HASSO HERING

A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

Fitting the pavers on Albany’s ‘plaza street’

Written July 5th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

When the contractor on Albany’s Waterfront Project started building the new “plaza street” on April 14, the city expected the closure of that section of Water Avenue to end in mid-June. The work has taken longer than that.


It’s the season for lemonade stands

Written July 4th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

The calendar says it’s summer. Another name for that is lemonade-stand season. Or that’s what it was in days gone by.


Wondering about a big empty parking lot

Written July 1st, 2025 by Hasso Hering

For the past few weeks the vast parking lot in front of 635 Pacific Blvd. in Albany has stood empty. On a bike ride last week I wondered what happened to the power sports business that occupied what had been the West Albany Safeway store back in the day.


Albany budgets for clearing Waverly Lake

Written June 28th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

Unwanted plant growth in Waverly Lake is making its annual summertime comeback, and the Albany parks department will deal with the problem as it did the last two years.


Forget ‘multi-use;’ install lane markers

Written June 26th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

As someone who occasionally rides a bike across the Willamette River on Highway 20, I was interested in the news that ODOT is willing to spend money to study the idea of a “multi-use path” on the Lyon Street Bridge.


Where (not) to take an old mattress

Written June 24th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

What are you supposed to do with a used old mattress you no longer want? Leaving it on Albany’s Dave Clark Riverfront Path is not recommended.


On the riverfront: Fencing, paving, timing

Written June 23rd, 2025 by Hasso Hering

The contractor building the “plaza street” part of Albany’s Waterfront Project still hopes to finish the first two blocks in time for the first of this summer’s “River Rhythms” concerts in Monteith Riverpark. That’s the word from City Hall.


 
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