How come, a reader wanted to know, “the school zone signs on Spring Hill for Fairmount went up again last week after being gone for two to three years.” The question about the change in North Albany came in over the weekend, and now the answer is at hand.
As you can see and hear, the cleanup continues at North Albany County Park after the harvest of scores of ailing and dead Douglas firs. Meanwhile, Benton County is getting ready to unveil its concepts for updating the 22-acre park and dealing with the nearby 10-acre wooded parcel newly donated by the developer of the adjacent Albany Heights subdivision.
This old house near the entrance to Albany’s Bryant Park is in pretty poor shape. Now the owners of the triplex rental plan to fix it up, get rid of some unauthorized alterations, and restore it as much as possible to the way it may have looked after it was built more than a century ago.
Albany has been a railroad town since the century before the last one. Residents get plenty of chances to watch trains go by, as I did again on Wednesday at the Burkhart Street crossing for pedestrians and bikes. The train was short, but it still had something to say to watchers like me.
The conversion of the Old Book House in Albany’s Willamette Neighborhood is just about complete. At least that’s the way it looks to me, from the outside.
Republic Services has a deal for the disposal company’s Albany customers: We’ll raise your rates $3 a month, and in return we’ll pick up your yard debris every week, instead of biweekly as now, and you can put food waste in with the yard clippings if you want. At a work session Monday, most of the city […]
Structural issues close downtown place
This restaurant in downtown Albany is likely to stay closed until problems with its building are sorted out. The city building department has told the owner he has the choice of repairing the structure or tearing it down.
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