The Albany city staff is following through on a pledge made by Wes Hare, the city manager, in connection with the scheduled Nov. 5 bond election for a new police station and main fire hall. Before the city council put that $20.3 million bond on the ballot, Hare said he would recommend that approval of […]
This is kind of indelicate, so be warned. The Albany City Council, as you may have heard, has passed a couple of ordinances to give the police more enforcement tools against vagrants that cause trouble. One new city law outlaws open containers of alcohol in a public place. No problem with that. The other ordinance […]
Drivers who use Albany’s Water Avenue have waited for this development for a long time: Repairs on the railroad track running down the middle of the street are about to start and will be followed by restoration of the pavement itself. The city council on Aug. 14 awarded a $168,976 contract to Knife River Corp. […]
The Albany City Council has accepted the donation of more than 90 acres of undeveloped — and mostly unbuildable — land in the Oak Creek drainage of south Albany. The donation gives the city acreage that links parcels already owned by the city along the creek, an important reach of open space in close proximity to subdivisions […]
The candidacy of Albany’s Jo Rae Perkins for the U.S. Senate is a long shot, to put it mildly. There are likely to be other candidates for the Republican Senate nomination next year with more experience in elected office, better financing and more statewide name recognition. In the unlikely event she prevails over all of […]
Whether Governor Kitzhaber vetoes the Indian mascot bill or not — he has until Aug. 19 to decide — the affected schools might consider cutting through all the baloney on this issue on their own. To refresh your memory, the state Board of Education decided that schools with Indian names and mascots had to ditch […]
Shutting the public out
In Eugene, the police department is making a change in its radio system so that the public can no longer listen to its calls on scanners. Some other departments in Oregon and around the country have done the same, the Register-Guard reports, all in the interest of keeping criminals or suspects from knowing what the cops are […]
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