When I read online about the fire of the big stack of straw southwest of Albany Monday, I wondered what could have caused it. So far the cause is undetermined, and Linn County detectives are trying to find what it was.
Riding the bike along Riverside Drive southwest of Albany the other day, I could not help but be impressed by the massive amount of grass straw that’s stacked on a field south of the road.
The accident that killed an Albany bicyclist on Riverside Drive on Aug. 23 remains “under investigation,” according to a police traffic crash report the Linn County Sheriff’s Office released on Friday.
One week after an Albany bicyclist died in a collision with a motor vehicle on a widened section of Riverside Drive, Linn County sheriff’s detectives are still trying to determine exactly how it happened.
Out on Riverside Drive, about half a mile from Oakville Road, this is what you see: Three great big stacks of stuff covered with tarps to protect them from the winter rain.
It’s hard to say whether the long-planned but never built Albany-Corvallis Bikeway in Benton County is still a possibility, especially now that the Albany portion has to be reconsidered.
On a ride, when all you see is geese
Most days, riding the bike around Albany, I see something at least mildly interesting or noteworthy along the way. On other days, not so much.
Tags: Canada geese, December weather, farm field ditches, juvenile fish, Riverside Drive