News – Page 119 – Hasso Hering

How’s our water supply holding up?

Written August 4th, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 6 responses.

The apparent low flow in the Albany-Santiam Canal made me wonder how our water supply was holding up this summer, which has been drier than usual and exceptionally warm. The word from the city of Albany is that we’re in pretty good shape but should conserve water when we can.

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Tags: Albany water supply, Albany-Santiam Canal, drought, North Santiam, South Santiam, water supply

Downtown pizza business still closed, in limbo

Written August 2nd, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 2 responses.

On the social media app Nextdoor, someone asked whether Ciddici’s Pizza in downtown Albany would ever reopen. I had wondered about the same thing and this week tried to find out. The short answer is: Who knows?

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Tags: Albany downtown, Ciddici's downtown, eviction notice, Hamid Siddiqui, historic depot, Oregon Electric Railway, Tim Siddiqui

Bridge completed 100 years ago: No big deal

Written August 2nd, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 5 responses.

Nobody is making a big deal of the 100th anniversary of the construction of the Albany railroad bridge across the Willamette River. That’s fitting, because when it was accomplished in 1921, the job made no splash in the papers of the time.

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Tags: 100-year-old bridge, 1921, Albany Democrat, Albany Evening Herald, Albany railroad bridge, Southern Pacific

New pickleball courts: Finished and open

Written July 31st, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 4 responses.

Two years after the Albany City Council approved their construction, new pickleball courts at Linn-Benton Community College are ready for play. While the college still has a sign saying the campus is closed to public use, City Manager Peter Troedsson says the courts are open.

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Tags: Albany parks and recreation, Linn-Benton Community College, North Santiam Paving, Pickleball

Why the red pavement? The answer is here

Written July 31st, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 2 responses.

A reader asked about the red sections of pavement on an Albany street. Why are they there, she wanted to know.

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Tags: Albany streets, chicanes, Marion Street, red intersections, traffic calming

One walnut tree versus eight townhouses

Written July 30th, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 14 responses.

On July 19, three members of the Albany Planning Commission objected to construction of eight single-family townhouses on Third Avenue downtown because it would take down a walnut tree in the corner of the site. On Monday the commission will get a chance to undo that action because, as it turns out, the city development […]

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Tags: 224 Third, Albany downtown, Albany housing, Albany Planning Commission, infill construction, Scott Lepman, townhouses, urban development