People camping in Simpson Park can expect to be notified this week that they’ll have to leave and their camps will be dismantled.
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.
Sunday was an unusually mild and pleasant November day in these parts, and the bike and I paid a visit to Simpson Park.
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.
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.
With plenty of time on your hands, you can scroll through hundreds of pages of government documents such as, for instance, the latest draft of ODOT’s “STIP” for 2024-2027. And if you do, you might find a surprise.
Timberlab access deal saves farming district
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.
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