hometown hero

Maureen White-Schock of Ballston Spa is not only on the front lines at Albany Medical Center dealing with the high stress, high demand job of the health care world during the pandemic, but continues her job when she gets home. While she certainly is grateful to be blessed with a wonderful husband and two children, she assumes the responsibility of caregiver to her mother-in-law, who unfortunately

We were able to track down Joanna Finkle while she was hard at work at the Crisp Cannoli .Joanna makes up 1/2 of the dynamic duo that operate the popular bakery/cafe in Castleton where her and her brother Jason not only feed hungry customers, but give back as well. One of their best customers, a woman by the name of Karen, emailed us to nominate the brother/sister team because as someone who frequ

We called Beau Dushane to pass along the news that he was our Hometown Hero for the month of July and we were actually lucky to get a hold of him. Beau is one busy man juggling not one or two, but three different jobs for ambulance companies down in the Catskills. Dushane's cousin Katie felt compelled enough to email us and nominate this hard-working man who we had the pleasure to talk to, but we

May's Hometown Hero sounds like one of the most generous and kind men you'll want to know.  His name is Jim Welch and he's from Mechanicville.  Jim does something truly unique for children in need by offering up the gift of a comfortable place to sleep.  Jim and a group of volunteers donate their time, energy and resources to literally make custom beds for kids.  Listen to the heartwarming phone c

Melody is the Director of Veterans Miracle Center, and when we called her to inform her that she was April's Hometown Hero, she was incredibly grateful.   But, she was also in the midst of doing a million things for our Veterans and active military, so we kept it rather brief.   Please take a moment to listen to our call to Melody; it may inspire you to help out some true American heroes in a time

When we talked to Lieutenant Erica Debie from the Ballston Lake Fire Department to inform her that she'd been nominated to be February's Hometown Hero she immediately corrected us. "I'm the Captain now, guys" she quickly informed us.  The promotion happened recently and we were thrilled to hear about her recently anointed honor.  Erica Debie from Burnt Hills is not only the captain of th

Nichole Naccarato from Latham is January's Hometown Hero after an enlightening email submission from her friend Stephanie Joslin.  Stephanie wrote to tell about this amazing woman who went from being a workout buddy to so much more, especially when times got tough.

Please take a few  minutes out of your busy day to listen to the call Chrissy and I made to Sally Benoit telling her that she was the December Hometown Hero.  Sally and her amazing husband live about 90 minutes west of Albany but their story could inspire those nationwide.  It's literally like a movie you'd see on the  Hallmark Channel.  It is our honor to introduce you to the Benoits and share wi

We called 9-year-old Cody Alessi from Stuyvesant while he was in school to tell him he was the Hometown Hero For November and probably caught him off guard a bit but it was certainly worth it. Take a listen!