From the photo you might be able to see why this is one of my favorite places to ride a bike near Albany, especially when the weather is nice.
Repaving Gibson Hill: Project set to start
Written June 8th, 2022 by Hasso Hering
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.
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Tags: Benton County, county roads, Gibson Hill, North Santiam Paving Co., pavement contract
Tags: Benton County, county roads, Gibson Hill, North Santiam Paving Co., pavement contract
Roadside junk: Any answers?
Written June 4th, 2017 by Hasso Hering
Here’s one of life’s vexing questions to which we need a better answer, or any workable answer at all: What do we do about people who leave their trash along our public roads?
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More sand on the roads would help
In many parts of the Albany area, including and especially hilly North Albany, people were stuck in their houses this weekend because the roads were treacherous with a layer of ice on top of hard-packed snow.
Tags: county roads, ice and snow, road departments, sanding and plowing, winter storms