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A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

Permits filed for apartments on ‘Mega’ site

Written June 24th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

For years nothing much was going on at the former Mega Foods supermarket in Albany, which closed in 2017, but now the owners seem to be moving ahead with their plans to develop the site.


Where the need to clean up never ends

Written May 27th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Riding the bike on the Periwinkle Bikepath extension behind Lowe’s was easy Saturday because for once, nobody was camped on the path itself.


Periwinkle Path gets ‘multi-use’ extension

Written July 4th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

From the Periwinkle Bikepath to Geary Street, the sidewalk on the north side of Queen Avenue is torn up for the construction of a wider walkway that will double as an extension of the bikeway too.


Where bike path ends, solution in the works

Written May 2nd, 2022 by Hasso Hering

If you ride your bike south on the Periwinkle Bikepath, you come to a dead end at Queen Avenue, where the path stops in the middle of the block. This may change soon.


That urban ‘vandal’ has buck teeth

Written April 9th, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Somebody was alarmed by what she had seen near the north end of Albany’s Periwinkle Bike Path, and she wanted something done.


Nine minutes on the southern Periwinkle Path

Written February 6th, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Anything new on the southern leg of Albany’s Periwinkle Bikepath? Not really, as I learned when I took a quick look on Saturday.


Christmas Eve on the Periwinkle Bikepath

Written December 24th, 2020 by Hasso Hering

What’s better on Christmas Eve than a quick bike ride through town, including a short jaunt on a segment of Albany’s Periwinkle Bikepath?


 
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