Philomath
GOVERNMENT
Public hearing on annexation, rezoning application set for July 22 meeting
The Philomath City Council plans to meet at 6 p.m. Monday at City Hall to consider an annexation and rezoning application for property on North Ninth Street. The meeting will include a public hearing to be followed by discussion and a decision. The applicant, Gregory Phelps, wants the city to...
Down to the river, an unexplained fence
There was still a section of concert fencing across a new path in Monteith Riverpark Friday. It didn’t necessarily keep people from getting to the riverbank, but why keep a fence there at all?. Like others before me, I walked around the fencing Friday because I wanted to see...
Open Streets Corvallis returns for 6th annual street festival
Join the City of Corvallis as they take back the streets for the people in the annual Open Streets Corvallis Festival. On Sunday July 21 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. a car-free route travels between Garfield Park and Cloverland Park. Along the route there will be an activity hub along the northern edge of Porter Park.
On the riverfront path, what you can see
Big important news happens elsewhere, but on Albany’s Dave Clark Riverfront Path there are little things to notice and to see. For instance, on Friday I noticed that a broken rail on the path’s roughly 40-year-old boardwalk under the Ellsworth Street Bridge had been fixed. When I called...
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