
The people at Portland State University came out with their annual population estimates the other day. If the report conceals startling news about Albany and other mid-valley towns, I don’t see it. But the new numbers provide fodder for a story nevertheless.
Tags: Adair Village, Alany, Benton County, Corvallis, Linn County, Millersburg, Population estimates, Population research Center, Tangent
Under construction: Truck/rail reloading hub
It was in 2017 that I wrote my first story about what seemed, at the time, an unlikely idea: To turn the vacant site of the demolished Millersburg paper mill into a multimodal reloading center that would connect the mid-valley to the world.
Tags: AMEDC, Andy Olson, John Pascone, Mid-Willamette Valley Intermodal Center, Millersburg, multimodal reloading facility, Roger Nyquist