Next time, the Albany City Council can probably count on at least three more votes than it got the last time for a bond issue for a new police headquarters and downtown fire station. But it is hoping for a lot more than that.
A dozen farmers oppose construction of the Albany-Corvallis Bike Trail, and they may be able to block it. They can keep fighting a conditional use permit Benton County is seeking for the path, and if that fails they can decline to sell any needed easements. The question is whether they really want to kill a project with benefits for […]
Of all the things a city government must do, maintaining public parks and libraries ranks at the very top of the priority list, as far as I’m concerned. And today, a particular library has the spotlight here.
Am I frightening these geese or what?
Woodland Square is beginning to look for tenants, as the sign indicates, but by the time the first ones move in early next year, this brand new Albany apartment complex will likely have a different name.
Every few months, it seems, another phone book hits the stoop. Or, in the country, the verge by the side of the road. Or the grassy strip next to your mailbox. The question is: Who needs all those phone books?
Thinking ahead to 2064
Albany now has a new time capsule that’s supposed to remain sealed — welded shut — until October 2064. What it doesn’t yet have is a place to put it until then.
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