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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Ben Rodgers & Highlands Training Center

Ben Rodgers meets with Ryan Barnhart & Stacey Baxter from Highlands Training Center. The group touches on what inspired the Highlands Training Center, the different challenges both Stacey and Ryan have seen in the first year plus, and the type of person they are looking to work with every day…
9 Feb 10AM 34 min

Sam Brooks & Workout Anytime

Sam Brooks visits with Jerry Pugh and EJ Williams, owners of Workout Anytime, continuing the discussion on fitness. Jerry and EJ discuss their resolutions in the new year, discussing some of the trends the gym has with different recovery methods, and how the gym got started and rapidly became something…
8 Feb 10AM 34 min

Tiffany Anton & Small Business Development Center of The Upper Cumberland

Tiffany Anton is talks with Kelly Sullivan, the director of the Tennessee Small Business Development Center for the Upper Cumberland region. The two discuss what the Small Business Development Center is, different fears people have when it comes to managing a small business, advice Kelly has for people who do…
7 Feb 10AM 34 min

George Halford & Meet Mark Odom, Rogers Group Marketing & Infrastructure Consultant

George Halford meets with Mark Odom, a Marketing and Infrastructure Consultant for the Rogers Group that has been involved in different areas of the Upper Cumberland. Mark discusses a co-op he was apart of with McDowell Road Builders, his family's involvement in Upper Cumberland basketball from Tennessee Tech to the…
5 Feb 10AM 34 min

Sam Brooks: Meet Workout Anytime Co-Owner Jerry Pugh

Sam Brooks talks with Workout Anytime Gym co-owner Jerry Pugh. Jerry talks about the growth of the gyms with 20 locations spread across six states, what attracted Jerry to working in EMS, and everything a person can expect when they walk in the gym for the first time. Listen to…
1 Feb 10AM 34 min

Tiffany Anton & Meet Christine Faccinto, Thunderhawk Canine

Tiffany Anton talks with Christine Faccinto, the owner of Thunderhawk Canine in Cookeville. Christine talks about her path to her career today coming from a background dealing with animals, the value of having your pets being trained, & what it was like breaking into the community when she first arrived. …
31 Jan 10AM 34 min

Buddy Pearson & School Board Appreciation Pt. 2

Buddy Pearson talks with three more members of the Putnam Co. School Board as School Board Appreciation continues. Lynn McHenry touches on the different jobs board members allows for a good mix of backgrounds, how Dawn has been able to show the ropes to some newer members, and what keeps…
30 Jan 10AM 34 min

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
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