HASSO HERING

A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

A praying mantis on that distant roof?

Written January 29th, 2020 by Hasso Hering

What’s that odd-looking yellow contraption up on the roof in the distance? It caught my eye on Jan. 25 as I was standing under the Pacific Boulevard viaduct in Albany and looking around.


Cold storage and cold cash

Written December 13th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

You’re looking at a segment of Lochner Road in south Albany. It’s thinly paved but otherwise unimproved from this point north, and this apparently is a barrier to plans by SnoTemp, part of which you see on the left, to expand and also recruit a new fruit-processing plant. On Monday, this problem will be unloaded […]


 
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