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Albany gets ready for Cycle Oregon start

Written September 8th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

At Timber Linn Park in Albany, they’re getting ready for a bunch of people on bikes. The park is the starting point for Cycle Oregon 2023, a seven-day bicycle tour that will take participants through the Willamette Valley wine country, across the Coast Range and down the coast on inland roads.


Where they put the muck from Waverly Lake

Written August 18th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

So what happens with the green muck that’s being pulled out of Waverly Lake in Albany? For yesterday’s report I forgot to ask, so today I thought I’d better nail that down.


Behold our mighty … Cox Creek

Written February 16th, 2017 by Hasso Hering

It’s not often anyone is tempted to write a headline like the one above. But it came to mind after a day of unusually heavy rain in the Albany area, where heavy rain in February is not exactly big news.


Sunday video: Cavorting canines

Written July 27th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

Albany’s new dog park wasn’t exactly overrun Sunday morning, but the dogs that were there seemed to enjoy themselves. Maybe they don’t usually get to run around in company with other dogs, so this might have neen something of a novelty for them.


Albany’s dog park about done

Written July 8th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

If you’ve been waiting to exercise your dogs at Albany’s newly fenced dog park, the wait is almost over. How much longer? The answer at City Hall on Monday was “soon.” The fencing is finished, complete with three cage-like enclosures at the entrance, with gates to the outside as well as the inside. Glistening in the […]


Albany dog park: The spot

Written May 25th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

What’s new on the plan to fence in an area for dogs at Albany’s Timber Linn Park? At last report, in this space on May 6, Parks and Recreation Director Ed Hodney said he had settled on Timber Linn as the place but had not yet chosen the specific corner of the park. Now he […]


An Albany park for dogs

Written May 6th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

If I had a dog that needed room to run, I’d be more than passing interested in what the Albany Parks and Recreation Department is working on. Being dogless, alas, I was still curious about whatever happened as a result of a public meeting announced a couple of months ago. The meeting was to gauge […]


 
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