The owners of Heritage Mall have asked the city of Albany to approve their plan to subdivide the acreage and break the mall property into five separate lots.
Carnegie upgrade: Windows that work
Written December 19th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
There’s something noteworthy about the many windows in Albany’s downtown Carnegie library: Most of them didn’t work, but because of a project funded by private money, now they do.
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Albany slows in single-home building
Written December 17th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
Home building in Albany has slowed a little this year just as the Oregon legislature is trying to encourage more housing to be built. And the legislative pressure for more may increase next year.
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Tolls could make congestion worse
Written August 16th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
Oregon is preparing to impose tolls on two freeway segments in Portland as a way to reduce congestion. From the standpoint of people in the Willamette Valley who occasionally have to drive to the Portland airport, let’s hope the tolls won’t make congestion worse.
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Getting away from it all: Try this lake
Written June 30th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
What can I say? Leaving Albany briefly behind, I took to the wilds of Upper Klamath Lake with my son Dave. And I can report that the canoe trail there provides an experience that is hard to beat.
Sign wavers: Will machines take over?
Written June 15th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
[youtube video=”G9S7FY1EyuI”] With too much time on my hands, I scanned the revised Albany sign code that city officials and their consultants have been laboring for months to produce. Hard as I looked, I could find no mention of the latest in business promotions: robot sign wavers like the one above.
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Before I forget: Checking on the sea
[youtube video=”CS0WDFsYuXc”] When things get slow, go to the beach and check on the level of the ocean. That’s my motto. One of them, anyway.
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