Until it is amended, Albany may have trouble with routine finances under the debt-limit charter amendment approved by voters this month. That was the gist of advice the city council got Wednesday night from Harvey Rogers, a renowned bond lawyer whose clients include the cities of Portland and Salem as well as several state agencies. […]
A quick visit to the E.E. Wilson Wildlife Area northwest of Albany on a pleasant spring day in March. The area’s paved and gravel roads without motor traffic make it an ideal place for an outing on your bike.
Commuting on North Albany Road may become easier after 2014, when the city of Albany plans to widen the section from Quarry Road south to the railroad tracks. The project, estimated to cost $2.98 million, calls for, among other things, sidewalks, a center turn lane, raising the bridge across Thornton Lake by two feet, building a separate pedestrian […]
It took a while — a month, actually — but Congressman Kurt Schrader has given me a response to questions about what kind of gun control measures he would support. In short, he seems to agree with Congressman Peter DeFazio, who said in a letter in February he doubted the U.S. House would consider bans on […]
If the other two candidates for Albany police chief are as good as Dan Hendrickson, the city will be in good shape no matter which of the three finalists eventually gets the job. Albany announced the finalists Monday. Hendricksen is a captain with the Corvallis police department. He has led National Guard troops from Oregon […]
Albany city planning officials have met with developers for Sportsman’s Warehouse, a nationwide sporting goods chain that has its eyes on space in the Albertsons shopping plaza off Waverly Drive. The planning department says no land use applications have yet been submitted, but the city has pending building permit requests for interior relocation and remodeling […]
Council tables coal train protest
Albany’s city council, to its credit, is not on record today against coal trains. On Wednesday night the council voted to table a resolution “to oppose the transport of coal through Albany.” Councilor Bessie Johnson’s motion to table called for the measure to come up again in two weeks, on April 10. She said she […]
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