Expect delays, the sign on Gibson Hill Road says. That doesn’t sound good. But what it also says is that the long-awaited repaving of this North Albany arterial will finally start this month.
With any kind of luck, North Albany commuters should find the going much smoother on Gibson Hill Road by the end of summer 2022.
The conflict over a proposed expansion of the Coffin Butte landfill in north Benton County has entered a new and unexpected stage.
For residents of North Albany, the property selected for a proposed Benton County justice center has one advantage over the other sites that have now been rejected.
As far as I can remember, I’ve been inside the historic Benton County Courthouse only twice, the last time nearly four years ago when my wife and I went down into the basement (pictured above) to change our registration to vote.
Turns out that contrary to what it says on Benton County’s project website, we can keep calling the proposed Albany-Corvallis Bikeway by that name or something like it.
Expenses mount in Benton’s big plans
Seven years after their last attempt to win voter approval for a new jail, Benton County officials are assembling a more ambitious and much more expensive expansion project for which property taxpayers eventually will get the bill — if it is carried out.
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