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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1,634 Episodes
780 – 800

Ben Rodgers & City Of Livingston Updates

Ben Rodgers sits down with Curtis Hayes, Mayor of the City of Livingston. They discuss what led to him deciding to be a public servant, and running for City Council, and eventually Mayor, growth in the Upper Cumberland, the types of growth that he is seeing in Livingston, as well…
6 May 2022 10AM 34 min

Sam Brooks & Meet Coach Gerald Brown Pt 2

Sam Brooks continues to sit down with Coach Gerald Brown. They discuss what it was like when he first came to Tennessee Tech University as a coach, how the game of football has changed over the years, and how the spread offense has influenced that change, as well as how…
5 May 2022 10AM 34 min

Bob Bell & Cybersecurity Education And Cookeville High School Pt 1

Bob Bell sits down with Cookeville High School Cybersecurity instructor Scott Waites, and Cookeville High School Cybersecurity Team members and students Nathan Papa and Landon Byrge. They discuss Scott's background, how the students found out and became interested in joining the CHS Cybersecurity Team, the importance of keeping complex passwords…
3 May 2022 10AM 34 min

Ben Rodgers & Upper Cumberland Family Justice Center

Ben Rodgers meets with Amy Stockwell, Director of the Upper Cumberland Family Justice Center. They discuss her background in public service, an overview of her career, what role the Board of Directors serves for the Family Justice Center, the services that the Family Justice Center provides, as well as the…
29 Apr 2022 10AM 34 min

Sam Brooks & Meet Coach Gerald Brown Pt 1

Sam Brooks sits down with Coach Gerald Brown. They discuss his family and early life growing up in Sweetwater, what led to him realizing that football was something that he wanted to play at the college level, who some of the other grad assistants and coaches were at UT during…
28 Apr 2022 10AM 34 min

Bob Bell & Whitson-Hester School Of Nursing And National Nurses Week

Bob Bell meets with Dr. Barbara Jared, Director of the Whitson-Hester School of Nursing at Tennessee Tech University, and Dr. Kim Hanna, Dean of the Whitson-Hester School of Nursing. They discuss who Florence Nightingale was, her importance in the field of nursing, what National Nurses Week is, when it takes…
26 Apr 2022 10AM 34 min

Ben Rodgers & Putnam County Commission Recent Updates

Ben Rodgers sits down with Putnam County Mayor Randy Porter, and Putnam County Attorney Jeff Jones. They discuss and recap the County's recent Commission meeting, the potential for a hotel at the new expo center/fairgrounds on Tennessee Avenue, the decision to apply for the federal RAISE Grant to assist with…
22 Apr 2022 10AM 34 min

Sam Brooks & Tennessee Tech University Assistant Basketball Coach

Sam Brooks talks with Tennessee Tech University Assistant Basketball Coach Allison Clark. They discuss the lead up to the basketball season, and the work that the Golden Eagles Women's Basketball team has put in to prepare, what it means for their current team to be a player-led team, as well…
21 Apr 2022 10AM 34 min

Bob Bell & 2022 Putnam County Teachers of the Year

Bob Bell sits down with the 2022 Putnam County Teachers Of The Year - Sycamore Elementary School's Jennifer Peek, Upperman Middle School's Charity Bowie, and Upperman High School's Taylor Key. They discuss their respective backgrounds, education, and the subjects that they teach, the challenges of shifting to remote learning during…
19 Apr 2022 10AM 34 min

Ben Rodgers & Cookeville-Putnam County Visitors Bureau New Director Of Tourism

Ben Rodgers meets with Shan Stout, the new Director of Tourism for the Cookeville-Putnam County Visitors Bureau. They discuss her background, the story of her career, how she got into photography, how she became the Cookeville-Putnam County Visitors Bureau's new Director Of Tourism, the Bureau's various partnerships, as well as…
15 Apr 2022 10AM 34 min

Sam Brooks & Basketball And Family

Sam Brooks meets with former Tennessee Tech Basketball players Chad Crouch, Amy Crouch, and their daughter, Upperman basketball player Brooklyn Crouch. They discuss the dynamic that basketball has played in their family, especially considering Brooklyn's success this year, Brooklyn's decision to attend and play for Upperman High School, and what…
14 Apr 2022 10AM 34 min

Bob Bell & New Putnam County Library Director

Bob Bell meets with Kathryn Wisinger, the new appointed Director of the Putnam County Library. They discuss her background, growing up in Cookeville, what brought her to the Putnam County Library, the various special classes that the library hosts for children, as well as the library's Board of Trustees, and…
12 Apr 2022 10AM 34 min

Ben Rodgers & Cookeville-Putnam County Chamber of Commerce President & CEO

Ben Rodgers talks with Amy New, President & CEO of the Cookeville-Putnam County Chamber of Commerce. They discuss what the Chamber has going on currently that she is excited for, changes surrounding the Visitors Bureau, the downtown Visitors Shop, the importance of the Leslie Town Centre, as well as some…
8 Apr 2022 10AM 34 min

Sam Brooks & Cookeville Lady Cavaliers Basketball Senior Players

Sam Brooks talks with Cookeville High School Lady Cavaliers Basketball senior players Bailey Gillies and KK Graves. They discuss what their experiences were like progressing through CHS's basketball program from the time they were freshmen to now as seniors, the relationship that they have with the community and fellow CHS…
7 Apr 2022 10AM 34 min

Bob Bell & Tennessee Tech University College of Agriculture And Human Ecology

Bob Bell sits down with Darron Smith, Dean of the College of Agriculture and Human Ecology at Tennessee Tech University. They discuss his background, education, and career, the majors that are available under the College of Agriculture and Human Ecology, as well as an overview of the various farms and…
5 Apr 2022 10AM 34 min

Ben Rodgers & Cumberland, Jackson, Smith, And White County Updates Pt 2

Ben Rodgers sits down with White County Executive Denny Wayne Robinson, Smith County Mayor Jeff Mason, Cumberland County Mayor Allen Foster, and Jackson County Mayor Randy Heady. They continue to discuss the various projects, updates, and issues in their respective counties, the Tennessee State EMS Advocate Award that Cumberland County…
1 Apr 2022 10AM 34 min

Sam Brooks & Meet Tennessee Tech University's Bert Browne

Sam Brooks sits down with Bert Browne, Tennessee Tech University Football Coach, and former record setting Quarterback at TTU. They discuss his background and how he ended up at TTU, his time coaching under Eastern Kentucky University's Roy Kidd, as well as what his expectations are for Golden Eagle Football…
31 Mar 2022 10AM 34 min

Bob Bell & Putnam Education Partnership Foundation

Bob Bell talks with Katelyn Steakley, Executive Director of the Putnam Education Partnership Foundation. They discuss what the Putnam Education Partnership Foundation is, what her role as Executive Director entails, how their mission has evolved since its inception, what their current vision is, and what some of their initiatives are…
29 Mar 2022 10AM 34 min

Ben Rodgers & Cumberland, Jackson, Smith, And White County Updates

Ben Rodgers sits down with White County Executive Denny Wayne Robinson, Smith County Mayor Jeff Mason, Cumberland County Mayor Allen Foster, and Jackson County Mayor Randy Heady. They discuss The Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA), and its school overhaul funding, the various projects that they have currently going on…
25 Mar 2022 10AM 34 min

Sam Brooks & Meet Marty Cook

Sam Brooks meets with retired teacher and coach, Marty Cook. They discuss his family and career, what led to him retiring from teaching, his time coaching baseball, and who some of the key players were throughout his coaching career, as well as why Sycamore Elementary School in Cookeville was such…
24 Mar 2022 10AM 34 min
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