When I read online about the fire of the big stack of straw southwest of Albany Monday, I wondered what could have caused it. So far the cause is undetermined, and Linn County detectives are trying to find what it was.
On a bike ride through the Jackson Hill neighborhood of central Albany Wednesday afternoon, a line of new automobiles caught my eye.
Spot news on the cop beat is not the usual fare on this website. But on a bike ride in the rain after noon on Monday, this is what I came across at the Lyon Street underpass in downtown Albany.
One week after an Albany bicyclist died in a collision with a motor vehicle on a widened section of Riverside Drive, Linn County sheriff’s detectives are still trying to determine exactly how it happened.
Maybe it wasn’t what Democrats in the legislature had in mind, but the effect of a new law they passed as Senate Bill 48 is that there’s not much law enforcement can do about minor crimes such as shoplifting or trespassing.
Some roadside memorials in the Albany area – – and elsewhere, too — start fading away after a time. But not this one on Bryant Way.
Sheriff asks to expand permit parking zone
When I rode the bike to the top of the Pacific Boulevard overpass Saturday and looked down on Jackson Street, I saw no sign of trouble with parked cars. But trouble there has been, and the Albany City Council plans to do something about it.
Tags: Albany City Council, homeless people, Jackson Street, Linn County Sheriff, parking enforcement area