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NCPR News Staff: Martha Foley
News and Public Affairs Director
Below are news stories filed by Martha Foley.
Martha Foley talks with horticulturist Amy Ivy about filling those bare spots in the garden. Maybe you've dug up the garlic or finished off the spinach. Amy has ideas for those "opportunities" in the vegetable garden.
NCPR and TAUNY, Traditional Arts in Upstate New York, have been keeping track of gardens across the North Country in a project we call The Garden Plot.
At midsummer, our plot has grown, just like the gardens we've been watching. Martha Foley talks with TAUNY's Jill Breit about what we've learned from gardeners about growing vegetables and collaborating on the internet.
Loon on Lake Ozonia, submitted as Photo of the Day 7/7/10. Photo: Joe Woody
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Volunteers fanned out over 330 lakes for the annual Adirondack loon count Saturday. It was the tenth annual "count," and many of those volunteers have participated since the beginning, often reporting on loons they've come to know over the years. Zoe Smith is the director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Adirondack Program. She tells Martha Foley it's that personal commitment that fuels the effort to track the region's loon population. More...
It's kind of jungle-y in lots of gardens this summer. Hot weather and drenching rains in many parts of the region are fueling what can seem like miles of vines, from beans and cucumbers to clematis and honeysuckle. Amy Ivy tells Martha Foley how trellises and other garden structures can help the garden grow. (send us a picture of your trellis, fence, or pergola: e-mail to martha@ncpr.org)
A Siena College Research Institute poll shows more New Yorkers blame the state legislature for the late state budget and the state's dismal finances, than they do Gov. David Paterson. Siena's Steve Greenberg says when respondents were asked to give the legislature a grade, half flunked them, and a quarter said they were barely passing. "Three quarters of the voters say the legislature deserves a D or an F for their work on the budget," he said, while Gov. Paterson's average is closer to a C-minus. As Martha Foley reports, that’s not good in an election year. More...
Perseid meteors are also known as St. Lawrence's Tears, since the shower occurs near his August 10 feast day
Venus is high, planets on the inside track of the solar system will be moving through the night sky in the coming weeks, and there's the Perseid meteor shower to look for. St. Lawrence University physics professor (and astronomer) Aileen O'Donoghue made another visit to our studios this morning. She shared a long list of night sky news with Martha Foley.
Gov. David Paterson was in Lake Placid yesterday for two "good news" events. He celebrated the Mt. Van Hoevenberg bobrun's long history, and signed an anti-DWI bill named after Olympian Jack Shea, who died in a crash with an alleged drunk driver eight years ago.
But state funding is crucial to the Olympic Regional Development Authority and the facilities it operates. So when the handshakes were all over, there were questions to answer. Martha Foley has more.
Martha Foley and horticulturist Amy Ivy talk about trimming, pruning and cleanup work in the flower beds.
Coast Guard crews shifted ballast and cargo to re-float the Canadian freighter, Algobay, last night. The 740-foot long ship lost power Sunday morning and ran aground on Superior Shoal, near Chippewa Bay. That's not far downriver from where an oil tanker ran aground in 1976. The 1976 spill, known locally as the Slick of '76, remains one of the biggest inland oil spills in the country's history.
A spokeswoman for the St. Lawrence Seaway Authority said there was no threat of fuel leaks or other pollution from the Algobay. Martha Foley has more.
Whatever the final numbers of New York State's still-unfinished budget turn out to be, they probably mean harder times for counties. Counties are the middleman between the state and its people, delivering services mandated by state law, then collecting reimbursement for their costs from state revenues. But the reimbursement rates are falling, just as demand for services is rising as hard economic times continue.
Roger Wickes, County Attorney for rural Washington County, tells Martha Foley the squeeze is getting worse.
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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.
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