A week and a half after being installed, the school zone lights on North Albany Road are back in the news — well, what passes for news on this site, anyway.
The Benton County Planning Commission voted Tuesday to deny a conditional use permit to build a gymnasium and parking lot on Powers Avenue in a semi-rural North Albany neighborhood.
If you’ve tried to drive near Albany General Hospital lately, you already know about this: The traffic pattern is messed up because Elm Street is being repaved.
The future of Albany’s Talking Water Gardens remains uncertain this spring. But if a claim made in a court filing is true, there’s a potential pathway to resume their use as part of the wastewater treatment plant.
Last July the Albany City Council rejected an offer of $125,000 for three blighted lots at the corner of Ninth Avenue and Jackson Street. The properties seem to have been forgotten since.
The Venetian theater is a downtown Albany landmark that I pass almost every day without paying it any attention. Then, last week, I looked up its history.
The sound of the historic Cumberland bell
Saturday was another milestone in the long and continuing saga of the transformation of the former Cumberland Church in Albany into the Cumberland Community Events Center.
Tags: Cumberland, Historic buildings, historic restoration, Santiam and Pine