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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1,579 Episodes
460 – 480

Local Matters With Bob Bell: Bob Bell Heads Into Retirement

Larry Stone talks with Bob Bell in a Local Matters special as Bob heads into retirement. They talk about the view that Bob was given from doing Local Matters, the next step he took when he realized that teaching was what he wanted to do, and when the seed was…
12 Sep 2023 10AM 34 min

Ben Rodgers & Meet Sparta Mayor Jerry Lowery

Ben Rodgers visits with Sparta Mayor and former educator Jerry Lowery. Jerry goes over his background from being in the Navy to spending 33 years as an educator, how being a coach, teacher, and an administrator translates to being a city mayor, and what his process was for deciding to…
8 Sep 2023 10AM 34 min

Sam Brooks & Tennessee Tech Football's Devin Squires

Sam Brooks meets with Devin Squires, a junior on the Tennessee Tech football team. They talk about the excitement the team is feeling with a new season underway, what Tech has to do this year to get where they want to be as a program, and breaking down this year's…
7 Sep 2023 10AM 34 min

Tiffany Anton & Duck Pond Manor's Terra Ballinger

Tiffany Anton visits with Terra Ballinger, owner of the wedding venue Duck Pond Manor in Sparta. They discuss where the thought process and motivation for this space came from, how Terra keeps with all the moving parts that come with the wedding business, and the "one stop shop" feel that…
6 Sep 2023 10AM 34 min

Bob Bell & Putnam County School System's Buddy Pearson

Bob Bell sits down with Buddy Pearson, Supervisor of Communications & Marketing with the Putnam County School System. They talk about more background on Buddy's role as the Supervisor of Communications & Marketing, the hot button issue of truancy within the school system, and going to different schools and seeing…
5 Sep 2023 10AM 34 min

Sam Brooks & Tennessee Tech Head Football Coach Dewayne Alexander

On today's Local Matters...Sam Brooks visits with Dewayne Alexander, the Head Football Coach for the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles. The two discuss recapping the golf tournament and alumni weekend that was in July, highlighting some of the new coaching staff additions in 2023, and how well Tech did in the…
31 Aug 2023 10AM 34 min

Tiffany Anton & Swallows' Insurance

Tiffany Anton meets with Matt and Kelly Swallows of Swallows' Insurance. They talk about the history of Swallows Insurance going back to 1956, how they manage their business plus other things they're involved with, and Matt breaks down in-depth the stuff they help with. Listen to the latest Local Matters…
30 Aug 2023 10AM 34 min

Bob Bell & Shannon Auberson and Wren Goedkin of Algood Middle School

Bob Bell meets with Algood Middle School Librarian Shannon Auberson and 6th grade STEM teacher Wren Goedkin. They look at Shannon's role with the school library and collaboration with different groups & people, how the school's garden project relates to the middle school standards kids have to meet, and the…
29 Aug 2023 10AM 34 min

George Halford & Tennessee Department of Human Services

George Halford meets with Anthony Wesner & Mario Ashley Jr. from the Department of Human Services for the state of Tennessee & Kathryn Wisinger from the Putnam County Library. They discuss the background of the Vocational Rehabilitation Program, the connection the library gives to make it one of the most…
28 Aug 2023 10AM 34 min

Ben Rodgers & The Four Mayors of White, Cumberland, Smith & Jackson Counties

Ben Rodgers talks with the the mayors of White, Cumberland, Smith & Jackson counties. The group discusses Jackson County Mayor Randy Heady breaks down the passing of his budget that included a property tax increase, Cumberland County's Allen Foster on the majority of the county's sales tax that helps the…
25 Aug 2023 10AM 34 min

Sam Brooks: Meet Tennessee Tech Men's Basketball Coach John Pelphrey

Sam Brooks sits down with TTU Men's Basketball Coach John Pelphrey. They talk about how coaching has been a huge part of his family following in his dad's footsteps, John looks back on being a younger athlete playing with older kids in the developmental stage as a kid, and turning…
24 Aug 2023 10AM 34 min

Tiffany Anton & Manager of World Foods Mason Sickles & Asst. Manager Cody Keith

Tiffany Anton talks with Mason Sickles and Cody Keith, the managing staff of World Foods in Cookeville. The three look at where the original vision for World Foods' came from, what's different about Cody's work experience at World Foods' compared to other kitchens he's worked in, and the future is…
23 Aug 2023 10AM 34 min

Bob Bell & Prescott South 5th Grade English Language Arts Teacher Angie Dyer

Bob Bell visits with Angie Dyer, a 5th grade English-Language Arts teacher at Prescott South Middle School. They look at what English-Language Arts, or "ELA", is made up of, baggage that Angie sees students dealing with, both personal and academic, and using the FAIL acronym standing for "First Attempt In…
22 Aug 2023 10AM 34 min

George Halford & Former Putnam County Sheriff Jerry Abston

George Halford sits down with former Putnam County sheriff Jerry Abston. The two discuss Jerry's family and growing up in Putnam County, what he remembers when he ran for sheriff the first time at just 29 years old, and working for Governor Bredesen and the state after retiring in 2002…
21 Aug 2023 10AM 34 min

Ben Rodgers & Meet 911 Director Penny Foister & Asst. Director Josh Womack

Ben Rodgers talks with Director Penny Foister and Asst. Director Josh Womack of the 911 Emergency Communications in Putnam County. The three discuss how 9-1-1's funding keeps them operating daily, why Putnam County might be taking calls from other counties at any point, and what has changed that helps bring…
18 Aug 2023 10AM 34 min

Tiffany Anton & Meet Blakelee Smith, Owner of Skin + Aesthetics

Tiffany Anton with Blakelee Smith, the owner of Cookeville's Skin + Aesthetics.  They discuss what the motivation was deciding to open her own business, how Blakelee figured out all of the things that come with owning a business, and more about the services the business offers and what the most…
16 Aug 2023 10AM 34 min

Bob Bell & Meet Baxter Primary First Grade Teacher Bell Bontrager

Bob Bell meets with Bell Bontrager, a First Grade teacher from Baxter Primary School. They discuss what made Bell choose elementary education and 1st grade specifically, different things she hopes her students learn during the school year, and the math skills that 1st graders pick up throughout the year. Listen…
15 Aug 2023 10AM 34 min
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