HASSO HERING

A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

Anything coming? Hard to tell

Written March 30th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

Oregon law allows drivers to make a left on a red light if they are turning on a one-way street. So if you are sitting here on Third Avenue, waiting to go left on Lyon, you should be able to make the turn if nothing is coming down the street from your right. But as you can […]


Back to dirt streets and mud?

Written March 16th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

In a video the other day I reported on the crumbling pavement on Albany’s Fifth Avenue S.E., and you and I together were wondering why that and many other streets in the old part of town haven’t been fixed. The answer is not that there isn’t any money. It’s just that the money is spent on […]


Dodging craters on our streets

Written March 3rd, 2014 by Hasso Hering

The poor shape of some of Albany’s oldest streets is an old subject. A reader, Hazel Siebrecht, brought it up again on Feb. 28 in response to my story on the spending proposals before the CARA urban renewal advisory board when it meets at 5:15 p.m. today (March 4) at City Hall.


About the next snow storm …

Written December 10th, 2013 by Hasso Hering

So what — besides letting the water run to prevent the pipes from freezing up — could we do better the next time we get hit by one of these snowstorms followed by a blast of near-arctic freeze? What could mid-valley residents and our communities do in order to have any easier time?


 
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