[youtube video=”KHIXjgXkSSo”] This should be the last mention of Bryant Park on this site for a while, don’t you think? But since the park’s locked gates were an item on Sunday and Tuesday, it’s only fair to report that the gates are open again now.
Why Bryant Park has remained closed
Written March 5th, 2019 by Hasso Hering
Speaking of Bryant Park in Albany, we now have an answer as to why the entrance and exit gates were still locked on Monday: Fear of flooding.
Bryant Park: It’s been a full century
Written February 28th, 2019 by Hasso Hering
This is a story about how one thing leads to another, among them the spelling of the name of a park, a big anniversary, and the fount of local history that is the Albany Regional Museum.
It’s a 17-hole course for now
Written October 27th, 2017 by Hasso Hering
Nobody was standing under this Bryant Park tree when the trunk snapped during the recent wind storm. But one of the baskets of the disc golf course was.
On a slow day, watch the river rise
Written April 28th, 2017 by Hasso Hering
Patrolling my riverfront beat on Friday afternoon on the bike, I could not help but notice that the Willamette had risen rather sharply over the last few days. Looks like the Corps upped its releases from the upstream dams.
Idle thoughts: We’re lacking lakes
Written February 13th, 2017 by Hasso Hering
There’s no news here, just an observation: Wouldn’t it be nice if the seasonal wintertime flooding of Albany’s Bryant Park was a permanent thing and people could enjoy something called Bryant Lake all year long?
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Another memory of this April flood
By now we’ve probably all had our fill of high-water photos. So here’s what should be the last installment on this site, a glimpse of navigation on Albany’s Bryant Park.
Tags: April flooding 2019, Bryant Park