Albany City Council

Red light cameras: Another look

Written January 8th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 2 responses.

Red light cameras are under fire across the country, but not so far in Albany or elsewhere in Oregon. A closer look is in order. What do those other states and cities know that we don’t?

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Tags: Albany City Council, red light cameras, Redflex

New life for an old church?

Written January 1st, 2015 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 7 responses.

This may be the year someone rescues the old church at Albany’s Main Street and Santiam Road before it falls down. Two parties have submitted proposals to acquire the city-owned property at 401 S.E. Main and do something with it, and the city staff is analyzing the offers.

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Tags: Albany City Council, CARA, Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Main Street project, Santiam Road

Albany projects: Got “visions”?

Written December 22nd, 2014 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 7 responses.

One of the reasons Albany hired the Mackenzie firm of Portland to design new police and fire stations was the company’s commitment to and experience with a public process in moving the projects ahead. The firm is wasting no time following through.

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Tags: "visioning", Albany City Council, Albany police and fire stations, Mackenzie

SnoTemp gets council’s support

Written December 15th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 3 responses.

The numbers and the timing are still unclear, but the Albany City Council is eager to to help pay for a share of the cost of repaving the northernmost segment of Lochner Road in order to help an adjoining cold-storage company expand.

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Tags: Albany City Council, Lochner Road, SnoTemp

Cold storage and cold cash

Written December 13th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 2 responses.

You’re looking at a segment of Lochner Road in south Albany. It’s thinly paved but otherwise unimproved from this point north, and this apparently is a barrier to plans by SnoTemp, part of which you see on the left, to expand and also recruit a new fruit-processing plant. On Monday, this problem will be unloaded […]

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Tags: Albany City Council, Albany food industry, cold storage, SnoTemp

Police and fire stations: Another step

Written December 11th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 5 responses.

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.

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Tags: Albany City Council, Albany public safety buildings, Morse-Burright committee

A big waste? The details say no

Written December 5th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

Comments: no responses.

When I first read about this item in the Albany City Council agenda, it looked like an example of federal money being wasted. I’m happy to report that as I learned more about it, that impression proved false.

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Tags: Albany City Council, Albany Fire Department, live-fire training, mobile training unit