Many times I’ve admired the wooden sailboat sitting outside a house on Sherman Street in Albany’s Willamette Neighborhood. On Tuesday I saw a man working on it, and I stopped and got off the bike.
Update: Rescuing an old house
Written February 5th, 2016 by Hasso Hering
The woman who lived in this Albany house most of her life will be remembered when the place is rebuilt and named in her honor.
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Tags: Front Avenue, Lola Skelton. Superior Carpentry and Homebuilding, old house, Willamette neighborhood
Tags: Front Avenue, Lola Skelton. Superior Carpentry and Homebuilding, old house, Willamette neighborhood
In Willamette area, a renovation
Written February 2nd, 2016 by Hasso Hering
Looks like something is happening with this house, more than a century old, in Albany’s Willamette neighborhood. The site has been cleaned up and there’s a construction company’s sign out front.
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Tags: Front Avenue, Lola Skelton, Superior Carpentry, Willamette neighborhood
Tags: Front Avenue, Lola Skelton, Superior Carpentry, Willamette neighborhood
Tough choice: Stop or roll through?
Like other residential districts of Albany before it, the Willamette Neighborhood now has sprouted a crop of new stop signs to slow down traffic. This may work, or it may not.
Tags: Albany traffic, Front Street, speed control, stop controls, stop signs, Willamette neighborhood