One of these four police officers is likely to become the chief of the Albany Police Department after Mario Lattanzio retires in little more than two months.
Council gives church a porta-pot permit
Written November 21st, 2019 by Hasso Hering
Albany City Council discussions about the portable toilet outside a downtown church are probably over — for one year, at least.
Council hears long-distance plea on trucks
Written November 21st, 2019 by Hasso Hering
In an unusual move, the Albany City Council Wednesday listened to a disembodied voice on the telephone asking it to oppose bigger trucks on the nation’s roads.
Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: americans for Modern Transportation, Bigger trucks, Coalition Against Bigger Trucks, Peter DeFazio
Tags: americans for Modern Transportation, Bigger trucks, Coalition Against Bigger Trucks, Peter DeFazio
All about Albany’s Cathey Creek
Written November 20th, 2019 by Hasso Hering
Among Albany’s waterways, there is Cathey Creek in the southwest part of town. It’s not big, but for a while this year it was blamed — unjustly it turned out — for complicating the construction of the new tennis courts at West Albany High.
Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany creeks, Albany waterways, Cathey Creek, GAPS projects, West's tennis courts
Tags: Albany creeks, Albany waterways, Cathey Creek, GAPS projects, West's tennis courts
An Albany corner that needs more light
Written November 18th, 2019 by Hasso Hering
“Have you ever noticed,” the email from Rachel La Brasseur asked on Nov. 11, “how dark it is at night at Grand Prairie and Geary Street, a pretty major intersection in South Albany?”
How state intends to fix Hwy. 20 junctions
Written November 18th, 2019 by Hasso Hering
ODOT is inching ahead with plans for safety upgrades on the Albany-Corvallis Highway, and here is the agency’s concept for improving the junctions at Granger Road and Independence Highway.
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Tags: Albany-Corvallis Highway, Granger and Independence junctions, Highway 20, Midway Farms, ODOT
Tags: Albany-Corvallis Highway, Granger and Independence junctions, Highway 20, Midway Farms, ODOT
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When autumn leaves refuse to leave
This just in, a small item from the Department of Petty Annoyances. As you can see, Republic Services has come by and emptied the yard debris bin, as it does in Albany, without fail, every other week.
Tags: autumn leaves, Republic Services, yard debris