Other Voices
Often, truth isn’t handed down from public officials but comes from listening to other voices. Once a week, you can hear a wide variety of views from people who shape our corner of the world in New York’s Capital Region. The Altamont Enterprise is the weekly newspaper of record for Albany County, New York.
We’ve talked with a Buddhist who provided therapy for Gilda Radner and then helped set up Gilda’s Club after she died; with a Muslim woman who is trying to educate people about her religion as she feels increased hatred; with an African-American man who, as a teenager, helped ferry people north from a town in Mississippi haunted by lynchings.
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 421
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Megan and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
When is a coat a work of art? When is a coat the center of a play?
When it is Joseph’s Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
The character Joseph wears his coat in this weekend’s school production in Voorhees…
Jill Rifkin says musical instruments can be instruments of change
Jill Rifkin is a sort of Robin Hood for musical instruments.
She collects them from often well-off kids who don’t use them and redistributes them to children who can’t afford them.
Rifkin was hooked, s…
Legal Hand: ‘Our mission is to inform and empower’
A new widow had never driven. She had no license. She did, however, have her husband’s car. But, without a driver’s license, she couldn’t register the car to park it on the street.
A neighbor said, “H…
Joan Mckeon says, nurturing nature is something everyone can do
Joan Mckeon had an awakening as she mowed her lawn — a job she hated.“It smelled bad, it was noisy, and the little creatures would run for their lives,” she says in this week’s Enterprise podcast.
The…
Richard Umholtz: The Mountain Family wants to mentor
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Emily Vincent in Berne carries on a sheep legacy
Emily Vincent is carrying on a legacy.
A sheep farmer in Berne, Vincent had a brain tumor removed in January of 2020.
“After I got out of my surgery, I had just the most horrendous vertigo that you cou…
Julia Young, a presidential scholar nominee who likes being challenged
Julia Young, a student at Clayton A. Bouton High School, is one of 25 seniors in New York State nominated as a Presidential Scholar, a recognition the Regents chancellor called “the pinnacle” — and y…
Year in review — The Altamont Enterprise 2022
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Attorney Christine Galvin: Brave children fleeing terror have a friend
Christine Galvin helps abused and neglected children who have fled their homelands in hopes of building a better life in the United States.
She has spent up to a thousand hours each year for more than…
Farmboy learns he can lead people as well as cows
Rudy Pitcher calls his wife, Connie, his “combat buddy.”
It’s not an exaggeration.
Pitcher, now retired from his Army career, was stationed in Tehran in 1978. His wife and their three young children — …
A fold or a twist or a coil is the stuff of dreams for Steinkamp
Paul Steinkamp wishes that, when he was a child, someone had taught him how to fold a piece of paper in half.
As he talks about the art and science of origami, which he came to late in life, he sounds…
Alexandra Fasulo writes of freelancing her way to freedom
Alexandra Fasulo last month published her first book and calls it “my favorite thing I’ve ever done.”
She has done a lot while still in her 20s.
She owns the weekly gig economy newsletter, the Forum, a…
Peggy Warner: ‘Our country gives people the right to choose’
Peggy Filkins Warner says she learned to be independent from her grandfather.“That’s where I got my attitude,” she said of her father and his father.
She was born in the Filkins farmhouse on Joslyn Sc…
Penny Shaw creates “Goosen, The Musical”
Penny Shaw Bartley has always loved to sing and entertain people.It started when she was a kid growing up on a farm in Michigan. She and her siblings worked in the fields, “hoeing out weeds and drivi…
David Rodney Miller, a life-time pacifist takes children seriously
David Rodney Miller describes himself as an 85-year-old pacifist.He says, though, that he has been in a war of one kind or another for most of his life and cites his time in the Peace Corps, which he…
Sandra Dollard, leading Guilderland Chamber, creating connections
Sandra Dollard, a woman known for her warmth and sense of style, ran Evoke Style, a women’s fashion boutique, in Stuyvesant Plaza for more than a decade.
“I had cancer and I got myself through chemo a…
Guilderland Food Pantry director says: ‘If you need us, we’re here’
Last week, John McDonnell, who directs the Guilderland Food Pantry, talked to a woman in her early seventies who had been retired for about five years.He recounts their conversation in this week’s En…
Wendy Dwyer holds on to hope as she fights for a better world
Wendy Dwyer is a lifelong activist who is going to take her commitment to recycling and fighting pollutants all the way to the grave. Literally.
She has signed up for a green burial.
“I’m going to go i…
Millie and Alan Zuk: Lifelong care for community
Mildred and Alan Zuk are consummate givers.Constant in their commitments, they have been married for 50 years.
Throughout that half-century, Alan has been involved either driving school buses for Bern…
Nadia Raza follows her passions — for fashion, food, and helping
Nadia Raza was visiting family in Pakistan this summer when the floods came.
“We didn’t even know. I woke up one morning and I had text messages and Facebook messages from the entire Altamont communit…