On this election day in 2024, everybody is going to be interested in how it went and won’t be looking here. So let me report on something slightly less significant.
There’s a drive-up ballot box on the back side of the Linn County Courthouse in Albany. For a little while there on Monday night, it was a busy place.
Here’s an apparent innovation in pavement markings: a double white line with chevrons denoting the bike lane on the section of Albany’s Queen Avenue that was repaved last month.
It was raining but still light Saturday afternoon when I went on a short bike ride to take advantage of daylight saving time for the last time in 2024.
Quite a bit of damage has been done at Albany’s Monteith Riverpark since it was reopened in July after more than a year of reconstruction. The city has deployed its camera trailer at the park to try to prevent any more.
A Pacific Power contractor is working on undergrounding electric wires along a section of Water Avenue on the Albany riverfront. Ratepayers in Albany can expect to get the bill, but the amount is not yet clear.
4-2 vote OKs change on Grand Prairie
Residents south of Grand Prairie Road just learned what people elsewhere in Albany learned before: You can’t rely on comprehensive plans or zoning to keep your neighborhood composed of only single-family homes.
Tags: Albany planning, Grand Prairie Road, housing, zone change, zoning