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
480 – 500

Bob Bell & Tennessee Tech Agriculture Education Professor Dennis Duncan

Bob Bell visits with Dennis Duncan, a professor of Agriculture Education at TTU.  Dennis touches on his background and how he found his way to Tennessee Tech, the similarities and differences between the FFA and 4-H, and what Dennis is teaching this semester and some his specialty areas as a…
8 Nov 2022 7AM 34 min

Caroline Moore & Art Round Tennessee's Justin Blackmon & Jen Luna

Caroline Moore sits down with Justin Blackmon and Jen Luna from Art Round Tennessee. Justin and Jen talk about their past mediums of work and what they currently do, what it was like to find community here despite all kinds of area artists working in different types of art, the…
7 Nov 2022 7AM 34 min

Ben Rodgers & Pickett County Executive Stephen Bilbrey

Ben Rodgers meets with new Pickett County Executive Stephen Bilbrey. Stephen talks about being the youngest county executive when he was first elected in 2002, why he decided to run during the 2022 election, and things that Stephen would like to do or see change in the next four years…
4 Nov 2022 7AM 34 min

Sam Brooks & Upperman High School Principal Stephen Robbins

Sam Brooks visits with new UHS Principal Stephen Robbins. Stephen discusses what went into the decision to move from Cookeville to Upperman, looking back on the recent success that Upperman has had in sports and the growing number in students, and the role that athletics play in today's youth growing…
3 Nov 2022 7AM 34 min

Ben Rodgers & State Rep. 38th District Kelly Keisling

Ben Rodgers visits with Kelly Keisling, State Representative for Tennessee's 38th District. Kelly talks about where the line begins for District 38 and what that covers, what the current salary of a state house or state senate member is, and how long Kelly has been the chairman of the State…
28 Oct 2022 7AM 34 min

Sam Brooks & Members Of The Cookeville High School Boys' Golf Team

Sam Brooks sits down with  Head Coach Larry Pitts and members of the CHS Boys' Golf Team, senior Joseph Agee and junior Brant Kardatzke. Coach Pitts talks about watching his players grow over the years, the year the team had and how tough it is to make the state tournament,…
27 Oct 2022 7AM 34 min

Bob Bell & Putnam Co. Schools Sam Brooks & Jackie Vester

Bob Bell visits with the FutureReady Supervisor Sam Brooks and Jackie Vester, the Early Post Secondary Opportunities (EPSO) Specialist for Putnam County. Sam and Jackie give a look at their backgrounds, both about them in general and what they do with students in Putnam County, the ESports programs and how…
25 Oct 2022 7AM 34 min

Caroline Moore & Katie Martin, Owner of 40:8 Flower Company

Caroline Moore meets with Katie Martin, owner of 40:8 Flower Company. Katie talks about her family farm where the flower company operates out of and how they got started, how they choose what flowers to plant each year, and the different strategies they use to fight the winter season. Listen…
24 Oct 2022 7AM 34 min

Ben Rodgers & Cumberland, Smith, White, Jackson County Mayors

Ben Rodgers visits with the four mayors from White, Smith, Cumberland, and Jackson Counties. The four mayors talk about what they've done as a group to keep emergency service workers in their counties, what the Local Assistance And Tribal Consistency Fund, or LATCF is, and what Smith, White, and Jackson…
21 Oct 2022 7AM 33 min

Sam Brooks & Meet The Cookeville High School Girls' Golf Team

Sam Brooks sits down with Cookeville High School Girls' Golf Team Coach Larry Pitts, and players Daniela Pryor and Lexus Julian. They discuss their recent season, and how special it was to go undefeated in the season, what the team did to prepare for the season, as well as what…
20 Oct 2022 7AM 34 min

Bob Bell & Tennessee Tech College Of Business

Bob Bell talks to the Dean of the College of Business at TTU, Tom Payne and Director of Development and Engagement Cheryl Montgomery. Bob reintroduces Tom and Cheryl as they discuss their backgrounds, all the events taking place during the fall that the College of Business plays a role in,…
18 Oct 2022 7AM 34 min

Caroline Moore & John Bell, Cookeville Regional Charitable Foundation Executive

Caroline Moore sits down with John Bell, the executive director of the CRMC Charitable Foundation. He discusses a little about the Cookeville Regional Medical Foundation and what it does on a broad scale, how long the foundation has existed and some of the history, along with what John Bell would…
17 Oct 2022 7AM 33 min

Ben Rodgers & Putnam County School Board Fall 2022 Updates

Ben Rodgers meets with Kim Cravens, Chair of the Putnam County School Board. They discuss fall break and how the school schedule is decided, enrollment being up in Putnam County, the construction of Parkview School that is set to be completed in 2024, as well as the topic of funding…
14 Oct 2022 7AM 34 min

Bob Bell & Tennessee Tech Athletic Director Mark Wilson

Bob Bell meets with TTU Athletics Director, Mark Wilson. Mark goes through his background and how he found his way to TTU, discussing intercollegiate athletics at a broader scale like at the NCAA level, and the updated number of NCAA-level sports that TTU now offers. Listen to the latest Local…
11 Oct 2022 7AM 33 min

Caroline Moore & Cookeville High School's Randy Mansell

Caroline Moore sits down with Randy Mansell, the carpentry teacher at Cookeville High School. Randy talks about where he's from and how he got started in carpentry, what the challenge was like for coming up with a lesson plan and dealing with teenagers while building a house for class, and…
10 Oct 2022 7AM 34 min

Ben Rodgers & Baxter City Councilmen Dustin Stanton

Ben Rodgers talks to Dustin Stanton, a City Council member in Baxter.  Dustin discusses what went into the name change from Alderman to City Councilmen, the structure of Baxter's City Council, how many people are on it, and term lengths, and talking about the success of Baxter's Harvest Festival this…
7 Oct 2022 7AM 34 min

Sam Brooks & Ben Herron

Sam Brooks visits with Ben Herron, former Upperman football head coach. Ben talks about the timing of why he left coaching at Upperman when he did, how different it was going from being a coach and leading one group of kids to going into administration and leading hundreds of kids,…
6 Oct 2022 7AM 34 min

Caroline Moore & The History Of Standing Stone

Caroline Moore meets with Monterey Cultural Administrator Rafferty Cleary and Standing Stone Committee member Rebekah Beeler. The three talk about where Rafferty and Rebekah are from and how they wound up in Monterey, the history of Standing Stone and Monterey, and how Rebekah learned Cherokee and if it came naturally…
3 Oct 2022 7AM 34 min

Ben Rodgers & Fentress County Mayor

Ben Rodgers visits with Fentress County Mayor Jimmy Johnson. Jimmy talks about the adjustment it takes from moving from a county commissioner to being a county mayor, the newly elected officials in Fentress County, and projects that are coming to fruition that Jimmy wanted to see completed. Listen to the…
30 Sep 2022 7AM 34 min
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