These are the last days of Albany’s former Cumberland Presbyterian Church at its historic site. So if you want to refresh your memories of how it fit into the neighborhood, better take a look before it’s too late.
The Albany City Council Monday voted quickly and unanimously to approve a settlement of a lawsuit the city filed four years ago over the failure of a system at the city’s new sewage treatment plant.
Albany’s public art project at the south entrance to downtown, installed in December 2020, may get some enhancements of the grounds around it before it is formally “unveiled.” But the timing is uncertain.
It was on the evening of Aug. 18, 2019, a warm summer day, that a fire all but destroyed the one-story house at 1027 Seventh Ave. S.E. For almost two years the ruined dwelling sat there surrounded by debris, but now the lot has been completely cleared of the structure and otherwise cleaned up.
If you wonder why our highway problems in Oregon don’t seem to get solved faster, one reason may be that the Department of Transportation has an “action plan” and what the action plan says.
The population of Albany grew a little faster in the last few years than the official estimates had shown. That’s one of the conclusions to be drawn from the local results of the 2020 U.S. Census.
Having failed, big white oak had to go
A big old white oak, maybe one of the biggest in Albany, had to come down after being damaged last winter, and this week it did.
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