If you’re stuck at Albany Station waiting for a train, you may be glad that there’s a place with excellent food service just a few steps away.
I had heard about an interesting artifact in railroad history at the Albany yard of the Portland & Western. Looking for it Saturday, I found it on a track near where Ferry Street runs into the east side of the yard.
Albany’s street trees were not on my mind on Jan. 28, but then I came across this broken specimen on southwest 12th Avenue, just west of Takena Street.
“I was wondering if you could find out some information,” Pamela Tackett Woitt asked. Yes, I could. And I did.
Every few days, somebody on Facebook or Nextdoor asks what’s happening at the Albany site of the Mega Foods supermarket that closed in 2017. These people have not been following this blog, or they forgot what they read.
At the risk of seeming repetitive, here’s another look from Albany’s Periwinkle Park toward Periwinkle Elementary School, taken Sunday.
A smarter way to create more housing
In Oregon’s quest for more affordable housing, building on vacant or underused land inside cities makes far more sense that expanding urban growth boundaries to gobble up farmland.
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