Albany’s Water Avenue is a gift for rail fans like me. The old Oregon Electric track runs down the middle of the street for seven blocks, and right next to it for 14 more, giving us a close look at train operations. And sometimes a different sort of rig. For residents on Water this is […]
St. Anne Orthodox Church has given up plans to build a church and fellowship hall on Gibson Hill Road, and the congregation’s property there is for sale.
Last time I saw the inside of the former Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Albany it was a jumbled mess, used for storage and not much else. As the video below shows, on Saturday the inside was still old and worn, but picked up and clean.
In case you have not noticed, it’s getting close to spider season in western Oregon. But according to what you can learn online, having spiders around is nothing to worry about.
Albany’s city planning division is reviewing a plan by Washington Federal to open a branch on a vacant lot east of Lyon Street, but it will be only temporary.
Thanks very much for the big raise, but it’s too much. That essentially is what Albany City Manager Peter Troedsson told the city council Wednesday.
What’re those? Answer: Look it up!
I couldn’t remember what the tennis-ball-sized structures in these oaks were called, or indeed what they were. So I looked them up.
Tags: gall wasps, Oak gals, Oregon Department of Forestry