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Old supermarket to become a thrift store

Written February 20th, 2026 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 23 responses.

The former West Albany Safeway supermarket may not be empty much longer. A nonprofit ministry, Adult and Teen Challenge Pacwest, says it has signed a lease for the building and plans to move its Albany thrift store there.

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‘Climate-friendly’ areas: An impossible goal

Written February 19th, 2023 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 9 responses.

Albany and other towns of similar size are under state orders to do something that’s impossible: to create “climate friendly areas” where people in the future won’t need cars to go to work or meet most other needs.

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Taking Kmart’s place is … what?

Written November 10th, 2014 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 5 responses.

A request to divide the tax lot occupied by the former Kmart store in Albany has touched off rumors in City Hall and elsewhere about what if anything might go there. The big question: Is Winco Foods involved? Good answers were impossible to come by on Monday night.

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This ‘village’ still lacks a store

Written February 23rd, 2014 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 8 responses.

So much for land use planning and zoning. It doesn’t do the public much good if the economy — meaning the real world — doesn’t play along. In North Albany, zoning called for the creation of a “village center.”

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