Reader Brian Lee contributed this report on Aug. 1: Glad that you posted an update on Truax Island (June 14, 2013). I went there this afternoon since I’d never explored the park, though I’d driven by several times. Right away, I noticed the ‘Truax Island’ sign was missing below the Willamette Greenway sign for the northbound traffic […]
If you live in the Willamette Valley and hear far-off rumbling during the night, it might be men working. Or women. They are driving combines to get the grass seed harvested before the weather turns. Grass seed production is a big deal in the valley, though prices have been depressed in recent years. The crop’s farm gate […]
As you can see in this video, the Portland & Western’s project to build a new rail link in Albany remains stalled at Main Street, where the track stops. The idea is to connect the railroad’s Millersburg yard with the Toledo Branch line so freights coming across the Willamette River bridge no longer have to enter the Union […]
Unless it gets miraculously revived, a bill to raise more state revenue has died in the Oregon Senate because of Republican opposition. That’s just as well. Because what the Democrats wanted to do was to raise taxes on senior citizens who are sick, on a certain range of businesses, and on smokers, many of whom […]
As I’ve ridden around parts of Oregon on my bike, I’ve often wondered what exactly I was seeing. And maybe you, too, wish that there was a little more information available to the casual passerby, not just to satisfy our curiosity but also to enhance general knowledge of the world around us. Well, the other […]
It’s taken a lot longer than expected for three vintage warplanes to be displayed at the Albany Municipal Airport. But two of them sit there now, looking a little as though they’ve been through a crash. It was in March 2007 that Dick Ebbert, the city’s economic development director and airport manager — and a Marine Corps […]
On a recent ride I couldn’t help but notice this row of unusual — at least to me — plants at a nursery in the northeast corner of Linn County. It looks like kind of a palm tree to me. Nobody was around to ask. If anybody knows what these things are, please send me an email. From Rynni Henderson, via […]
