HASSO HERING

A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

Looking out from Calapooia Commons

Written February 27th, 2026 by Hasso Hering

A few days after writing about the completion of Calapooia Commons, the mixed-use project at Fourth Avenue and Calapooia Street in Albany’s Monteith Historic District, I got a chance to check out the inside.


Question for a slow day: Why square?

Written September 2nd, 2024 by Hasso Hering

This story is about a pothole. Not just any pothole. Not the kind of pothole which Albany’s older local streets have in abundance. This pothole is special, or it seems that way.


 
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