Someone must have looked up from the street on First Avenue and didn’t like what they saw. Which may explain the email I got last week.
On Tuesday this week I was riding my bicycle on First Avenue toward Lyon when four colorful bikes on the sidewalk caught my eye.
Nobody on the Albany City Council liked the steep jump in the price of planned construction on railroad crossings along Water Avenue. But on Wednesday a majority approved funding to pay for the work because there wasn’t any realistic choice.
It has taken a while, but now a faded former apartment house on East First Avenue in Albany has been rebuilt as something completely different. Now it’s the Opera House, a building with century-old lines on the outside and modern, well equipped apartments inside the walls.
As just about everyone on Facebook knows by now, the famous Novak’s Hungarian restaurant in downtown Albany has closed.
A plan to have Obie Companies of Eugene consider developing part of the Albany waterfront with mixed-use buildings is moving ahead.
Longtime Albany bike shop is closing
Bike N’ Hike, the downtown Albany store where our family has bought bicycles and bike stuff for more than 40 years, is closing by the end of this month.
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