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.
Daily English United States Society & Culture · Education
1,508 Episodes
460 – 480

Ben Rodgers & Meet State Rep. Michael Hale

Ben Rodgers visits with the representative of Tennessee's 40th district, Michael Hale. Together they talk about Michael's background spending most of his childhood in Dekalb County,  the decision Michael had that inspired him to run for office, and what he was expecting to be in the last session and some…
19 May 2023 10AM 34 min

Sam Brooks & Upperman High School Baseball

Sam Brooks meets with Coach Wes Shanks. Head Baseball Coach at Upperman High School. The two discussed how it felt coming into the 2023 season after winning the 2022 state championship, the consistent culture within the program from grades to performance in the sport, and the challenges and needs that…
18 May 2023 10AM 34 min

Local Matters With Tiffany Anton: Meg's Bread

Tiffany Anton visits with the owners of Meg's Bread, Meg Borland and Luke Yoder. The trio looks at how the business started and what it's grown to with both of their roles, how Meg's Bread is defined on the surface, and what is a bodega comparing it to a natrual…
17 May 2023 10AM 34 min

Tiffany Anton & Meet Owner of J&G Exterior Solutions Joe Flurry

Tiffany Anton talks with Joe Flurry, the owner of J&G Exterior Solutions. The two go over Joe's journey that starts when he was 8 years old, all that goes into running a construction business starting with things like support from others, and when J&G Exterior Solutions launched and growing the…
10 May 2023 10AM 34 min

Bob Bell & Putnam Co. Schools' Buddy Pearson

Bob Bell meets with Buddy Pearson, the Communications & Marketing Supervisor for the Putnam County School System.  Bob and Buddy how big the Putnam County School District really is, the month of May being one of the most exciting months for schools with a lot of activities planned, and the…
9 May 2023 10AM 34 min

Ben Rodgers & The Four Mayors Part Two

Ben Rodgers meets with the Four Mayors of Cumberland, Smith, White, & Jackson counties for the second straight week. The group discusses what the mayors' plan to do for the opioid money coming to their counties, how they handle all day budget meetings with people that have full-time jobs, and…
5 May 2023 10AM 34 min

Sam Brooks & Tennessee Tech Women's Basketball Kim Rosamond & Allison Clark

Sam Brooks visits with Tennessee Tech Women's Basketball Head Coach Kim Rosamond & Assistant Coach Allison Clark. The three talk about the never ending process of recruiting, some of the players that came back to use their "Covid year", and how the play-in game format works for the women's basketball…
4 May 2023 10AM 34 min

Tiffany Anton & Meet Owner Integrative Animal Solutions Tracy Farley

Tiffany Anton visits with Tracy Farley, the owner of Integrative Animal Solutions in Sparta. They discuss what Integrative Animal Solutions is and where the idea came from, going from being a vet tech to researching and starting a business, and if the feedback is ever on the negative side that…
3 May 2023 10AM 34 min

Bob Bell & Meet Tennessee Tech's College of Nursing Mary Lou Fornehed

Bob Bell meets with associate professor in the Tennessee Tech College of Nursing, Mary Lou Fornehed and former associate provost Rebecca Tolbert. They look at how Mary Lou received her love of medicine growing up in Sparta, what the Acute Care concentration means and what they do, and all of…
2 May 2023 10AM 34 min

Caroline Moore & The Winners of Tennessee Tech's Eagle Works Competition

Caroline Moore sits down with the first, second, & third place winners of the 2023 Eagle Works competition. They discuss the inventions "Beam" by Bailee Dozier that connects singers and songwriters to local live music venues, he product "Crate Buddy" that allows you to store your backpack and other objects…
1 May 2023 10AM 34 min

Tiffany Anton & Tennessee Tech University's Center for Rural Innovation

Tiffany Anton sits down with Andrea Kruskza from Tennessee Tech's Center for Rural Innovation. The duo discusses what the Center for Rural Innovation is, how owning her own business has helped her grow as an employee in other jobs, and the importance of Eagle Works as it highlights entrepreneurship and…
26 Apr 2023 10AM 34 min

Bob Bell & Meet Science Teacher from the VITAL Program Tasha Walker

Bob Bell visits with science teacher in the VITAL Program from Putnam County Schools Tasha Walker & Principal Shannon Pirtle. They talk about Tasha's background as she loved going to school as a kid, the challenges of relating to the students while not having them in the classroom, and what…
25 Apr 2023 10AM 34 min

Caroline Moore & Meet Thor McNeil

Caroline Moore sits down with Thor McNeil, owner of Fragrant Mushroom Gallery in Sparta. They look at how he exactly got his name Thor, what his initial college degree is in and how it was structured, and his path to living in Sparta with his wife and getting back in…
24 Apr 2023 10AM 34 min

Ben Rodgers & Cookeville Housing Authority

Ben Rodgers talks to Chris Cassetty and Dow Harris from the Cookeville Housing Authority. They discuss what property was sold in Clay County and why it was sold, what qualifies a family to live in developments built by Cookeville Housing Authority, and the partnership with some schools and the city…
21 Apr 2023 10AM 34 min

Sam Brooks & Cookeville High School Girls' Basketball

Sam Brooks meets with Jamie Gillies, head girls basketball coach at Cookeville High School. They go over the special feeling of making it to state for the second straight year as only eight teams go from each class, how to keep the girls motivated night in and night out while…
20 Apr 2023 10AM 34 min
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