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Talking Water Gardens: no camps inside, but …

Written February 18th, 2026 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 18 responses.

Talking Water Gardens, the wetlands Albany built in 2012, was all but deserted Wednesday afternoon, empty and almost completely clean. But that’s not the whole story.

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Our off-street paths are cleaner: Here’s why

Written July 14th, 2025 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 11 responses.

On bike rides along Albany’s main off-street paths over the first few weeks this summer, I noticed something that wasn’t there.

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Squalor on our streets: What must be done

Written September 14th, 2024 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 33 responses.

Saturday was their deadline for leaving, and by the afternoon people seemed to be getting ready to move their improvised shelters from the state property near the Ninth Avenue off-ramp on Pacific Boulevard.

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Scenes from the Clark and Periwinkle trails

Written December 9th, 2023 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 4 responses.

Conditions on Albany’s trails range from nice and picked up to messy, as my bike rides along the Dave Clark Path and the Periwinkle Bikepath showed this past week.

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