Three years ago, the Albany community development director approved a site plan for a 107-unit apartment complex between Geary Street on one side and Periwinkle Creek on the other. Now, the Creekside Meadows apartments are built, and tenants have moved in.
Passenger train service in Albany will be interrupted Sunday while a contractor replaces the railroad bridge across Periwinkle Creek on the Union Pacific’s mainline.
One reason old Albany’s Willamette Neighborhood makes for a great place to ride a bike — besides not much traffic — is that nature is close at hand.
If you could follow Periwinkle Creek from south Albany all the way to its mouth, you would end up in Bowman Park on the Willamette River. But you can’t.
Why didn’t I see shopping carts or other trash in Periwinke Creek on Sunday? Because a great bunch of volunteers hauled tons of refuse out of the creek the day before.
On Saturday the bike and I returned to the paved bikepath alongside Periwinkle Creek. Sure enough, a long section south of Queen Avenue had been cleared of the tall grass that threatened to cover the path before.
At Periwinkle crossing, rail bridge replaced
As scheduled, a contractor’s crew replaced the Periwinkle Creek crossing on the Union Pacific Railroad’s mainline in Albany on Sunday.
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