Residents outside the Albany city limits would have to pay more than city taxpayers to get into the community pool at South Albany High School. That’s one of a long list of fee increases the city council considered Monday.
With library closed, rereading an old gem
Written July 3rd, 2020 by Hasso Hering
If you’re waiting for the public libraries in Albany to reopen, you’ll have to wait a bit longer. The wait may have driven you to your own supply of printed books, rereading old favorites or tackling long-ago gift books for yet another try. I had asked Eric Ikenouye, director of the Albany Public Libraries, when […]
CHANCE recovers a slice of Albany history
Written July 1st, 2020 by Hasso Hering
For nearly 30 years ending in the fall of 2015, at the corner of Third and Lyon in downtown Albany there was a restaurant named Pizza King. Turns out the name had historical roots, and those are now being recovered, not by chance but by CHANCE.
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Tags: CHANCE, Jeff Blackford, King Griff Building, Pizza King, Varitone Architecture
Tags: CHANCE, Jeff Blackford, King Griff Building, Pizza King, Varitone Architecture
‘Labor Temple’ will get a new name
Written June 30th, 2020 by Hasso Hering
The Albany Labor Temple hasn’t been called that for many years, and now its owners want to rename it for its origin more than a century ago. They intend to call it the Wood Apartments.
‘Under review,’ a project at Waverly School
Written June 27th, 2020 by Hasso Hering
On a leisurely ride I went past Waverly School on Columbus Street this week because I had seen the school mentioned in the “planning projects under review” by the Albany Planning Division. So what’s being planned?
A sure sign of summer at Waverly Lake
Written June 26th, 2020 by Hasso Hering
Now it’s summer in Albany. How do we know, other than from basking in warm sunshine? Because the paddle boats are back in operation at Waverly Lake.
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Albany’s oldest church building: What’s next?
What happens with Albany’s oldest remaining church building once CHANCE, the charity that owns it, moves to new quarters in the King Griff Building a couple of blocks to the west?
Tags: 238 Third S.E., Albany's oldest church, Jeff Blackford