The occasional obstacle makes riding Albany’s bike and walking paths more interesting, wouldn’t you say?
SnoTemp gets council’s support
Written December 15th, 2014 by Hasso Hering
The numbers and the timing are still unclear, but the Albany City Council is eager to to help pay for a share of the cost of repaving the northernmost segment of Lochner Road in order to help an adjoining cold-storage company expand.
Don’t try to justify torture
Written December 15th, 2014 by Hasso Hering
It’s distressing to hear conservatives on cable TV defend the idea that it is ever OK to torture prisoners. The term now is “enhanced interrogation techniques,” but the euphemism is far too vague. It covers everything from keeping prisoners isolated between interrogations to near-drowning or shackling people, naked, to the ceiling for hours at a time.
Cold storage and cold cash
Written December 13th, 2014 by Hasso Hering
You’re looking at a segment of Lochner Road in south Albany. It’s thinly paved but otherwise unimproved from this point north, and this apparently is a barrier to plans by SnoTemp, part of which you see on the left, to expand and also recruit a new fruit-processing plant. On Monday, this problem will be unloaded […]
Our weather: Better than elsewhere
Written December 12th, 2014 by Hasso Hering
Why is the weather so interesting to people, especially around here? Because it is potentially dangerous, because it affects everybody, and because it can change as radically as it did the last few days.
Thinking ahead to 2064
Written December 12th, 2014 by Hasso Hering
Albany now has a new time capsule that’s supposed to remain sealed — welded shut — until October 2064. What it doesn’t yet have is a place to put it until then.
Albany Albany City Council Albany council Albany downtown Albany Fire Department Albany housing Albany parks Albany Planning Commission Albany police Albany Post Office Albany Public Works Albany riverfront Albany schools Albany Station Albany streets Albany traffic Albany urban renewal apartments ARA Benton County bicycling bike lanes Bowman Park Bryant Park Calapooia River CARA climate change COVID-19 Cox Creek Crocker Lane cumberland church cycling Dave Clark Path DEQ downtown Albany Edgewater Village Ellsworth Street bridge Highway 20 homeless housing Interstate 5 land use Linn County Millersburg Monteith Riverpark North Albany ODOT Oregon coast Oregon legislature Pacific Power Portland & Western Queen Avenue Republic Services Riverside Drive Santiam Canal Scott Lepman Talking Water Gardens The Banks Tom Cordier Union Pacific urban renewal Water Avenue Waterfront Project Waverly Lake Willamette River
Copyright 2024. All Rights Reserved. Hasso Hering.
Website Serviced by Santiam Communications
Taming our anti-truck trestle
There may be a way to thwart Albany’s truck-crunching trestle, but it would cost something.
Tags: City of Albany streets, First Avenue trestle, truck-eating trestle