Millersburg

Intermodal center to get some ‘green’ life

Written October 15th, 2024 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 4 responses.

It was a year ago, in October 2023, that I last parked the bike at the new but dormant intermodal shipping center in Millersburg. Now it looks as though this multimillion-dollar terminal will finally get some use.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Intermodal Center, Millersburg, Omni Energy Trading LLC, renewable diesel

Timberlab access deal saves farming district

Written August 28th, 2024 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 5 responses.

This photo, taken on a bike ride in June 2023, comes in handy now to illustrate a historic deal that saves the Dever-Conner farming area near Millersburg from urban or industrial expansion for the next 51 years.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: access road, Dever-Conner Ag District, driveway, farmland, Linn County, Millersburg, orchard, protecting farmland, Timberlab, urban growth boundary

Camp cleanup planned in Simpson Park

Written August 12th, 2024 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 5 responses.

People camping in Simpson Park can expect to be notified this week that they’ll have to leave and their camps will be dismantled.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: camp cleanup, camp clen, First Lake, homeless camping, Millersburg, Second Lake, Simpson Park, Willamette River

A Millersburg ride: The tanks are history

Written April 20th, 2024 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 2 responses.

A bike ride Saturday took me to the corner of Conser and Old Salem roads in Millersburg, where the Kinder Morgan pipeline company owns a pumping station and a former tank farm that stored petroleum products years ago. Now the tanks are gone.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: Kinder Morgan, Millersburg, petroleum products, pipeline, pump station, tank farm

Speaking of First Lake: Missing the boat

Written November 12th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 3 responses.

Sunday was an unusually mild and pleasant November day in these parts, and the bike and I paid a visit to Simpson Park.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: bicycling, First Lake, Millersburg, Simpson Park, Willamette River

Millersburg: Those tanks may soon be gone

Written November 2nd, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 6 responses.

On Oct. 25 I leaned the bike against a gate in Millersburg and wondered about the unused fuel tanks behind it. The tanks — 15 of them as shown on Google satellite view — won’t be there much longer, it turns out.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: abandoned fuel tanks, Conser Road, Kinder Moran, Millersburg, Old Salem Road, pipeline, tank farm

Millersburg reloading center: Still waiting

Written May 9th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 20 responses.

Five months after Gov. Kate Brown and others celebrated the completion of the Mid Willamette Valley Intermodal Center, the Millersburg reloading center has yet to handle its first cargo.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: containers, international trade, Mid Valley Intermodal, Millersburg, Oregon freight, reloading center, shipping