To the Editor:
I have a question about your March 23, 2023 editorial about the purchase of the former newspaper building in Altamont [“From the editor: The Altamont Enterprise has come home”].

In it, you wrote: “We hope to repurpose the old wainscoted meeting hall on the top floor of 123 Maple Avenue, once used by the Odd Fellows, to be an inclusive meeting space for candidate debates and community forums.”

By inclusive, do you mean disabled people will be able to attend the debates and community forums on the top floor? Just asking for a friend(s).

Christine Duffy

Guilderland

Editor’s note: You raise a fair point. We post our forums online as well as our candidate interviews so that anyone can watch from home, and in advance we have solicited questions for candidates online from the public, so anyone can participate. Also, we write news stories about the forums and interviews so they can be read online or in print form — anytime, anywhere.

The sentence you quote was meant to contrast the Odd Fellows meetings of a century ago, which like many fraternal organizations of the time were not open to all, with our approach today. It was meant in a figurative rather than a literal sense. We do not have an elevator in our 1800s building.