Military service can change your relationship with food. You have to scarf down your meals in basic training, eat MREs when you’re deployed. Some veterans get out of the military without ever having learned to cook. A program near Rochester is working to help veterans build a better relationship with food - and a sense of community - through cooking and eating together.

Martha Foley and Curt Stager talk about ochre. It’s more than just a color in the Crayola box.

Before it gets too cold, a Potsdam artist is hoping to finish a series of outdoor small-scale murals around the village. Sara Lynch says she wants to add a bit of fun and whimsical artistic details to public spaces - park benches, street signs and brick walls. Her goal is to let viewers know that art should be accessible in even unexpected places.

Sara Lynch says her mural designs range in size from just a few inches to a few yards in height. Earlier this month, she was painting tomatoes and sweet peas on a wooden street sign along a busy intersection. The village has plans to replace the wooden posts with metal signs, but Lynch says that hasn't deterred her public art project.

Todd Moe caught up with Lynch to find out more about her one-woman mission to add some color to downtown Potsdam.

There’s snow! And in the Adirondacks there's skiing. Peter Crowley is well placed to give us the latest; he's managing editor of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, and talks with Martha Foley.

Before Devin Kelley killed 26 people at a Texas church, the Air Force failed to enter his criminal history into the FBI's background check system. Several victims' families are suing.

(Nov 20, 2018) In the fall of 1968 Leroy Peets returned home from the army. He spent some time as a forklift operator for Adirondack Plywood but he wasn’t happy with the job. The following spring Leroy was tipped off about open interviews at the Newton Falls Paper Mill.

In the fall of 1968 Leroy Peet returned home from the army. He spent some time as a forklift operator for Adirondack Plywood but he wasn’t happy with the job. The following spring Leroy was tipped off about open interviews at the Newton Falls Paper Mill.

The North Country has a new detox center to help people safely go through withdrawal from alcohol, heroin, and other drugs.

The 18-bed Recovery Campus in Schuyler Falls, near Plattsburgh, helps fill a huge gap in services. At a ribbon cutting ceremony late last month, officials called the new facility "a beacon of hope."