For the second time this year, the Albany City Council was asked Monday to do something about the 20 mph school zone on Waverly Drive east of the South Albany High School football field.
On the coast, a landmark is gone
Written November 4th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
If they haven’t been to the central coast for a month and go there now, Albany visitors will discover that a landmark, the building housing the former Landmark restaurant in Yachats, has disappeared.
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Tags: Beulah's Sea View, coastal landmarks, Oregon coast, The Landmark, Yachats
Tags: Beulah's Sea View, coastal landmarks, Oregon coast, The Landmark, Yachats
Albany’s demolition decision appealed
Written November 2nd, 2018 by Hasso Hering
Pretty much at the last minute, an appeal has been filed against the Albany City Council’s decision to allow the demolition of three dilapidated old houses in the Monteith Historic District.
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Tags: Albany demolition, Bernadette Niederer, demolition of old houses, LUBA, Mark Siegner, Monteith Historic District
Tags: Albany demolition, Bernadette Niederer, demolition of old houses, LUBA, Mark Siegner, Monteith Historic District
Voting: Why you can trust the count
Written November 1st, 2018 by Hasso Hering
Among the questions that keep coming up: Could a hacker manipulate and falsify the digital vote count in our elections? The short answer, at least in Linn County, is no.
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Tags: election hacks, Linn County Clerk's Office, Oregon elections, Voting
Tags: election hacks, Linn County Clerk's Office, Oregon elections, Voting
Time change: Stuck with a dumb idea
Written October 31st, 2018 by Hasso Hering
Another pointless clock change is coming up Sunday, and it made me wonder what’s going on, timewise, in the rest of the world.
Tough choice: Stop or roll through?
Written October 30th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
Like other residential districts of Albany before it, the Willamette Neighborhood now has sprouted a crop of new stop signs to slow down traffic. This may work, or it may not.
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Tags: Albany traffic, Front Street, speed control, stop controls, stop signs, Willamette neighborhood
Tags: Albany traffic, Front Street, speed control, stop controls, stop signs, Willamette neighborhood
Deprived of a chance to vote? Not so fast
Written October 29th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
Facebook last week reverberated with a complaint from a Lebanon mother that a particular set of circumstances resulted in her son being deprived of a chance to vote. I looked into it, and the upshot is that he can vote after all if he wants.
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Tags: inactive voters, Linn County Clerk, Linn elections, Oregon voting, signature match, voting by mail
Tags: inactive voters, Linn County Clerk, Linn elections, Oregon voting, signature match, voting by mail
Smooth riding on new subdivision streets
Written October 28th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
The streets appear to be mostly finished in a new subdivision on the western edge of Albany’s Broadway Neighborhood. I tried them out on the bike last week, and they are fine, as you would expect.
Parking lot closed for music and beer
Written October 26th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
There was some grumbling on Facebook that an entire downtown Albany parking lot and adjacent street were blocked for a special event. But the closure, planned since February, had the support of the Albany Downtown Association.
Council fends off proposed riverbank gift
The developer of Edgewater Village wants to donate three parcels of riverbank to the city of Albany. Most of the land is too steep and dangerous to be used, so why would the city want it?
Tags: Edgewater, George Diamond, riverbank donation, Willamette riverbank