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A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

Checking up on the Simpson Park Trail

Written June 1st, 2025 by Hasso Hering

Three years ago I took the bike down the trail in Albany’s Simpson Park and made a video of the experience. Not many people saw it, but just yesterday somebody left this comment: “This park today is absolutely filthy and infested with homeless encampments.”


Engineers hired to design bridge replacement

Written January 21st, 2025 by Hasso Hering

Now that engineers have been hired, there’s a timeline for getting the aging Waverly Drive bridge on Cox Creek replaced.


Cox Creek bridge replacement inches forward

Written October 23rd, 2024 by Hasso Hering

On a bike ride Wednesday, I stopped at the bridge across Cox Creek on Waverly Drive. Except that the pavement has become more pitted, little has changed there since the bridge was briefly closed and then restricted to one driving lane in 2005.


A Tuesday ride on the Simpson Park Trail

Written August 14th, 2024 by Hasso Hering

I was out of town when I wrote Monday about the latest plan to rid Simpson Park of unauthorized encampments. On Tuesday the bike took me there to look around.


Camp cleanup planned in Simpson Park

Written August 12th, 2024 by Hasso Hering

People camping in Simpson Park can expect to be notified this week that they’ll have to leave and their camps will be dismantled.


Why the ‘road closed’ sign is there

Written March 13th, 2024 by Hasso Hering

You can get to the Talking Water Gardens this week, but you’ll have to park a little farther away.


Speaking of First Lake: Missing the boat

Written November 12th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Sunday was an unusually mild and pleasant November day in these parts, and the bike and I paid a visit to Simpson Park.


 
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