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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1,633 Episodes
600 – 620

Tiffany Anton & Tennessee Tech University's Center for Rural Innovation

Tiffany Anton sits down with Andrea Kruskza from Tennessee Tech's Center for Rural Innovation. The duo discusses what the Center for Rural Innovation is, how owning her own business has helped her grow as an employee in other jobs, and the importance of Eagle Works as it highlights entrepreneurship and…
26 Apr 2023 10AM 34 min

Bob Bell & Meet Science Teacher from the VITAL Program Tasha Walker

Bob Bell visits with science teacher in the VITAL Program from Putnam County Schools Tasha Walker & Principal Shannon Pirtle. They talk about Tasha's background as she loved going to school as a kid, the challenges of relating to the students while not having them in the classroom, and what…
25 Apr 2023 10AM 34 min

Caroline Moore & Meet Thor McNeil

Caroline Moore sits down with Thor McNeil, owner of Fragrant Mushroom Gallery in Sparta. They look at how he exactly got his name Thor, what his initial college degree is in and how it was structured, and his path to living in Sparta with his wife and getting back in…
24 Apr 2023 10AM 34 min

Ben Rodgers & Cookeville Housing Authority

Ben Rodgers talks to Chris Cassetty and Dow Harris from the Cookeville Housing Authority. They discuss what property was sold in Clay County and why it was sold, what qualifies a family to live in developments built by Cookeville Housing Authority, and the partnership with some schools and the city…
21 Apr 2023 10AM 34 min

Sam Brooks & Cookeville High School Girls' Basketball

Sam Brooks meets with Jamie Gillies, head girls basketball coach at Cookeville High School. They go over the special feeling of making it to state for the second straight year as only eight teams go from each class, how to keep the girls motivated night in and night out while…
20 Apr 2023 10AM 34 min

Tiffany Anton & Meet Owner of Sobarity, Mike Gomez

Tiffany Anton sits down with the owner of Sobarity, Mike Gomez. Together they touch on what "Sobarity" is and the purpose behind it, how wanting to own a business and working to become sober meshed into this idea, and meeting the small business community in Cookeville and what has changed…
19 Apr 2023 10AM 34 min

Caroline Moore & The Cookeville High School Cast of "Anastasia"

Caroline Moore sits down with directors Michael Choate, Jennifer Welch, and the cast of the play Anastasia performed by students at Cookeville High School. The group discusses the motivation both teachers have to join the theatre scene in the Upper Cumberland, what led to breaking the casts up to an…
17 Apr 2023 10AM 34 min

Ben Rodgers & Jim Hart, Heather Duncan, & Mike Galey

Ben Rodgers sits down with Criminal Justice consultant Jim Hart, and County Government consultants Heather Duncan and Mike Galey. The group discusses their career paths to what they are doing now, the challenges they encountered while trying to find a balance with personal life, and the conversations that counties have…
14 Apr 2023 10AM 34 min

Tiffany Anton & The Glass Tangerine's Emma Crabtree

Tiffany Anton visits with Emma Crabtree, owner of The Glass Tangerine in Cookeville. Emma and Tiffany look at what the Glass Tangerine is and what they offer, having the vision of what Emma wanted but also needing to workshop it some through Covid, and what about opening a shop in…
12 Apr 2023 10AM 34 min

Bob Bell & Tennessee Tech College of Business

Bob Bell visits with Dr. Tom Payne, Dean of the College of Business at Tennessee Tech University. Bob and Tom look at banking education and discussing schools like LSU's School of Banking or The Tennessee Bankers' Association, teachable moments over the past few weeks and what can be learned from…
11 Apr 2023 10AM 34 min

Caroline Moore & Tennessee Tech Adjunct Theatre Teacher Prudence Van Aalten

Caroline Moore sits down with Prudence Van Aalten, an adjunct theatre teacher from TTU. The two look over how Prudence found her way to Tennessee from growing up in California, how the decision came to pursue acting academically, and getting burnt out living in New York and moving to Tennessee…
10 Apr 2023 10AM 34 min

Ben Rodgers & New Cookeville Cityscape Executive Director Ferran Kefauver

Ben Rodgers talks to the new executive director at Cookeville Cityscape, Ferran Kefauver. Ben and Ferran Ferran's background going from Livingston to Carson-Newman then eventually coming back to Cookeville, what the official role of Cityscape is with the Cream City sign, and more on the Taste of the Town event…
7 Apr 2023 10AM 34 min

Sam Brooks & Former Chamber of Commerce President George Halford

Sam Brooks meets with George Halford, the former president of the Cookeville Chamber of Commerce. Sam and George discuss growing up in Meridian, Mississippi with sports playing a big part in family life, a middle school teacher that influenced George through public speaking, and the drive and being singularly focused…
6 Apr 2023 10AM 34 min

Tiffany Anton & Plenty On Spring's Lisa Uhrik and Ashley Michael

Tiffany Anton sits down with owners of Plenty on Spring's Lisa Uhrik and Ashley Michael. The three discuss the diverse background Lisa's other business Franklin Fixtures has, how Ashley found her way into business with Lisa and their relationship, and how it has been for the both of them teaching…
5 Apr 2023 10AM 34 min

Bob Bell & Putnam Co. Schools Diana Wood & Chris Winningham

On today's Local Matters...Bob Bell visits with Diana Wood and Chris Winningham from Putnam Co. Schools' Central Office. Together they go over what both their roles encompass working out of central office, what triggers the need for a tutor or a student to attend summer learning camp, and how parents…
4 Apr 2023 10AM 34 min

Caroline Moore & Meet Tennessee Tech Music Professor Dr. Colin Hill

Caroline Moore talks with Dr. Colin Hill from TTU's College of Music. Colin talks about beginning his teaching career when he was a sophomore in college, the interaction with Tennessee Tech and the music scene in Nashville, going over the successful habits of musicians and what separates those to go…
3 Apr 2023 10AM 34 min

Ben Rodgers & Former Putnam County Commissioner Mike Atwood

On today's Local Matters...Ben Rodgers sits down with former Putnam County Commissioner Mike Atwood. Together they talk about Mike's background spending his childhood in Alabama before moving back to Lebanon where he was born, the story of moving to Putnam County in 2005 then running for county commission in 2006, and…
31 Mar 2023 10AM 34 min

Sam Brooks & Golden Eagle Golf Club's Matt Manzaro

Sam Brooks meets with the Matt Manzaro from the Golden Eagle Golf Club here in Cookeville. The two talk about Matt being the manager of the Golden Eagle Golf Club and teaching some physical education classes there as well, thoughts on the golf industry's worth and the opportunities that have…
30 Mar 2023 10AM 34 min
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