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
660 – 680

Sam Brooks & Former Monterey Basketball Coach Adam West

Sam Brooks visits with Adam West, the former basketball coach at Monterey High School. Adam talks about if he's watching as much film and as many basketball games even though he's no longer coaching, how special it was with three former Upper Cumberland athletes playing on the same floor recently,…
29 Dec 2022 10AM 34 min

Bob Bell & Tennessee Tech's Karen Lykins

Bob Bell meets with Karen Lykins, the new vice president of Enrollment and Communication. Karen discusses her new role at Tennessee Tech as VP for Enrollment and Communication, what the overall enrollment numbers look like this year with the biggest freshman class in history for TTU, and the things parents…
27 Dec 2022 10AM 34 min

Ben Rodgers & 2022 A Year In Review

Ben Rodgers reviews his 2022 as he looks back on several interviews with guests. Ben looks back at interviews like Putnam Co. jail updates, educational funding in Tennessee, the four county mayors discuss how they used ARP funding, Cookeville's new visitor's shop in downtown, raises going to and non-public safety…
23 Dec 2022 10AM 34 min

Sam Brooks & Personal Trainer Kendra Scribner

Sam Brooks sits down with personal trainer Kendra Scribner for a part two. Kendra discusses how much of new year's resolutions is cabin fever or if people are showing a lot more interest, what she calls "non-scale victories" and not focusing on what the scale says but how our body…
22 Dec 2022 10AM 34 min

Bob Bell & Putnam County Schools

Bob Bell visits with Leslie Eldridge, Leah Burnett, and Rhonda England-Chaffin from the Putnam Co. School System. Leslie, Leah, and Rhonda discuss their backgrounds working with Putnam County Schools and the programs their involved with, how the grant of $4.5 million dollar Innovative School grant will be used and how…
20 Dec 2022 10AM 34 min

Ben Rodgers & Upper Cumberland Development District's Tommy Lee

Ben Rodgers meets with Tommy Lee, the deputy director for the Planning and Community Development Department at UCDD. Tommy talks on his family life in Livingston and starting his career selling furniture, is team he works with in the planning and community development department, and the type of grants the…
16 Dec 2022 10AM 34 min

Sam Brooks & Personal Trainer Kendra Scribner

Sam Brooks meets with Kendra Scribner, a local personal trainer and weight loss coach. Kendra discusses her knowledge in fitness after having a general interest, losing 70 lbs. after having her first child and all the behind the scenes work that went into the journey, and getting certified as a…
15 Dec 2022 10AM 34 min

Bob Bell & Putnam Co. School's Melanie Bussell And Jason Stickler

On today's Local Matters…Bob Bell visits with Melanie Bussell and Jason Stickler, the RTI supervisor and testing and data supervisor from Putnam County Schools. Melanie and Jason discuss their extensive backgrounds in education while both being from Cookeville, what the three tiers mean from what the data shows and how…
13 Dec 2022 10AM 34 min

Ben Rodgers & New Register of Deeds John Sanders

Ben Rodgers talks to John Sanders, the newly elected Register of Deeds for Putnam County. John talks about the journey through the election and how someone gets into a caucus, some of the biggest notices and surprises he's had in his first two weeks on the job, some of the…
9 Dec 2022 10AM 34 min

Sam Brooks & EJ Williams, Owner Of Workout Anytime

Sam Brooks visits with EJ Williams, the owner of Workout Anytime in Cookeville. EJ talks about being the owner and changing the perception of what people have of a gym, what led to moving the location of Workout Anytime to over off South Willow, and how people can reach their…
8 Dec 2022 10AM 34 min

Sam Brooks: Meet EJ Williams, Owner Of Workout Anytime

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…
7 Dec 2022 6PM 34 min

Sam Brooks: Meet EJ Williams, Owner Of Workout Anytime

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…
7 Dec 2022 6PM 34 min

Bob Bell & Tennessee Tech's Dr. Jeff Roberts

Bob Bell meets with Dr. Jeff Roberts, the Dean for the College Of Arts And Sciences at TTU. Serving as the arts and sciences dean, Jeff talks about the complexity of the department what the history books will say about the current time with topics like the pandemic and situation…
6 Dec 2022 10AM 37 min

Bob Bell:Tennessee Tech's Dr. Jeff Roberts

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…
5 Dec 2022 8PM 37 min

Caroline Moore & Visual Effects Designer Darby Faccinto

Caroline Moore talks to Darby Faccinto, a visual effects designer that has worked on series such as Loki and the new movie Black Adam. Darby discusses how it feels to go see a movie in theatres that he helped work on, if he'd rather have directions to stick to on…
5 Dec 2022 10AM 33 min

Caroline Moore: MVisual Effects Designer Darby Faccinto

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…
3 Dec 2022 12PM 33 min

Ben Rodgers & CityScape's Executive Director Lorie Krauss

Ben Rodgers visits with Lorie Krauss, the new executive director of CityScape. Lorie talks about her family's deep roots in Cookeville and starting with the Development District, how she saw the job advertisement and finding out more about the position leading her to submit her resume, how the state is…
2 Dec 2022 10AM 34 min

Sam Brooks & Prescott South Middle School Athletic Director Justin Campbell

Sam Brooks meets with Justin Campbell, the AD at Prescott South Middle School. Justin talks about his family and growing up close to Jamestown in the Allard community, his father being his mentor and influence when it comes to a lot of things in education, and what attracted him to…
1 Dec 2022 10AM 34 min

Sam Brooks: Meet Prescott South Middle School Athletic Director Justin Campbell

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…
30 Nov 2022 11AM 34 min

Sam Brooks: MeetPrescott South Middle School Athletic Director Justin Campbell

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…
30 Nov 2022 11AM 34 min
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