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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-mailStories filed by Martha Foley
TAUNY Cookbook Wins National Award
Feb 02, 2001 — The Traditional Arts In Upstate New York's cookbook, Good Food, Served Righthas won first place in the 2000 Tobasco Community Cookbook Competition. Martha Foley has more. Go to full article
Understanding Einstein through Soap Bubbles
Jan 29, 2001 — Martha Foley talks with Dr. Frank Morgan, a visiting Professor of Math at SUNY Potsdam. Go to full article
Grazing Land Management
Jan 23, 2001 — Martha Foley and Karen Smith, spokeswoman for the New York State Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative, discuss the future of the Adirondack North Country region’s dairy cattle and livestock grazing program. Go to full article
Tug Hill Field Guide
Jan 19, 2001 — Martha Foley talks with Dr. Glenn Johnson, a biology professor at SUNY Potsdam, about a new field guide to plants and animals in the Tug Hill region. Go to full article
Avalanche Awareness
Jan 15, 2001 — Last year, the region was shocked by an avalanche that killed a skier in the Adirondack back country. It was a wakeup call—for skiers and the Department of Environmental Conservation's rangers. This year, rangers are hoping an education program and heightened awareness of the potential for dangerous avalanches will keep the public safe. Martha Foley has more. Go to full article
School Aid Reform
Jan 12, 2001 — A state supreme court justice has given New York eight months to reform the way school aid is shared among over 700 districts across the state. The ruling said the state is violating its own constitution, illegally shortchanging children in poor districts. The New York State School Boards Association is welcoming the decision, but acknowledges that a difficult balancing act must now begin in earnest. Martha Foley has more. Go to full article
The New PINS Law
Jan 09, 2001 — Martha Foley talks with St. Lawrence County Probation Director Francine Peretta about new legislation giving parents legal control of 17- and 18-year-olds. The new "PINS" law is being praised by parent groups, but will be complicated and expensive for counties. Go to full article
Labor Day 1987 Milk Dump
Sep 01, 1987 — North Country farmers dumped milk to protest low milk prices fifteen years ago, on Labor Day, 1987. Dumping is the ultimate step for the farmer who has raised the cow, kept her, milked her. But theirs was more than a symbolic gesture. Two dozen farms were hoping their milk strike would catch on--that enough farmers would join in to turn the law of supply and demand to their cause. They were remembering the milk strike of 1967. Martha Foley visited the Mitchell farm just outside Canton and filed the story for North Country Public Radio, and NPR. At that time, there were 860 active farms in St. Lawrence County, one of the top dairy counties east of the Mississippi. They were making more per hundredweight of milk than farmers did in August 2002. Go to full article
Sweetgrass Baskets
Jul 15, 1987 — Martha Foley followed the scent of sweetgrass to find a group of Mohawk women making baskets at the 1987 North Country Folklife Festival in Massena. Go to full article
Portrait of Helen Hosmer by Juan Martinez
Helen M. Hosmer: An audio biography
Dec 02, 1985 — Dr. Helen M Hosmer, Dean Emerita of the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam, retired in 1966 after 44 years at the school. Among the forefront of music educators in the United States, her mark on the school she served endures today, as it does on the countless students who passed through Crane over the years. Martha Foley prepared this audio biography on the occasion of Crane's Centennial year. Go to full article
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