News Talk 94.1 Local Matters

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.
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1,259 Episodes
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George Halford & Meet Larry Bragga, Former Mayor, Educator, & Coach

George Halford meets with Larry Bragga, a former educator, mayor, & baseball coach. Larry talks about assuming the head baseball coach and assistant basketball coach his first year teaching high school, moving to Cookeville to help his son Matt upstart Tennessee Tech baseball, & his experience when the program started…
29 Jan 10AM 34 min

Ben Rodgers & Town of Baxter's Lindsey Bruce & Kelly Fitzpatrick

Ben Rodgers talks with Lindsey Bruce and Kelly Fitzpatrick from the town of Baxter on the grant they are working on to improve the downtown. They discuss what Baxter offers to the public from a business owner's perspective, how long the process took to buy the properties and getting them…
26 Jan 10AM 34 min

Sam Brooks & Former Monterey Boys' Basketball Player Peyton West

Sam Brooks is joined by Peyton West, a former member of the boys' basketball team at Monterey High School. They begin with discussing the 2020 season when playing at Vol State , the experience going from middle school basketball to high school basketball as a freshman, and how it was…
25 Jan 10AM 34 min

Tiffany Anton & Meet Cleanse Wellness Spa's Lisa Garcia

Tiffany Anton visits with Lisa Garcia, the owner of Cleanse Wellness Spa in Cookeville. They discuss what the motivation was for Lisa to start a different kind of wellness spa, some of the success stories she's seen in just over a year of doing this in Cookeville, and the other…
24 Jan 10AM 34 min

Buddy Pearson & School Board Appreciation Week Pt. 1

Buddy Pearson is joined by Putnam County School Board members Jill Ramsey, Kerry Ledbetter, & Kim Cravens. Jill talks about where she started her teaching career and how it progressed, what prompted Kerry to run a spot on the Putnam Co. School Board, & Kim discusses her inspiration to run…
23 Jan 10AM 34 min

Sam Brooks & Former Tennessee Tech Baseball Player Jake New

Sam Brooks meets with Jake New, former member for the Tennessee Tech baseball team and pro baseball player. They talk about what Jake's experience was like in the recruitment process to come to Tennessee Tech, how good the players are at that level of rookie league baseball, possible new legislation…
18 Jan 10AM 34 min

Tiffany Anton & Pamela Claytor Photography

Tiffany Anton visits with Pamela Claytor, owner of Pamela Claytor Photography in Cookeville. They touch on how she impacts women during the boudoir and pin-up sessions, if Pamela ever thought shooting magazine covers would ever become part of her career plan, and what is something that keeps her going in…
17 Jan 10AM 34 min

Buddy Pearson & Putnam County Director of Schools Pt. 2

Buddy Pearson meets with Putnam Co. Director of Schools Corby King for a part two of their conversation. Corby talks about the four new principals that took over within the county, some things that came up in 2023 that he felt very passionate about, & what we can expect to…
16 Jan 10AM 34 min

Sam Brooks & Meet Jackson County Volleyball's Rachael Lynn

Sam Brooks sits down with Rachael Lynn, a junior on the volleyball team at Jackson County High School. They discuss all that it takes for Rachael's parents to support her to play the sport she loves, and different things she has seen with Coach Lucas Martin in his first year…
11 Jan 10AM 34 min

Tiffany Anton & Privy Clear Co-Founder Sara Chambers

Tiffany Anton meets with Sara Chambers, the co-founder of Privy Clear Advertising and Marketing. They look at how the learning curve has been learning about the different businesses and industries they work in, what 10-year-old Sara's plan was for her life, and the difference between a boosted post and an…
10 Jan 10AM 34 min

Buddy Pearson & Putnam County Director of Schools

On today's Local Matters...Buddy Pearson is joined by Director of Schools for Putnam County Corby King. They talk about Corby talks about the anticipation and excitement the beginning of a new school year as summer break closes, recognizing some different students for their accomplishments during the fall semester, and Tennessee…
9 Jan 10AM 34 min

George Halford & Michael Aikens, Director of Center for Rural Innovation

George Halford talks with Michael Aikens, Director of Center for Rural Innovation at Tennessee Tech. Michael talks about getting his since of entrepreneurship in high school, applying for an ad in a local paper and it leading to his current role in economic development, and helping the more rural counties…
8 Jan 10AM 34 min

Ben Rodgers & Livingston Mayor Curtis Hayes

On today's Local Matters...Ben Rodgers meets with Curtis Hayes, the Mayor of Livingston for 2024's first show. They discuss Curtis gives an update on Livingston one week in to 2024, current projects that are taking place like new pickleball courts, and identifying the sales tax leakage problem that Livingston has…
5 Jan 10AM 34 min

Sam Brooks & Meet Cookeville High School's Mason Taylor

Sam Brooks meets with Mason Taylor, a senior on the Cookeville Cavaliers football team. They discuss what about football interested him when he was growing up, how important the personal growth for him and growth of the program was in 2022, breaking down the 2023 season and a second round…
4 Jan 10AM 34 min

Tiffany Anton & Meet Sassy Stables' Tiera Wester & Russ Moss

Tiffany Anton is sits down with the owners of Sassy Stables Tiera Wester & Russ Moss. They touch on what the vision Tiera had in her mind of what she wanted it to look like, the most exciting thing that they have created or best event they've worked, & if…
3 Jan 10AM 34 min

Ben Rodgers & Putnam Co. School Board Winter Updates

Ben Rodgers meets with members of the Putnam County School Board Lynn McHenry & Kim Cravens.  They touch on what the criteria is for the grades the area schools received from the state Department of Education, an update of the building projects in Putnam County, what enrollment looks like after…
29 Dec 2023 10AM 34 min

Sam Brooks & Meet Former Upperman Basketball Player Dustin Baxter

On today's Local Matters...Sam Brooks is joined by Dustin Baxter, a former basketball player at Upperman High School. Dustin talks about what he would say to upcoming athletes on playing multiple sports, how important AAU was to him in with getting to play against different players outside of the Upper…
28 Dec 2023 10AM 34 min

Tiffany Anton & Connor Giddens, The Foxhole Wellness Group

Tiffany Anton visits with Connor Giddens, owner of The Foxhole Wellness Group in Cookeville. Connor discusses the decision to start a business over being a lactation consultant, if there are any surprises with doing the classes versus one-on-one care at home, and one of the newer services that Fox Hole…
27 Dec 2023 10AM 34 min
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