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Every time I see this fence on the Albany-Santiam Canal, I’m reminded of the Town Center Plan the city council adopted in 1995. The barbed wire is a sign of one of the unfulfilled hopes that the plan contained.
How does this sound like as an advertisement for a property for sale: Has pest damage or dry rot, needs a new roof, is covered with lead-based paint; the main floor beams may need shoring up, the pipe to the sewer main is “reverse grade” (which sounds like it runs uphill), the basement lacks a way […]
One main appeal of marijuana for medical use, I would imagine, is that it is NOT part of the system of officially approved and hugely expensive medications. It has not become another profit center for Big Pharma. Albany City Councilman Floyd Collins suggested last week that medical pot advocates should work to get the substance […]
Oregon has not elected a Republican governor since Vic Atiyeh won his second term in 1982. Dennis Richardson hopes to end the GOP drought this year. In Albany Wednesday night, he spoke and answered questions. And from what I heard, I’d say he has a shot.
Albany Station gets a new path
More exciting infrastructure news: The last piece of Albany’s station project is about to fall into place. The Oregon Department of Transportation has awarded a contract for construction of a 600-foot path from the rail-and-transit hub to the other side of the Pacific Boulevard viaduct and the vicinity of Swanson Park.
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