No, that’s not a new road down to the Calapooia River that the Linn County Road Department is building here. It’s a project to build up a well-compacted area where Pacific Power can set new poles.
People walking or riding along Albany’s riverfront Dave Clark Path now have a couple of helpful new clues about the background of one prominent old building there. It had something to do with cows.
Among all the possible topics of interest or concern, the Albany City Council’s arrangements for hearing from people at meetings are probably near the bottom of your list. Still, I bring up the subject again as someone who watches the contortions people have to go through.
Once again waiting at the Queen Avenue railroad crossing in Albany last week, I was wondering — and who wouldn’t be? — about when the Portland & Western would finally begin to use its new track nearby. On Tuesday I got news from Kevin Haugh, the railroad’s general manager in Salem. And it sounded good.
Now we’ve all heard of another cases of a passenger plane being diverted because of trouble among the passengers. This kind of thing has become more common, and the reason is that like sheep, people keep subjecting themselves to inhuman conditions on planes.
A boat, they say, is mostly a hole in the water into which to pour money. At times the Santiam Canal must seem like that to the city of Albany.
Air guns, police and what can happen
California is trying to do something different about look-alike guns that are sometimes mistaken for the real thing, which has led to tragic results. But even if Oregon did the same, it would not prevent incidents like the police shooting and wounding of a suspect near Albany last week.
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