It won’t be long now before photo-enforcement cameras will keep an eye on North Albany Road traffic at West Thornton Lake Drive.
When last we heard of Valliscor, the City of Albany had just approved the Corvallis-based company’s plans for building a chemical manufacturing plant on the east side of Ferry Street.
Trying to get a handle on the problem of stolen and abandoned shopping carts, Albany passed a law in 2008. The law was amended in 2021 and then, in a reorganization of the city code, passed again in 2022. What has been the result?
If you could follow Periwinkle Creek from south Albany all the way to its mouth, you would end up in Bowman Park on the Willamette River. But you can’t.
Let’s take a quick little tour of what might qualify as ground zero of Albany vandalism. Not many people go there, which is probably why it often looks the way it did on Thursday afternoon.
Dead trees crashing down across the Cox Creek Path in Albany and taking out sections of chain-link fencing — that’s getting to be a routine or at least recurring thing.
‘Middle housing’ project sprouts new sign
There’s a new sign by the side of Gibson Hill Road in North Albany. It signals that a planned 80-lot “middle housing” project is ready to go ahead and that its ownership has changed.
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