Gibson Hill Road

Safe route to school awaits kids

Written October 6th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

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The spiffy new sidewalk along North Albany’s Gibson Hill Road is ready for Wednesday. What’s so special about Wednesday? Well, Oct. 7 is Walk and Bike to School Day in Oregon and elsewhere in the U.S. That, anyway, is what it says in a press release from ODOT.

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Tags: Bike and Walk to School Day, Gibson Hill Road, Safe Routes to School

Crash: A chance to test NA detour

Written May 16th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

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As you can see above, Pacific Power crew members worked Saturday afternoon to replace a power pole on North Albany Road. The road had been closed since Saturday morning. A worker manning the roadblock at the south end of the work zone told me that a trailer had come loose and slammed into the pole by the […]

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Tags: Albany Public Works, Emery & Sons, Gibson Hill Road, North Albany Road, power pole crash

N. Albany: Dread the summer of ’15

Written March 10th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

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When they go to town in the summer of 2015, many residents of North Albany will have to take the long way round. Two big construction projects are planned on the two main roads into and out of the district, which has between 8,000 and 9,000 people.

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Tags: Albany City Council, Gibson Hill Road, North Albany Road, Thornton Lakes