Local Matters
Education, Sports, Faith & Everything In Between Originating from News Talk 94.1 the show deals with community issues and interests that affect listeners closer to home. With topics from major events across the nation and how they impact our area to interesting people and figures from across the Upper Cumberland. Local Matters is where local, matters. Covering the issues that matter to you. Every weekday.
Episodes
April 22, 2024 • 34 mins
George Halford sits down and talks with the City Manager of Algood Keith Morrison. They touch on his biggest surprise when moving into a role away from retail that still required management, Keith's involvement in the Rail Trail and outdoor opportunities in the community, and wanting to carry on the culture of service ranging to different levels.
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April 19, 2024 • 34 mins
Ben Rodgers talks with Derrick Hutchings, a county commissioner for White County. They discuss life before the county commission from racing cars to raising quarter horses, if the commission sees a lot of White County citizens attend and speak regularly at meetings, and his excitement being on the budget committee and different things he has learned thus far.
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April 17, 2024 • 34 mins
Tiffany Anton sits down with Nathan Heady & Joe Kalis of Upper Cumberland Cards, a sports cards and collectibles trading business. They touch on if they feel like they're sports enthusiasts or if collecting cards is separate, how often they get approached by someone trying to know more about a box of cards they found, and Joe talks more about how this has become a business when it just started as a hobby.
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April 16, 2024 • 34 mins
Buddy Pearson meets with Monterey High School Math teacher Blake Van Winkle. They discuss his new role leaving the everyday classroom to be more county wide, how hard was it to teach in the old Monterey High School from the challenges it presented, and his thoughts on the statement that "AI is to education as to what calculators were to math".
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April 12, 2024 • 34 mins
George Halford visits with Chuck Womack, a well-known member of the community as a former Urologist, mayor of Cookeville and a big supporter of the outdoors. They talk about how Chuck became hooked on the Tennessee outdoors, the different opportunities in the outdoors from visiting state parks to hang gliding, and what he sees in the future of the Rail Trails over the next several years.
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April 12, 2024 • 34 mins
Ben Rodgers sits down with the Director of the Putnam Co. Parks & Recreation Department Cody Maynard. They discuss what led to Cody applying with the parks department, the department's involvement with planning the Christmas decorations at the courthouse, and how much time they spend working on the soccer fields.
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April 10, 2024 • 34 mins
Tiffany Anton talks with Crossville's Lindsey Armes, owner of the Pretty Clothes Shoppe. They touch on if Lindsey was feeling burned out from teaching when she opened up the shop, all about their Lots of Love program that helps four women a month from outfits to resumes, & what the consumer can feel when inside the shop.
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April 9, 2024 • 34 mins
Buddy Pearson visits with Ross Fanning, the athletics director at Upperman High School. They talk about f there is a budget for each sport when it comes to fundraising, his interest in teaching biology going all the way back to a high school teacher he had, and how much has high school changed in 20 years.
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April 8, 2024 • 34 mins
George Halford visits with Sam Glasgow, a retired pathologist in Cookeville and a major role player with Rails For Trails in Putnam County. Sam talks about his early journeys around the globe both starting and ending at Tulane University, the "Ale for The Trail" events that began in the late 2000s, and how the group worked around the difficulty of going up Brotherton Mountain.
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April 5, 2024 • 34 mins
Ben Rodgers talks with Smith County Mayor Jeff Mason. Jeff recaps a meeting in Nashville that involves a zinc mine in Smith County that would bring some economic development, updates on the budget and what the outlook is plus when the committee has met, and if they have spent all of the ARP money with the deadline coming up.
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April 3, 2024 • 34 mins
Tiffany Anton sits down with the co-owner of Streetlamp Creative Heather Karellas. They touch on what her biggest takeaway is for people that are learning to tell their own story, some exciting things about moving to Cookeville from the resources to business community as a whole, and where the name Streetlamp Creative comes from.
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April 2, 2024 • 34 mins
Buddy Pearson visits with Career & Technical Education teacher Susie Dobbs, teacher of the AV class at Upperman High School. They talk about the process of getting equipment to build the program to what Susie envisioned, Susie talks about her background hailing from Nebraska to college in Chicago to her career before teaching, & what a wish list would look like for her class if she had one today.
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April 1, 2024 • 34 mins
George Halford talks with Marvin Bullock, the former Chamber President for the White County Chamber of Commerce & a sincere outdoor enthusiast. Marvin talks about how he found his passion for the outdoors, a cross country motor home trip he is planning out involving US Highway 70, how tourism with our area parks to our region helps the economic development flourish.
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March 29, 2024 • 34 mins
Ben Rodgers talks with Molly Brown, the Tourism Coordinator for the Upper Cumberland Development District. They talk about how long the Development District has had a tourism department and what its goal is, the "why" behind the show Wish You Were Here through WCTE, & what's different about applying and working for grants with her new job.
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March 27, 2024 • 34 mins
Tiffany Anton visits with Tyler Buck, owner of Baskin Robbins in Cookeville. They touch on if Tyler ever thought about leaving Cookeville to open a business, was there a struggle to purchasing a franchise compared to starting something new, & how is he manages his age not getting in the way with buying land and furthering his ventures.
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March 26, 2024 • 34 mins
Buddy Pearson talks with Carrin Nash, from Putnam County's VITAL School. They talk about the first thing he tells them when someone wants to know about VITAL, if teaching & coaching had always been apart of what he wanted to do, & if there are other grants that are coming down the pike to help make the learning process better.
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March 25, 2024 • 34 mins
George Halford meets with Jenny Spurlock, Case Worker & Constituent Services for the office of Congressman John Rose. The two touch on the experience of opening JJ Jax with her mother & it being more than a gift shop, remembering some of the projects she saw during her time with Leadership Putnam, and her role today with Congressman's John Rose office serving people every day
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March 22, 2024 • 34 mins
Ben Rodgers visits with Pickett County Executive Stephen Bilbrey. Stephen gives an update on how his term is going a year and a half in, some fishing tournaments that have been organized through the Chamber of Commerce that will also bring in tourism & business, and a budget update as the county prepares for budget season.
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March 20, 2024 • 34 mins
Tiffany Anton visits with Zachary Buckner, the Director of Marketing for the North America Division of Hörmann in Sparta. They discuss if the career change felt different to Zachary when he started with Hörmann, the company's partnership with Franklin Fixtures, and how this position has helped him travel the world to different cities and countries.
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March 19, 2024 • 34 mins
Buddy Pearson talks with Jason Stickler, the Data & Testing Supervisor for the Putnam County School System. Jason talks about the CERT Program the county uses allowing the students to prepare for the ACT at home, how testing affects everything through the state's Department of Education, & what we have learned on the third grade retention law almost a year later.
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