Old movies still apparently attract a crowd, even when — or perhaps especially when — they’re shown outdoors, projected on the side of a building. For about 10 summers now, on Friday nights the Albany Downtown Association has shown “Movies by Moonlight” on the wall of the Eagles Club downtown. To watch, people are encouraged […]
Reader Brian Lee contributed this report on Aug. 1: Glad that you posted an update on Truax Island (June 14, 2013). I went there this afternoon since I’d never explored the park, though I’d driven by several times. Right away, I noticed the ‘Truax Island’ sign was missing below the Willamette Greenway sign for the northbound traffic […]
Up and down the mid-Willamette Valley, along country roads and across grass seed fields, crews have been digging or boring into the ground to bury long sections of 12-inch diameter steel pipe. You can see part of the work in progress off Walnut Drive and Riverside Drive south of Albany as well as along Corvallis Road […]
Before anybody tries to change the way Oregon sells and buys hard liquor, he’ll have to persuade people that there’s something wrong with the system we have had since the 1930s. It’s old-fashioned, but so what? What’s wrong with it? Since the end of Prohibition the state has had a monopoly on buying, warehousing and […]
If you’ve thought of launching your canoe from Takena Landing Park, a note of caution. The Willamette River looks placid from afar, and even up close it seems harmless. But there’s a strong current pushing against the upstream side of the dock, made even stronger than the river current itself by the flow around the […]
Thirty-six years after the Periwinkle Bike Path was built, now would be a good time to fix a problem that keeps it from being quite as useful as it could be. The 1.7-mile path extends from Oak Street in central Albany to Grand Prairie Park in the southeast. Another four-tenths of a mile takes the rider […]
Thefts in Adair: Better lock up
If they aren’t already doing so, people living in Adair Village will want to start locking their doors, especially their car doors. On Aug. 1 the Benton County sheriff got reports of what, in terms of the quiet little village of about 900 residents west of Albany in northern Benton County, amounted to a veritable […]
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