Periwinkle Creek

Hearings set on new apartment complex

Written January 16th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 19 responses.

Owners of the former Mega Foods supermarket property are asking the City of Albany to approve dividing the 4.8-acre tract and to rezone the southern section to allow construction of 42 apartments.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: apartments, Mega Foods, Megainvestments, Periwinkle Creek, zoning

Albany seeks to improve riverside trail

Written December 22nd, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 6 responses.

Albany city officials have an idea for an improved walking and biking trail along the south side of the Willamette River. The “multi-use path” would follow the route of an existing dirt track that links Bowman and Simpson parks.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany parks, Albany Public Works, Bowman Park, community paths, ODOT, ostco, Periwinkle Creek, riverside trail, Simpson Park, Waverly Park, Winco

Watching a big bird at Periwinkle Park

Written April 30th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 5 responses.

On a leisurely ride down the Periwinkle Bikepath Saturday, a great blue heron caught my eye. So I stopped a few minutes to watch.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary
Tags: Albany parks, great blue herons, ODFW, Periwinkle Creek

That urban ‘vandal’ has buck teeth

Written April 9th, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 11 responses.

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

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: Albany parks, beavers, Periwinkle Bike Path, Periwinkle Bikepath, Periwinkle Creek

On Periwinkle Creek, a preview of spring

Written February 17th, 2020 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 3 responses.

With the sun out on Monday afternoon, it looked as though these flowering trees along Albany’s Periwinkle Creek jumped the gun on celebrating the arrival of spring.

Posted in: Commentary
Tags: flowering trees, Periwinkle Creek, signs of spring

On Periwinkle Creek, somebody cleaned up!

Written March 18th, 2019 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 5 responses.

Wish I knew who got the shopping carts out of a section of Periwinkle Creek in the last few weeks. I don’t. All I know is that the debris I noticed there a couple of months ago has been removed.

Posted in: Commentary
Tags: Periwinkle Creek, Shopping carts

The coming ban on plastic bags

Written March 15th, 2019 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 25 responses.

In the interest of reducing plastic pollution on land and sea, the Oregon legislature this year most likely will enact a statewide ban on single-use plastic checkout bags. But just how much pollution this will prevent is unknown.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: HB 2509, Periwinkle Creek, plastic bag ban, plastic pollution