HASSO HERING

A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

Forget ‘multi-use;’ install lane markers

Written June 26th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

As someone who occasionally rides a bike across the Willamette River on Highway 20, I was interested in the news that ODOT is willing to spend money to study the idea of a “multi-use path” on the Lyon Street Bridge.


Council rejects top bid, wants more money

Written June 25th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

Wanting more money, the Albany City Council Wednesday turned down a company’s offer to buy three vacant city-owned lots so the business could expand.


Where (not) to take an old mattress

Written June 24th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

What are you supposed to do with a used old mattress you no longer want? Leaving it on Albany’s Dave Clark Riverfront Path is not recommended.


On the riverfront: Fencing, paving, timing

Written June 23rd, 2025 by Hasso Hering

The contractor building the “plaza street” part of Albany’s Waterfront Project still hopes to finish the first two blocks in time for the first of this summer’s “River Rhythms” concerts in Monteith Riverpark. That’s the word from City Hall.


Coming on Seventh: A ‘crisis stabilization’ center

Written June 22nd, 2025 by Hasso Hering

About year from now, if everything goes according to plan, people in a situation that would normally bring the cops may get help instead at a new center Linn County plans to open on Seventh Avenue across from Albany General Hospital.


A closed meeting to deliberate sale of lots?

Written June 21st, 2025 by Hasso Hering

The Albany City Council will hold a public hearing on June 25 before possibly selling three surplus properties near the corner of Ninth Avenue and Jackson Street, close to the Helping Hands homeless shelter and the Pacific Boulevard overpass.


Road taxes: What the majority’s bill will cost

Written June 20th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

We all have heard vague estimates of the jaw-dropping increases in road taxes Democrats in the Oregon legislature are poised to pass. Now, we have a more definite idea how much more costly living in Oregon will become.


 
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