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A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

Use this path if you want to keep it

Written June 15th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

If you occasionally find it convenient to walk or ride your bike on the historic railroad right-of-way between Hill and Oak streets, you might want to use it more often and defend your right to do so.


Here and there: Random shots of what I saw

Written May 5th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

For the last week I have been away, sometimes riding a bike around Jacksonville in Southern Oregon but mainly taking it easy. So here are are few photos from around Albany over the last month.


A visit to the mouth of Periwinkle Creek

Written March 8th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

If you could follow Periwinkle Creek from south Albany all the way to its mouth, you would end up in Bowman Park on the Willamette River. But you can’t.


Citizen asks city to reopen useful shortcut

Written March 15th, 2024 by Hasso Hering

There’s a short foot and bike path from 36th Avenue to Ermine Street, but this 50-foot shortcut has been unusable since the Albany City Council ordered it to be blocked in 2009.


 
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