A crew this week was working on the historic Palestine Church, which had been moved to Adair Village from the Palestine crossroads in North Albany. Looks like the old structure was getting a foundation.
An update from Adair Village
Written November 17th, 2012 by
Adair Village has made great progress restoring two former barracks buildings salvaged from the former Camp Adair, the Army training camp of World War II. They are being fixed up for some type of community use.
Climate change or something else?
Written November 16th, 2012 by
A study publicized by Oregon State speculates that climate change is causing additional stress to western rangelands where cattle and wild animals graze. In the Los Angeles Times, an art critic reports on the flooding in Venice. He suggests that the annual winter flooding there is much worse this time because of global warming. We […]
Out of place: Downtown billboard
Written November 15th, 2012 by
There’s a billboard on East First Avenue in Albany. It’s been there for years. But I hadn’t really paid attention to it until one day this month. With time on my hands, I was wandering around that part of town, on foot for once. And I got to wondering: What’s a billboard doing there? […]
Albany’s CARA: In search of direction
Written November 15th, 2012 by
Albany’s downtown urban renewal district is working once again to define what it wants to do from now on, and how. Earlier this year the city council, acting as the governing board of the Central Albany Revitalization Agency or CARA, put several pending projects on hold. In October, the CARA advisory board agreed that it […]
Caught in the system
Written November 14th, 2012 by
Some people just can’t catch a break. That is the case with a 28-year-old mother of three from Turner in Marion County. One evening last winter, she took an Ambien sleeping pill and went to bed. Next thing she knew it was after 2 a.m. and she was sitting in the gravel next to her […]
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The marijuana rebellion
We in Oregon should be grateful to our neighbors to the north on the issue of legalization of pot. They’ve done what Oregon voters refused to do, and thus they are taking a lead in trying to make some sense of this aspect of American life and law. Like Washington state, Colorado also voted in the […]
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