What are they doing on Gibson Hill Road, somebody asked yesterday. The short answer is they’re working on the power lines.
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.
Back in the news: NA voltage regulators
When Pacific Power wanted to install three voltage regulators on North Albany Road in 2019, then Mayor Sharon Konopa objected to the installation’s appearance. Now there’s another issue: They don’t work.
Tags: Adam Kohler, Electric service, North Albany, North Albany Road, Pacific Power, Sharon Konopa, voltage regulators