The proposed demolition of three old Albany houses remains hung up at the state Land Use Board of Appeals because of procedural objections by an opponent.
Tags: Bernadette Niederer, Carrie Richter, demolition, Fourth and Calapooia, LUBA, Mark and Tina Siegner, Monteith Historic District
A memorial to a troubled man
Dozens of times over the last few months, I’ve ridden the bike past a roadside memorial where the Cox Creek Path comes out on Salem Avenue. Wind and weather have reduced the shrine to a small pile of rubbish, but you can still tell for whom it was put up.
Tags: Albany police, Donald Keith Sawyer, roadside memorial, Union Pacific