HASSO HERING

A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

Quick sale: Historic home gets new owner

Written August 6th, 2019 by Hasso Hering

Somebody is buying the historic house at 732 Fourth Ave. S.W., which sat vacant for years and became the subject of a city of Albany enforcement action in 2017 to clean up the overgrown yard.


Old houses: Council takes the case

Written September 12th, 2018 by Hasso Hering

Unhappy with a city committee’s rejection of a request to raze three dilapidated old houses in the Monteith Historic District, the Albany City Council voted Wednesday to review the case without the applicants having to file — and pay for — an appeal.


Derelict houses: Demolition requested

Written August 24th, 2018 by Hasso Hering

What can you do with three old houses that the city of Albany condemned as uninhabitable, and making them livable again would cost more than a million dollars? One answer is to tear them down so new dwellings can be built on the site.


‘Ridiculous, trashy’ barbed wire

Written March 7th, 2018 by Hasso Hering

Jim Ketter doesn’t know how much longer his brain tumor will allow him to live. Before he goes, he’d like the city of Albany to do something about the fencing that lines the Santiam Canal.


 
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