You don’t need a fancy or expensive bike to experience the best of riding a bicycle. If it’s in reasonable shape, an old bike will do.
Sometimes you wonder why something is there. Take, for example, these concrete blocks at the extreme eastern end of Water Avenue in Albany.
On my bike ride to Millersburg Saturday, I happened to see, from a distance, railroad cars sitting under the giant crane at the Mid-Valley Intermodal Center, which otherwise has remained unused since it opened in December 2022.
A bike ride Saturday took me to the corner of Conser and Old Salem roads in Millersburg, where the Kinder Morgan pipeline company owns a pumping station and a former tank farm that stored petroleum products years ago. Now the tanks are gone.
For the last several weeks there has been a Republic Services dumpster sitting on the west side of Geary Street as you come out of Bowman Park. How much longer will it stay there?
Four days ago, someone asked on the website Nextdoor: “Does anyone know what is being constructed up on Northwest 24th near the Benton Woods roundabout?” I had wondered the same thing when a bike ride took me past this location in North Albany on April 8.
N. Albany SamFit reopening is coming up
It was last June that I stopped by SamFit in North Albany intending to do a story on when the place would reopen following a fire. Now Samaritan Health Services has announced the date: This coming Tuesday, April 30.
Tags: fire damage, fire repairs, renovation, Samaritan Health Services, SamFit North Albany