Bicycling

Up for yet another train-watching episode?

Written October 22nd, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 6 responses.

You’d think that sooner or later, I’d get tired of watching trains go by. But as you can see, that day has not yet come.

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Tags: freight trains, Portland & Western, Railroads, watching trains rail fans

If you like trains, here’s something for you

Written October 20th, 2021 by Hasso Hering

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There’s a little paved path across the old Oregon Electric Railway tracks at Burkhart Street in Albany. It’s on one of my bike routes through town, and I spent a few minutes there on October 8, trying to decipher the lettering that graffiti artists had left on the cars.

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Tags: Albany crossings, Burkhart Street, pedestrian crossings, Portland & Western, rail crossings, Railroads

Cumberland move now set for Sunday

Written October 13th, 2021 by Hasso Hering

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All the t’s seem to have been crossed and the i’s dotted now, so the move of the former Cumberland Church in Albany is set for Sunday, Oct. 17.

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Tags: cumberland church, historic Albany, historic church, moving buildings

On the riverfront: Treatment for opioid addicts

Written October 8th, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 3 responses.

Based on a notation on a remodeling permit, I reported in April that an “outpatient addiction treatment facility” was going into the historic Avery Mill Building on the Albany riverfront. Today I found out a little more.

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Tags: Acadia Healthcare, Albany downtown, Albany riverfront, Avery Mill Building, historic building, opioid use disorder program, treatment center

Restroom outside depot: Still in the works

Written October 4th, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 4 responses.

When I passed Albany Station on my bike ride Saturday, I remembered the talk some time ago about building a public restroom outside the city’s depot building. Whatever happened to that idea?

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Tags: Albany Station, Amtrak, Federal Transit Administration, ODOT, public restrooms, TRAIN STATION

City’s public EV charger about to open

Written September 28th, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 3 responses.

You may be surprised to learn, as I was, that this is National Drive Electric Week. Sophie Dykast at City Hall mentioned it when she told me that Albany’s first city-sponsored electric vehicle charging station will open to the public tomorrow, at 8:30 Wednesday morning.

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Tags: CARA, downtown Albany, electric charging station, EV chargers, Pacific Power, Sophie Dykast

Another look before the river takes them

Written September 26th, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 3 responses.

Albany resident Nate Vanek has been busy this summer, adding stick sculptures to a gravel bar in the Willamette River. Let’s take another look at them before the river comes up and wipes them out.

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Tags: folk art, gravel bar art, Nate Vanek, stick sculptures, Willamette River