About year from now, if everything goes according to plan, people in a situation that would normally bring the cops may get help instead at a new center Linn County plans to open on Seventh Avenue across from Albany General Hospital.
The Albany City Council will hold a public hearing on June 25 before possibly selling three surplus properties near the corner of Ninth Avenue and Jackson Street, close to the Helping Hands homeless shelter and the Pacific Boulevard overpass.
We all have heard vague estimates of the jaw-dropping increases in road taxes Democrats in the Oregon legislature are poised to pass. Now, we have a more definite idea how much more costly living in Oregon will become.
It won’t be easy or quick to “vacate” — meaning to abandon and close — an offshoot of the Periwinkle Bikepath as recommended by the Albany Parks, Recreation and Tree Commission.
If you have business with the Linn County clerk this fall, regarding either elections or records, you’ll have to go to the Wheelhouse Building on the Albany riverfront instead of the courthouse downtown.
If you occasionally find it convenient to walk or ride your bike on the historic railroad right-of-way between Hill and Oak streets, you might want to use it more often and defend your right to do so.
On the riverfront: Fencing, paving, timing
The contractor building the “plaza street” part of Albany’s Waterfront Project still hopes to finish the first two blocks in time for the first of this summer’s “River Rhythms” concerts in Monteith Riverpark. That’s the word from City Hall.
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