An announcement from the Oregon Department of Transportation prompted me to take yet another look at the electric-vehicle charging station the City of Albany had installed downtown.
A smarter way to create more housing
Written February 9th, 2024 by Hasso Hering
In Oregon’s quest for more affordable housing, building on vacant or underused land inside cities makes far more sense that expanding urban growth boundaries to gobble up farmland.
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Tags: Columbus and First, East First Avenue, Governor Kotek, housing, land use, legislature, urban growth boundaries
Tags: Columbus and First, East First Avenue, Governor Kotek, housing, land use, legislature, urban growth boundaries
Ziply Fiber working to hook up Albany
Written January 30th, 2024 by Hasso Hering
A company named Ziply Fiber is setting up a web of fiberoptic cables in Albany. For the last couple weeks or so contractors have been working on hanging the company’s overhead lines in the neighborhood on both sides of Broadway Street.
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Brick pavers added to Water Avenue
Written December 5th, 2023 by Hasso Hering
On Monday this week, patrolling the Albany riverfront on my bike as usual, I took a look at the work being done on Water Avenue at Thurston Street.
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Tags: Albany riverfront, brick intersections, Thurston and Montgomery, Water Avenue, Waterfront Project
Tags: Albany riverfront, brick intersections, Thurston and Montgomery, Water Avenue, Waterfront Project
At Talking Water Gardens, a cleanup job
Written November 13th, 2023 by Hasso Hering
It must have taken a lot of scrubbing or sanding, or both, to get one of the wooden footbridges at Talking Water Gardens back to looking the way it should.
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November at Waverly Lake: No aerators yet
Written November 6th, 2023 by Hasso Hering
Waverly Lake in Albany looked calm and mostly clear when I went past last Friday. I was looking for the aerators and fountain that were supposed to be installed after the lake was cleared of algae in August.
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Still boarded up but not forgotten
So what’s new with the dwelling at 329 Pine St. S.E., which the City of Albany posted as a “derelict structure” two summers ago? That’s what I was wondering when I passed the place on a bike ride on June 28.
Tags: 29 Pine, code enforcement, Derelict structure, Pine Street, railroad tracks