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.
Two creative men from Altamont have gathered ghost stories from village residents and surrounding areas into a book. Neither is a stranger to imaginat...
“The cool thing is agriculture is everywhere,” says Michaela Kehrer.She has been teaching about agriculture and its many related subjects at Berne-Kno...
Donald Hyman brings history to life by portraying people from the past.Albany hotelier Adam Black Jr.; James Matthews, the state’s first African-Ameri...
“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...
Kristopher Williams is now in his third career, as the coordinator for the Capital Region PRISM, Partnership for Regional Invasive Species.Monitoring ...
“We try to protect our little neighborhood,” says Ellen Manning, president of the McKownville Improvement Association. The association, which is almos...
Matthew Pinchinat was recently named as the director for diversity, equity, and inclusion — a new post for the Guilderland school district. Diversity,...
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 pla...
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...
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 conversati...