City engineers in Albany are planning a $13 million sewer project they hope will prevent overflows into the Willamette River during heavy wintertime rainstorms. It will also force a change in the riverfront Dave Clark Path and, likely as not, cut into new pavement on Water Avenue.
Nothing had been heard lately about banning plastic bags in Albany — until a group of Memorial Middle School students showed up at the city council’s meeting Wednesday night.
The first apartment complex to be built in North Albany will be ready for tenants this summer. That’s the word from Charles Weathers of Salem, the developer of the four buildings with 12 units each.
It won’t be long now, judging by the “Now Hiring” posters inside the doors of the forthcoming North Albany IGA supermarket and Ace hardware store.
So what’s with those wooden frames, square and sturdy as they look, around the newly planted trees in Albany’s downtown streetscape reconstruction?
The security gate at 230 Lyon St. downtown was installed to keep trespassers out, and now the building owner is asking the city council for permission to let the doors swing out. Here we have a reminder of two things Albany has plenty of — vagrancy and rules.
At least it’s nice to look at
Pretty spiffy, you have to admit, looking at the newly reconstructed intersection of Water Avenue and Hill Street on Albany’s riverfront. But functional? Maybe not so much.
Tags: Hill and Water, railroad crossing protection