On the evening of Independence Day, Albany was unusually quiet, having celebrated with a River Rhythms concert and fireworks the night before. But in the riverside neighborhood around the north end of Oak Street, things were anything but quiet as I discovered on an evening ride around town. As the sign said and the video […]
In other news, if you’ve heard all you want to hear today about our independence, how about this: Some stop signs virtually invite drivers to run them because the signs are invisible from a distance.
Well, the Third, actually. Riding around Albany on Thursday, I noticed a somewhat unusual display of the Stars and Stripes on Broadway Street S.W.
This, as you have no doubt noticed, is the road-construction season. Let us take the occasion not to fume about the inevitable traffic delays but to acknowledge the remarkable degree of planning, coordination and execution on the part of the crews that these jobs require.
Benton County says most of the suggestions it has received so far about what to do with the old Bailey Branch railroad line can be arranged into five options. To my mind, the only ones that don’t make sense are to break up and sell off segments or to do nothing with the corridor until […]
It was four years ago this summer that the Oberto Sausage Co. closed the Albany plant it had bought from Smokecraft about a dozen years before. But as you can see, the old signs are still up. I wonder if any out-of-towners passing by on Pacific Boulevard see the sign and stop, hoping to load up […]
It’s summer, so paddle Waverly Lake
Pedaling past Waverly Lake on Saturday, I was glad to see that in this time of turmoil and change, one Albany tradition is being kept alive this summer. The paddle boats are out there again, and have been since the last week of June. The paddle craft have been available for rent on the pond for the last […]
Tags: Albany parks and recreation, Waverly Lake