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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1,424 Episodes
440 – 460

Bob Bell & Putnam County Schools' Alicia Upchurch, Margie Cavender, Cindy Queen

Bob Bell talks with the Teachers of the Year in Putnam County Alicia Upchurch, Margie Cavender, and Cindy Queen. The three teachers discuss how they found their way into teaching and what they're currently doing now, what they believe are the most effective teaching practices when it comes to their…
24 Jan 2023 7AM 34 min

Caroline Moore & Meet Impact Cookeville's Brandon Russell

Caroline Moore visits with Impact Cookeville's Brandon Russell. Brandon discusses the art show that is being held to kick off Black History Month, some of the things Brandon learned about himself as he picked up a new passion for gardening, and how artists are able to submit their work for…
23 Jan 2023 7AM 34 min

Ben Rodgers & Meet Overton County Executive Steven Barlow

Ben Rodgers meets with Steven Barlow, the new Overton County Executive. Steven talks about being born and raised in Overton County living half his life in Rickman and the other half in Monroe, what the strategy was when it came time to campaign, and the leadership experiences Steven has had…
20 Jan 2023 7AM 34 min

Bob Bell & Avery Trace Middle School's Alma Anderson

Bob Bell visits with Alma Anderson, the principal at Avery Trace Middle School. Alma talks about Avery Trace discussing certain things like it being an international baccalaureate school, or an IB School, the students and some of the challenges or changes they face, and some of the big celebrations and…
17 Jan 2023 7AM 34 min

Caroline Moore & 2022 Putnam County Fairest of the Fair Addison Bray

Caroline Moore talks with Addison Bray, the 2022 Fairest of the Fair winner for the Putnam County Fair. Addison walks us through the interview process and some of things the contestants do during the week, her journey to being Fairest Of The Fair and if she notices any changes in…
16 Jan 2023 7AM 34 min

Ben Rodgers & Putnam County Mayor Randy Porter

Ben Rodgers meets with Randy Porter, the Putnam County Mayor. Ben and Randy recap the special call meeting the commission held back in December, Putnam County's record setting year in 2022 for building permits, with an increase in homes built, and Randy discusses the completion of the new Patton House…
13 Jan 2023 7AM 34 min

Bob Bell & Tennessee Tech Education Professor Jeremy Wendt

Bob Bell visits with Jeremy Wendt, a professor from TTU's College of Education. Jeremy talks about the Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction, being one of the largest departments at TTU and some of the things they handle, the graduate offerings within the College of Education and what students study, and…
10 Jan 2023 7AM 34 min

Caroline Moore & Owner Of M3 Creative Designer Mya Matthews

Caroline Moore meets with Mya Matthews, the owner of M3 Creative. Mya talks on her medium work like graphic design, social media, and woodcutting, how the consultation process goes with clients with that Mya works with, and why Mya started M3 Creative and what she's found out about herself in…
9 Jan 2023 7AM 34 min

Ben Rodgers & New Dekalb County Mayor Ben Adcock

Ben Rodgers talks to Matt Adcock, the new county mayor for Dekalb County. Matt gives his background mostly working in public safety before running for county mayor, what got him interested in going to county commissions at first then eventually running for the county commission, and how the campaign was…
6 Jan 2023 7AM 34 min

Sam Brooks & Upperman High School Volleyball Coach Barbie Cook

Sam Brooks visits with Barbie Cook, the head volleyball coach at Upperman High School. Barbie discusses the family plans as volleyball is in the middle of the off-season, what some of the high points were for the team this past season, and Focus Volleyball's recent tryouts and how Barbie along…
5 Jan 2023 7AM 34 min

Bob Bell & Tennessee Tech School of Nursing

Bob Bell meets with Barbara Jared, Director of the School of Nursing at Tennessee Tech and former faculty member Rebecca Tolbert. They discuss the celebration that took place back in the fall honoring the first nursing grads from TTU, the School of Nursing's clinical partners, what they do, and what…
3 Jan 2023 7AM 34 min

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 7AM 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 7AM 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 7AM 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 7AM 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 7AM 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 7AM 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 7AM 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 7AM 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 7AM 34 min
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