Thursday was a cloudless but very windy day on the central Oregon coast, as the noise on this video proves. Hardly anybody was on the beaches, which is not surprising for a weekday in early April. Every time I walk across the sand left dry by the low tide, I’m reminded of the increasing agitation […]
I’ve known Mark and Andrea Ylen for years, starting when we all worked for the Albany Democrat-Herald, where Mark today is the photo editor. So I was delighted when Andrea and Mark, with their three children in tow, were called to the front of the council chambers at City Hall Wednesday night to be recognized […]
Albany may get by without a one-year ban on medical marijuana dispensaries, but the city council is dragging out the decision for another couple of weeks. On Wednesday night, Mayor Sharon Konopa broke a 3-3 council deadlock and voted down a one-year city “moratorium” on allowing medical marijuana shops. But she vowed to ask for […]
The minor earthquakes in the Sherwood area and on Mount Hood are routine and nothing to worry about, according to scientists quoted in the news. But they remind us all that, as we’ve been warned countless times, the Big One is coming and we had better be prepared.
More exciting infrastructure news: The last piece of Albany’s station project is about to fall into place. The Oregon Department of Transportation has awarded a contract for construction of a 600-foot path from the rail-and-transit hub to the other side of the Pacific Boulevard viaduct and the vicinity of Swanson Park.
Albany’s proposed one-year ban on medical marijuana dispensaries is once again up in the air. The apparent reason: Councilor Bill Coburn (in the red shirt in the shot above) does not want to force Canna Kitchen out of business. A decision may be made at the city council’s regular meeting, which starts at 7:15 Wednesday […]
We should have listened to her
The longer Oregon and the country labor to carry out Obamacare, the more I wish that Betty Johnson and her compatriots had prevailed. Mrs. Johnson, who lives in Corvallis, has just been honored by Benton County with a public health service award, an honor she richly deserves for her lifelong work in helping older people. […]
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