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
Pastor Kyle Delhagen — a poet in the pulpit
When Pastor Kyle Delhagen writes his sermon every week, he has a prayer on his lips: Lord, your words, not mine.
“I’m in love with words,” Delhagen says in this week’s Enterprise podcast.
He was instal…
Will Gibney, Dan Gibney, and Laura Assaf — A love story about a dog and his boy
Will Gibney, at 17, has written a book about the dog that changed his life.
“Toshi is my service dog,” says Will in this week’s Enterprise podcast. “He means so much to me because for years he’s been …
Kayleigh Reynolds-Flynn — FFA American degree, a BKW first
Kayleigh Reynolds-Flynn has been riding horses since she was born.
Her mother grew up riding horses, too.
“My favorite picture I have is of me when I was probably about three or four months old with my…
Pastor Eric Reimer — Build relationships and spread love
Eric Reimer is a pastor who tweets.
He is the new pastor at St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Altamont. “The word of God …,” said Reimer, “needs to be proclaimed wherever people are. The Luthe…
Gail Brown, a librarian drawing Voorheesville together
The longtime head of Youth and Family Services at the Voorheesville library, Gail Brown has just been named Public Librarian of the Year by the New York State Library Association.
Her goal is to creat…
Merton Simpson says America must come to grips with the legacy of racism
Merton D. Simpson has always had a sense of his African ancestry and his Blackness.
He was born in Charleston, South Carolina and raised in Brooklyn so he says he’s always known the deep divisions in …
Brian Farr — Traveling Route 20 to understand history
What began as a path traveled by Native Americans became a plank road for European settlers and now is suburban Guilderland’s major thoroughfare — Route 20.
Route 20 seemed long to Bryan Farr when he …
Gary Kleppel — Knox farm as a laboratory and a refuge
Gary Kleppel is a sheep farmer who likes coyotes.
He is perpetually aware of the ecological balance of which he is a part.
Every morning, Kleppel and his border collie bring their 30 sheep from barn to…
Katherine Hawkins — Reviving Black history in Schoharie County
In 1914, John Daniels wrote “In Freedom’s Birthplace; a Study of the Boston Negroes.” Eighty-five years later, his son, Jack Daniels, wrote “Discovering the Forgotten History of African Americans in …
‘True Ghost Stories’ — on reality, life and death
Two creative men from Altamont have gathered ghost stories from village residents and surrounding areas into a book. Neither is a stranger to imagination and yet they have labeled these stories as tr…
Michaela Kehrer — "agriculture is everywhere"
“The cool thing is agriculture is everywhere,” says Michaela Kehrer.
She has been teaching about agriculture and its many related subjects at Berne-Knox-Westerlo’s secondary school since 2017. That ye…
Donald Hyman — prospector, panning for the gold of forgotten history
Donald Hyman brings history to life by portraying people from the past.
Albany hotelier Adam Black Jr.; James Matthews, the state’s first African-American judge; and James Dickson, a New Scotland nati…
Edna Litten — speaking out about plastic grass
“We’ve only got one planet,” says Edna Litten. “We’ve got to take care of it.”
Litten, who grew up in Queens and lives now in Altamont, remembers going to a teach-in for the first Earth Day in 1970. S…
Kristopher Williams — invasive species and their huge effects
Kristopher Williams is now in his third career, as the coordinator for the Capital Region PRISM, Partnership for Regional Invasive Species.
Monitoring species that don’t belong is “a never-ending job,…
Ellen Manning — Preserving a sense of place in McKownville
“We try to protect our little neighborhood,” says Ellen Manning, president of the McKownville Improvement Association. The association, which is almost a century old, is on the brink of achieving a n…
Matthew Pinchinat, diversity, equity, and inclusion — ‘The community is larger than you’
Matthew Pinchinat was recently named as the director for diversity, equity, and inclusion — a new post for the Guilderland school district.
Diversity, explains Pinchinat in this week’s podcast at Alt…
Alan Kowlowitz — ‘You can’t preserve what you don’t know’
As newcomers move to Voorheesville and New Scotland, Alan Kowlowitz hopes they will embrace their heritage, not as a matter of genetics, a love of place handed down through family, but rather like th…
Brian Barr — a way to work toward peace and harmony in Albany
Brian Barr of Guilderland was one of five people recently recognized as a Community Bridge Builder at the inaugural awards ceremony held by ALERT, the Albany Law Enforcement Resolution Team.
The not-f…
Jennifer Black, chainsaw carver, “We are discovering what’s in this log together”
Jennifer Black looks at a log and sees how it could become a bird or a lighthouse or a bear.
With a chainsaw in her hands, she has a running conversation in her mind, changing what she creates as she …
Lisa O’Sullivan and Quetta Duran — Pairing kids with mentors
Lisa O’Sullivan and Quetta Duran share a passion for helping children. In their work for Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Capital Region, they see how mentors paired with children can transform lives.…