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
Alice Green, executive director Center for Law and Justice in Albany
Alice Green, founder and executive director of the Center for Law and Justice in Albany, talks in this week’s podcast, about structural racism that affects not just our criminal justice system but ev…
00:45:37 |
Thu 04 Jun 2020
Brenna Autrey, Guilderland teacher, is “100-percent in”
Brenna Autrey describes herself in this week’s podcast, as “100-percent in” and “very headstrong.” An English teacher at Guilderland High School for 18 years, she cares deeply about her students, som…
00:29:32 |
Sat 30 May 2020
Christine Primomo — Answer the census, get engaged
Christine Primomo, a retired nurse living in Coeymans, is an activist who is passionate about many initiatives, among them the need for every Albany County resident to be counted in the 2020 census. …
00:28:37 |
Sat 23 May 2020
Karen Sigond, R.N. — “Get the care you need.”
Karen Sigond, R.N. of Berne says her mother and grandmother taught her to sew and to recycle things. So she has used colorful scraps from her quilting projects to make hundreds of masks for people wh…
00:33:26 |
Thu 14 May 2020
Melissa Hale-Spencer — the Golden Dozen of editorial writing
Melissa Hale-Spencer loves taking her dog on miles-long walks at the foot of the Helderberg escarpment where she lives. The longtime editor of The Altamont Enterprise, Hale-Spencer has, for the 10th …
00:32:36 |
Fri 08 May 2020
Craig LeHoullier — tomato guru says 'dig in'
Craig LeHoullier is a tomato guru. He thinks the time of coronavirus, when people are home and wary of grocery shopping, is the perfect time to become a gardener. He does Instagram Live on Fridays fr…
00:30:37 |
Fri 01 May 2020
Sara Slack — Sojourn to Antarctica
Sarah Slack — here, on the deck of the icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer — says science teachers who taught her at Farnsworth Middle School and Guilderland High School shaped her into the explorer and t…
00:28:29 |
Thu 23 Apr 2020
Hedi McKinley — Mental health notes from a centenarian
Hedi McKinley grew up in Vienna, Austria, the only child of poor storekeepers; they lived over their grocery store. Her father, who fought in World War I, had been taken prisoner by the Russians and …
00:30:33 |
Thu 16 Apr 2020
Ward Stone — former wildlife pathologist
Ward Stone, Ph. D., wildlife pathologist for the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation for more than 40 years, has fought his way back from a series of strokes that almost killed him. “I c…
00:43:35 |
Sat 11 Apr 2020
Steven Wickham, Guilderland Coalition for Responsible Growth
Steven Wickham last week undertook a spontaneous act of civil disobedience. As chairman of the steering committee for the Guilderland Coalition for Responsible Growth, he got a call last Thursday aft…
00:35:14 |
Sat 04 Apr 2020
Evan, Lena, and Clara Thomas — Berne-Knox-Westerlo students
Berne-Knox-Westerlo students, from left, twins Evan and Lena Thomas, both 13 and both in eighth grade, and their 11-year-old sister, Clara Thomas, a sixth-grader, talk from their Berne home in this w…
00:22:09 |
Fri 27 Mar 2020
Chris Claus — Gallupville House
Chris Claus — a retired Guilderland teacher — grew up in Gallupville and lives there still, right next to a historic 1872 building, the Gallupville House. It was built as a hotel and, in Claus’s yout…
00:47:22 |
Fri 20 Mar 2020
Thom Breitenbach, an Altamont artist and his legacy
Thom Breitenbach built, with his own hands, the castle where he lives on the shoulder of the escarpment. He wrested Helderberg bluestone from his land and forged its iron hardware. Born in Queens, he…
00:34:57 |
Thu 12 Mar 2020
Bethany Mazura, marathon runner, "Find a thing you love"
Bethany Mazura has some advice: “Find a thing you love to do and don’t be afraid to put it out into the world because you never know who’s going to come calling and end up in your life.” Mazura found…
00:28:20 |
Thu 05 Mar 2020
Karen Magnuson Beil, local author on names, science, and Carl Linnaeus
Karen Magnuson Beil has always been fascinated by names. Her latest book, “What Linnaeus Saw: A Scientist’s Quest to Name Every Living Thing,” is an insightful look at the life of the 18th-Century Sw…
00:36:04 |
Thu 27 Feb 2020
Jean Lee Hungerford Krull, looking back on life in Altamont
Jean Lee Hungerford Krull moved with her family to Altamont when she was 5 years old. She is 96 now and says she is glad current residents are fighting to retain the village’s historic Victorian buil…
00:29:51 |
Thu 20 Feb 2020
Laurel Tormey Cole, the endangered rusty patched bumblebee
Laurel Tormey Cole says a goldfinch is what led her to garden with native plants. Her cosmos, she explains, were too tall to deadhead. One day, she noticed a goldfinch eating the seeds from the spent…
00:38:00 |
Thu 13 Feb 2020
Jenevieve Lussier, transgender performer
Jenevieve Lussier was born 22 years ago as Jared Lussier. She and her twin brother, John, were well known in the Helderberg Hilltowns and beyond for their beautiful singing voices, with harmonies rem…
00:32:50 |
Fri 07 Feb 2020
Teacher Alicia Stenard, addressing school lockdowns
Alicia Stenard believes that a topic percolating just below the consciousness of the American public — school lockdowns — needs to be addressed. As a longtime Albany teacher, she worried about the ef…
00:39:39 |
Fri 31 Jan 2020
Lisa Campo-Engelstein, Ph.D., named to BBC "100 inspiring and influential women"
Lisa Campo-Engelstein, Ph.D. of Altamont was chosen by the BBC as one of “100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2019.” She teaches students at Albany Medical College about the…
00:30:34 |
Thu 23 Jan 2020
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