Bike rides in Albany occasionally take me into a new subdivision on the west end of town, where they’ve been building and selling three- and four-bedroom houses since 2019. It’s the 32-lot Takena Estates subdivision. And as I stopped there Saturday to look around, I was thinking about the Oregon “housing crisis” that we hear […]
Tags: 2024 Oregon legislature, Governor Kotek, HAPO, housing, housing bills
That old RR track: Where it once led
If it was up to me, they’d put a historical marker on the rusted railroad track that runs from the Albany yard past Crabtree Automotive and ends in the bushes before it gets to Hill Street.
Tags: Hill Street, Oregon Pacific Railroad, Railroad history, railroad tracks, Sizzler, Wedgewood apartments