HASSO HERING

A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

In the aftermath of a one-car crash

Written October 6th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

Repairs were under way Monday at Third Avenue and Lyon Street in downtown Albany following a traffic crash on Sunday evening that sheared off a signal mast.


A promising oak gets whacked

Written December 9th, 2013 by Hasso Hering

It’s hard to know what to think about this. But these are the facts. Sometime between Sunday afternoon and mid-day Monday, somebody drove his vehicle on to the curb in the 1400 block of Albany’s Southwest Seventh Avenue, ran over a young oak growing there, steered off the curb in one smooth turn and drove […]


 
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