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NCPR News Staff: Martha Foley

News and Public Affairs Director
Martha Foley joined the staff of WSLU as morning host in 1981, after a stint at The St. Lawrence Plaindealer. She helped found the news department in 1982, and has seen it grow, and shrink, and grow again. "I especially liked the 'grow again' part," she says, "it means working with really talented reporters, telling more and more stories from around the North Country."

Martha has won state and national awards for her reporting and editing. She has encouraged local news at public radio stations across the country as a member and director of Public Radio News Directors, Inc., an organization of over 100 local newsrooms. As a director of PRNDI for six years, she was responsible for The PRNDI Project, an annual training program for young reporters, and NewsWorks, training for station news departments.

Martha grew up on an Adirondack foothill in northeastern Saratoga County. She lives just south of Canton with her husband, boatbuilder Everett Smith, and her teenaged son, Emmett. Favorite pastimes: sitting, looking, and listening. E-mail

Stories filed by Martha Foley

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Ed Kanze: It Does Strike Twice

by Martha Foley
Jun 19, 2001 — Martha Foley talks with Ed Kanze, writer and naturalist in Bloomingdale who's been struck by lightning twice.  Go to full article

SLU Nepal Returnees in Katmandu During Royal Family Murders

by Martha Foley
Jun 11, 2001 — Martha Foley catches up with a group of faculty and students from St. Lawrence University who just returned from Nepal. They were in Katmandu when members of the royal family there were murdered.  Go to full article

Practical Tips From a Family Counselor

by Martha Foley
Jun 11, 2001 — Martha Foley talks with child psychologist and family counselor Dr. Kent Condrell, about practical tips for healthy families. He'll be at a conference in Lake Placid this weekend.  Go to full article

True Accounts of Living With Alcohol

by Martha Foley
Jun 07, 2001 — True accounts of living with alcohol collected and read by Students Against Destructive Decisions, or SADD, from Massena High School. Martha Foley reports.

The Massena Central School students reading in this story are shown above: (l. to r.) Robbie Witkop, Brandon Johnson, Nick Toth, Meagan Carey, and Kristin Murphy. They stand in front of the "Wall of Support," a collaborative project among art teacher Chad Simpson's sculpture students and SADD participants.  Go to full article

Court Throws Out DEC Permit for St. Lawrence County Chipboard Plant

by Martha Foley
Jun 05, 2001 — Environmentalists scored a victory in a fight against a chipboard manufacturing plant proposed for St. Lawrence County. A State Supreme Court judge vacated the DEC's premit for the plant. Martha Foley reports  Go to full article

Health Education Center Works to Bring Doctors and Nurses to Region

by Martha Foley
Jun 04, 2001 — Martha Foley talks with Richard Merchant, new director of the Northern Area Health Education Center, about the North Country's doctor and nurse shortage and the organization's efforts to encourage local young people to pursue careers in health, and then come back home to practice.  Go to full article

On the Road with American Lit.

by Martha Foley
May 15, 2001 — We hear from some students at SUNY Potsdam who spent Spring Break on-the-road. Lots of students spent Spring Break on the road, but these students kept journals of their travels as part of a final project for a class on North American literature and the open road.  Go to full article

Interview: Andrew M. Cuomo

by Martha Foley
May 14, 2001 — Martha Foley talks with Andrew Cuomo. He attended a Democratic fundraiser dinner in Canton Saturday night.  Go to full article

Deadly Confrontations: Can Agencies Intervene?

by Martha Foley
May 09, 2001 — Martha Foley talks with two mental health professionals about what could have been done to avoid last Friday's fatal confrontation in Morristown. Can agencies intervene, and when? Martha talks with Karen Easter, Director of the crisis intervention program, Reachout, and Julie Degone, Director of Community Services for St. Lawrence County.  Go to full article

Community Forestry: the Arboreal Neighborhood

by Martha Foley
May 08, 2001 — Martha Foley talks with arborist Paul Hetzler about "community forestry:" taking care of the trees most of us are closest to—trees that grow in parks, around schools and along roads and sidewalks.  Go to full article

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