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A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

Camp site near 9th Avenue ramp is clear

Written September 26th, 2024 by Hasso Hering

On Thursday evening I got off the bike and looked around near the Ninth Avenue ramp on the south side of the Pacific Boulevard viaduct in Albany. The site had been almost completely cleaned up.


Squalor on our streets: What must be done

Written September 14th, 2024 by Hasso Hering

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.


Albany to start enforcing camping ban

Written September 9th, 2024 by Hasso Hering

The City of Albany says it is about to start enforcing its revised ban on unauthorized camping on public property. The new regulations took effect one month after the city council adopted them on Aug. 7.


Cities face new mandate on river trash

Written April 21st, 2024 by Hasso Hering

As if cities like Albany don’t have enough to do, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is proposing to list sections of the Willamette River as “impaired” by trash. This will trigger new regulations under the federal Clean Water Act, and cities likely will bear the brunt of a new mandate.


What you see on the Perwinkle Bikepath

Written July 30th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

One of my bike routes through Albany takes me along the Perwinkle Bikepath, and on it you can see different kind of sights, from wildlife to trash.


Preparing Albany’s camp site for homeless

Written June 14th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

A bike ride Wednesday took me past the vacant lot at 503 Ninth Ave. S.E., where the city of Albany plans to have homeless people camp if they can’t or won’t go to a shelter.


City’s homeless camp: Put it where?

Written May 26th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Albany’s new city law authorizing officially permitted homeless camps passed the city council withhout opposition this week with one big question unanswered.


 
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