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Arbor Week

I probably should have written this column last week, but I believe Arbor Week continues through Saturday; so I’m still current. The City Council enjoyed a presentation Wednesday night from our urban forester, Craig Carnagey, and a number of volunteers who have done some great work to enhance Albany’s status as a “Tree City USA. “The 20 or more students from West and South Albany High Schools who showed up and sat through the hour-long program to express their appreciation for the contribution of wood to their shop class by Mike Doolittle and the efforts

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What We Don’t Know

Nearly every time I attend a training session, I am reminded how much I don’t know and how much of what I believed to be true is not.  A good education should really teach humility as its first lesson.

 

The City is training the second round of “Green Belts” this week in an effort to find better ways of doing things.  I believe Albany

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