On bike rides along Albany’s main off-street paths over the first few weeks this summer, I noticed something that wasn’t there.
There has been considerable progress in the cleanup of vagrant camps along two of Albany’s multi-use paths. You cannot help but notice this if you go past these places every few days.
The homeless camp on the Dave Clark Riverfront Path featured in Friday’s story had been cleared by Friday afternoon.
There have been improvised homeless camps along the Willamette River in Albany for years, but not up on the Dave Clark Riverfront Path — until now.
This, a garbage dump on a public trail, is still the exception in Albany. What can be done to keep scenes like this from multiplying as they have in other cities in Oregon and up and down the West Coast?
From the Cox Creek Path, you don’t see the creek for which it is named, especially not late in the spring when the vegetation runs wild.
Not just another day on Albany paths
Friday’s bike ride along the Albany riverfront was totally routine except for one brief interruption. On the Dave Clark Path, someone had left what you see in the photo above. This made me stop and dig out my phone for this: The “guys” I mentioned in the video turned out to be three ladies out […]
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