Albany and other Oregon towns above 50,000 are preparing to comply with a state order to designate “climate friendly areas.” All I can say is good luck.
There was a reason I parked at Waverly Park and started walking around, craning my neck and pointing my phone at the new signal installations on Pacific Boulevard, at Albany Avenue on one side and Airport Road on the other.
The former Hertz car lot at 520 Airport Road may be remodeled to sell Subaru automobiles.
There now is a chance of preventing algae from building up in Waverly Lake next year the way they did this year and in summers past.
Now that Eileen Hinckle has finished her new mural in Albany, it’s time to take another look at the completed work.
Monday’s meeting of the Albany Revitalization Agency was called to award a demolition contract for the former Wells Fargo branch downtown. It ended on a sour note when the chair, Councilwoman Bessie Johnson, formally accused member Dick Olsen of violating the secrecy of an executive session.
A ‘derelict structure’ along the tracks
For people on foot or on a bike, there’s a shortcut across the railroad tracks on Pine Street in Albany. If you take it, as I did again on Sunday, you pass a boarded-up house marked with a City of Albany notice: “Derelict Structure.”
Tags: 329 Pine S.E., Albany code, Derelict structure, maintenance code, Portland and Western Railroad