What will become of Albany’s Carnegie Library downtown? City officials hope they might have some idea about the branch’s future in three years. That, at least, is the goal now baked into the city’s ...

The new quarters of the Linn County Clerk’s Office could not be more convenient for people going past just outside on the Dave Clark Riverfront Path. On Monday I got off the bike and stopped in. The ...

So what exactly is wrong with performance-enhancing drugs, so-c alled? I’ve been wondering about that since the Lance Armstrong story unraveled. If we take something to help us stay awake while ...

Here’s a brief chat with the owner of a roadside farm stand that’s a bit more elaborate than the usual. It’s at 2901 Oak Grove Drive N.W. in North Albany, about a quarter-mile south of Dumbeck Lane. I ...

Here’s something else to worry about. Or maybe not. “The Week,” a news weekly, reports on a new study suggesting that the Earth’s magnetic field may disappear in maybe 500 years. This, it says, might ...

Vacant land on both sides of Hickory Street in North Albany may not stay vacant for long, judging by applications pending at City Hall, although the timing of the respective developments is unclear.

Looks like Albany’s newest roundabout will welcome drivers to the city’s historic districts, at a cost so far estimated at between $70,000 and $90,000 including landscaping. The traffic circle was ...

As many drivers on SW Pacific Boulevard in Albany have noticed, the prominent spray foam figures of a prospector and his burro have moved. For a long time, they stood on a pedestal at the former South ...

The flashing lights in the North Albany Road school zone worked. That is, they worked as intended. The number of speeding tickets is down, way down. The Albany Police Department has posted the May ...

Three locomotives and at least 10 railroad cars remain stranded in Benton County because the railroad bridge over the Marys River in Corvallis has not been rebuilt. The engines, two belonging to the ...

The Albany Planning Commission Monday approved the conversion of a historic house in the Monteith District into a substance-abuse treatment center. The commission approved a conditional use permit ...

Everybody has to take some time off now and then. Which I did this week and got out of town. And on a bicycle ride one evening outside of Jacksonville in Southern Oregon, I got off the bike at a handy ...