If you walk past 230 E. Second Avenue in Albany and look down, you might notice an inscription in the concrete. It means something to someone, but until last week I didn’t know what or to whom.
Riding the bike along Riverside Drive southwest of Albany the other day, I could not help but be impressed by the massive amount of grass straw that’s stacked on a field south of the road.
Without a drone’s eye view, it’s hard to see how the contractors are coming along with rebuilding Albany’s Monteith Riverpark. To get a glimpse of the work in progress, you have to climb along the bank on the outside of the chain link fence on the park’s Calapooia River side.
A reader noticed construction activity right next to the southbound Albany freeway off-ramp that feeds into Airport Road.
What has happened lately at Franklin Avenue and Airport Road in Albany? Nothing, that’s what. The 6-acre site where 11 houses and more than 40 apartments have been approved is covered by dead grass and the remaining oaks.
Albany is about to launch the long-awaited expansion of the city’s bus routes and schedule.
Watching you: Eyes above downtown corner
Police-type lights were flashing blue and red in the sky over downtown Albany Thursday. On a bike ride Thursday night, I saw them from blocks away. What was going on?
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