
As you may have gathered by now, I have a thing for trains. So when the gates at a railroad crossing go down just as I get there on the bike, I welcome the delay so I can watch. Or try to get a video, like this one: This freight came through Albany a few […]
Tags: Albany railroad town, freight trains, railroad crossings, Railroads, Union Pacific
Coffin Butte rejection: Appeal is pending
On a bike ride Thursday afternoon I looked west toward the Coffin Butte Landfill from Oak Grove Drive in North Albany. Whatever happened to the controversial proposal to expand the landfill and cover up Coffin Butte Road, which the county’s planning commission denied on Dec. 7?
Tags: Benton commissioners, Benton County Planning, Coffin Butte landfill, Republic Services, waste disposal