With a vacuum like that, keeping your place clear of leaves this fall would be a breeze, assuming you could wrestle the big hose around, which looks easier than it is.
A smooth path for a better life?
Written November 15th, 2014 by Hasso Hering
On a cold but sunny Saturday, with a brisk tailwind from the north, I’m sailing along on Albany’s Periwinkle Bikepath, thinking about — what else? — poverty and federal funds.
Santiam Canal: Where dollars flow
Written September 1st, 2014 by Hasso Hering
A boat, they say, is mostly a hole in the water into which to pour money. At times the Santiam Canal must seem like that to the city of Albany.
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Tags: City of Albany, City of Lebanon, Santiam Canal, Santiam River, South Santiam River
Tags: City of Albany, City of Lebanon, Santiam Canal, Santiam River, South Santiam River
Canal dispute: Compromise needed
Written August 13th, 2014 by Hasso Hering
In Texas and maybe elsewhere, they say that whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting over. Let’s hope a fight can be avoided in the lingering, water-related dispute between the cities of Albany and Lebanon. The impasse is holding up Lebanon’s plans to build a new treatment plant.
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Tags: City of Albany, City of Lebanon, Lebanon Dam, Santiam Canal, Santiam River
Tags: City of Albany, City of Lebanon, Lebanon Dam, Santiam Canal, Santiam River
The transformation of N. Albany
Written May 31st, 2014 by Hasso Hering
This looks like exactly what it is, a big construction site on what used to be an undeveloped North Albany hillside. They are putting in streets and utilities for 71 single-family houses in Phase III of the Benton Woods Subdivision. So the transformation of North Albany continues. What used to be a rural residential area with fields and […]
On canal, let’s be reasonable
Written March 11th, 2014 by Hasso Hering
Albany is sounding tough when it comes to Lebanon and the Santiam canal. It’s one thing to start negotiations with a hard-nosed attitude. But when it comes to two neighboring towns depending on the same asset, some friendly flexibility would not come amiss. And it would sound better.
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Canal fight getting out of hand
It hasn’t come to blows yet, but it may — I’m talking figuratively, I hope — in the fight between city officials of Albany and Lebanon over the Albany-Lebanon Canal. On Friday it looked as though the dispute would reach a boiling point at Cheadle Lake, the former log pond Lebanon has turned into a park-like waterway […]
Tags: Albany-Santiam Canal, City of Albany, City of Lebanon