For years the Linn County commissioners have been trying to find more space in Albany for county government functions. Now they have their eyes on the Wheelhouse, the four-story office building overlooking the Willamette River.
In July the Linn County Board of Commissioners voted 2-1 to buy the First Evangelical Church property in Albany’s Willamette Neighorhood. Today I learned that the county has changed its mind and the purchase is off.
On a fine afternoon last month, I stopped the bike in front of the First Evangelical Church in Albany to take a photo. I wondered whatever happened to the congregation’s plan to sell the church, which I had reported in March 2022. Turns out those plans have borne fruit.
A worldwide company is proposing to build a solar energy farm covering 2.5 square miles in south Linn County. I’m surprised there hasn’t been more news coverage of what would be the first new power plant in these parts. So let me give it a try.
It was in February 2017 when I got wind of a plan to turn the vacant former paper mill property in Millersburg into a reloading center to connect Willamette Valley shippers with the rest of the world. It sounded far-fetched at the time, but on Wednesday I got a chance to take a look at […]
On a blustery recent Sunday, we ventured into the hinterlands of Linn County. This was one the the places where we stopped.
Linn County rents space for Veterans Services
Linn County is expanding its services to part of a downtown Albany building that, until a few years ago, housed Mark Thomas Motors.
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