Bowman Park on the Willamette River in Albany was closed today because of an overflow of untreated sewage caused by a power failure that shut down the city’s treatment plant and related pump stations.
Energy and wildlife — those were two of the unrelated topics that occupied me this December morning, for a while anyway. Let me explain.
The day before Thanksgiving, a couple of signs caught my eye. They were attached to two trees in the 500 block of Washington Street.
Pacific Power has been trying to get its customers in Albany and elewhere to cut down on using electricity, which seems strange for a company that sells power.
A reader who lives in the Broadway Neighborhood of West Albany has been bothered by a mysterious humming noise at night, and she wondered if I had any ideas about the cause.
A few weeks ago — I can’t remember exactly when — I heard someone at an Albany City Council meeting say that the city’s new electric-vehicle charging station downtown had gone on the blink. So on Sunday I stopped by the parking lot behind the Wallace Building (the former J.C. Penney store), where the EV […]
A short explanation of work on Gibson Hill
What are they doing on Gibson Hill Road, somebody asked yesterday. The short answer is they’re working on the power lines.
Tags: Gibson Hill Road, North Albany, Pacific Power, power poles, power system