If Albany voters eventually approve construction of a new police headquarters, it now looks as though it will be built on a site off Pacific Boulevard as originally planned. The police would rather stay where they are on Jackson Street, adjacent to the jail and Linn County Sheriff’s Office, but buying the land necessary for […]
While the world goes to hell — in Gaza, Ukraine, Iraq, Nigeria and who knows where else — let us busy ourselves with something quite local, mundane and above all peaceful: What’s the meaning of all that logging and earth-moving on the banks of the Calapooia at Queen Avenue?
There was good news and bad news — and then some more good news — in the latest announcement from ODOT concerning Oregon Highway 34 from Interstate 5 to the Corvallis Bypass.
See how relaxed these people look? They’re clapping and listening to the band that performed at Albany’s Monteith Riverpark on Monday evening. These Monday events are less well known than the Thursday night River Rhythms concerts at the same place. But they nevertheless have considerable appeal.
On a Sunday evening in July, we are looking south on Albany’s Broadalbin Street, and a pleasant view it is. The horizontal lines of stately buildings all point to the Linn County Courthouse four blocks away. And it looks like the prosperous center of a small American town. What we cannot see are trends that may threaten to make the image […]
Here we sit in Oregon, safe and undisturbed, watching the TV news and seeing footage of little boys and girls lying in hospital beds in Gaza. Some have horrible wounds, more or less bandaged up. The children were wounded in Israeli air strikes, attacks in which a reported 180 people have been killed and many more, including […]
Fraud alert or another scam?
It sounds like yet another scam making use of technology. Your cell phone buzzes and tells you that this is a text alert from the Bank of America ATM fraud prevention program. Do you recognize these three July 19 transactions, one at the Albany Regal Cinemas, another at a pharmacy and the third at a […]
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