News – Page 370 – Hasso Hering

Paddle access? Yes, but it’s not easy

Written May 17th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

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The state parks department has been planning for years to build a paddlers’ access on the Luckiamute River in Polk County, and maybe this is the year it finally gets done. In the meantime, though, boaters do have a way to get their small craft in the water, as the video shows.

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Tags: Luckiamute Natural Area, Luckiamute Paddlers' Access, Luckiamute River, Oregon State Parks

Crash: A chance to test NA detour

Written May 16th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

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As you can see above, Pacific Power crew members worked Saturday afternoon to replace a power pole on North Albany Road. The road had been closed since Saturday morning. A worker manning the roadblock at the south end of the work zone told me that a trailer had come loose and slammed into the pole by the […]

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Tags: Albany Public Works, Emery & Sons, Gibson Hill Road, North Albany Road, power pole crash

Ivory bill: Let’s create another crime

Written May 14th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

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The Oregon ivory bill, you will not be surprised to learn, is alive and well and on its way to becoming law. It’s an example of the majority party’s tendency to create new crimes out of transactions that until now are legal under Oregon law because they do Oregon no harm.

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Tags: ivory, Oregon legislature, rhino horn, SB 913

Albany asks that trains be funded

Written May 13th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

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Whether letters to legislators get results probably depends on whether legislators are inclined to do in the first place what the letters request. So Albany’s plea to fully fund Amtrak’s Cascade passenger trains may do no good, but it can’t hurt.

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Tags: Albany City Council, Albany Station, Csacade trains, ODOT, Oregon legislature, passenger rail

No end in Millersburg power battle

Written May 12th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

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The fight over Millersburg’s proposed forced takeover of Pacific Power’s electric business in town will continue for at least the next several months. Council members Darrin Lane, Jim Lepin and Clayton Wood, the longtime mayor, on Tuesday voted to put the power takeover before the voters.

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Tags: ATI, ATI Wah Chang, Millersburg, Paciic Power

Pot issue still occupies mayor, council

Written May 11th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

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Albany Mayor Sharon Konopa is determined to keep marijuana shops — medical and otherwise — at least 300 feet from residential zones, and she seems to be counting on three council members to help her do that. What’s hard to see is how this matters much when starting July 1, all adults in Oregon will be entitled to […]

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Tags: Albany City Council, Canna Kitchen, marijuana, Mayor Konopa, Measure 91

Station-Swanson link: the last piece

Written May 11th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

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For a few weeks now, a contractor for ODOT has been building a new walking or “multi-use” link between Albany Station and Swanson Park underneath the Pacific Boulevard overpass. As the last piece of the depot renovation it’s a welcome development, even though it also makes you wonder about transportation priorities.

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Tags: Albany Station, HP Civil, ODOT, Pacific viaduct, Swanson Park