FREEPOD and TimBeck2 host Tim Connors interviews Xavier Lassandro, a Freeport High School graduate currently in his senior year at West Virginia University. Lassandro is a master puppeteer who makes his own puppets and has worked with a number of professional puppet masters, including those involved in the creation of the Muppets.

1. Street closures update
2. Electronic recycling event
3. Fourth of July Traffic Safety Campaign
4. New athletic director at Highland
5. Highland names Head Coach of Cougar men’s basketball
6. VOICES earns national grant to revamp pet program
7. FHN offers Safe Sitter class
8. Culver’s drive-thru open again
9. Tutty will be here soon!
10. Fireworks!
11. Music on Chicago
12. The week ahead…
    1. The Great Escape at the Lindo
    2. Cub Foods brat stand
    3. Patriotic Concert
    4. Dairy Month

FREEPOD host Matt Mullen talks with Freeport Mayor Jodi Miller at about Tutty Baker Fest coming up July 11-13.

1. Road work updates

2. Mosquito Abatement

3. Cooling Centers

4. Greater Freeport Partnership receives grant

5. Music on Chicago

6. Music Under the Stars and Patriotic Concert

7. Music on Debate Square

8. Order your peaches

9. Spaces still available for FAM Summer Art Camps

10. Freeport Senior Resource Center offers new classes

11. FHN $25 Sports Physicals support local schools

12. Tree removal throughout Freeport parks

13. The week ahead…

1. CINDERELLA at HCC
2. Cub Foods Brat Stand
3. Farmers Markets

Guest host Shary Gibson visits with Aquin Principal Beth Heitkamp and Aquin student parent Blake Musser about the recent changes at Aquin.

1. Work begins on Carroll Avenue

2. Deer nuisance bill passed by Illinois General Assembly

3. Tour for Cancer

4. Stephenson County Historical Society Annual Ice Cream Social

5. Why are you still coughing?

6. Northwest Illinois Bird and Nature Alliance Stewardship Days

7. The week ahead…

1. Highland Community College’s Summerset Theatre production of Cinderella
2. Cub Foods Brat Stand
3. Farmers’ Markets in Freeport as well as one in Lena.
4. Freeport Concert Band performance on Sunday

Guest FREEPOD host Shary Gibson visits with professional dog trainer Jan Carlson about how to make sure your furry friends are comfortable and safe during hot weather as well as chatting about therapy dogs.

1. Video tour of the Freeport water system

2. Scam alerts on the rise

3. Notice from Freeport Police Department

4. Juneteenth Celebration

5. Elevated Voices Gala

6. Music Under the Stars season begins

7. Fair Oaks Farm Trip

8. The week ahead…

1. Reminders: CINDERELLA, Pretzel City 5K
2. Cub Foods Brat Stand
3. Farmers Markets

FREEPOD and TimBeck2 host Becky Connors chats with Alex Jansen, tech director for theatre at Highland Community College about backstage at “Cinderella.”

1. Well project proceeding, repaving season begins
2. Stephenson County board news
3. FHN Food Fight Against Cancer
4. Pretzel Pickers on the job
5. Mini-golf tournament at Krape Park
6. Pretzel City 5K run
7. New Pre-Columbian gold objects at Freeport Art Museum
8. “Cinderella” at Summerset
9. Book discussion at Generations Brewing Company
10. The week ahead…
    1. Music on Chicago
    2. “Sherlock Holmes: The Baker Street Irregulars” at Winneshiek Playhouse.
    3. Summer Reading Program begins.
    4. Cub Foods Brat Stand
    5. Farmers Markets
    6. Shoe Sensation now open