The old oaks cut down at the Lowe’s construction site in Albany are not going to waste. Instead their material will help young people in Albany high school woodshop classes learn new skills, and some of it may become sturdy furniture.
How would bridge toll work?
Written November 8th, 2013 by Hasso Hering
The Oregon legislature may be asked in February to approve a plan to build the Columbia River Crossing in Portland without Washington state’s help. There are many complicated parts to this issue, and for downstate motorists who cross into Washington only occasionally, the question of tolling is of particular interest.
Albany news: Woodland Square gets boost
Written November 8th, 2013 by Hasso Hering
Big news for an Albany neighborhood: Woodland Square, an urban renewal project supported by CARA, has won state approval of the tax credits it needed to go ahead. The project will replace the trailer park at Salem Avenue and Pine Street with a 54-unit apartment complex. Construction is expected to start in June 2014, the […]
Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany urban renewal, CARA, Innovative Housing Inc., Woodland Square
Tags: Albany urban renewal, CARA, Innovative Housing Inc., Woodland Square
The slow study of fast trains
Written November 7th, 2013 by Hasso Hering
Planning for more and faster passenger rail service in the Willamette Valley, a process governed by the National Environmental Policy Act, is going much slower than hoped for when it started. It’s like turtles planning a route for hares. Slow or not, there’s plenty of interest in the work, as Thursday’s open house in Albany showed. It was intended as […]
Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: alternative rail alignments, National Environmental Policy Act, open house, Oregon Passenger Rail Project
Tags: alternative rail alignments, National Environmental Policy Act, open house, Oregon Passenger Rail Project
After bond defeat, a prudent council action
Written November 7th, 2013 by Hasso Hering
Some voters in Albany will think the majority of the city council is tone deaf. The people vote on a $20.3 million bond issue for a new police station and downtown fire station, and by Tuesday night 5,048 of them, a majority of those voting, have said no. Twenty-four hours later, five council members (only Rich Kellum dissents […]
Posted in: Commentary
Tags: Albany City Council, bond issue election, downtown fire station, property acquisition
Tags: Albany City Council, bond issue election, downtown fire station, property acquisition
Albany on pot dispensaries: Wait and see
Written November 6th, 2013 by Hasso Hering
Albany won’t jump into trying to prohibit medical marijuana dispensaries once they become legal under state law next spring, at least not right away. The city council Wednesday went along with advice it got from City Attorney Jim Delapoer to wait until legal questions about what cities can do under a new state law are […]
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Motorcycle cops again?
Is the Albany Police Department reviving its motorcycle patrols? That’s what I wondered on Friday when I was driving into town and followed a cop on a motorbike on North Albany Road. But, alas, it isn’t so.
Tags: Albany police, motorcycle officers