FREEPOD host Alan Wenzel talks with Freeport Mayor Jodi Miller, City Manager Rob Boyer, and Chief of Police Chris Shenberger about their recent State of the City report.

1. PFAS in City water

2. Other City news

3. Small businesses recognized

4. Stephenson County Farmers Market opens

5. Annual World Migratory Day

6. Musical comedy at Freeport High School

7. League of Women Voters presentation

8. Winefest 2025

9. The week ahead…

1. County Board Members conversation
2. Community Clean-Up Day
3. FFHS Plant and Garden sale
4. Cub Foods Brat Stand

Tim Connors chatting with three winning Pretzel students – Paityn London, Mya Ortiz, and Tristan Peterson – about their successes both in the classroom and their extracurricular activities.

1. Freeport breaks record for world’s largest human pretzel image
2. Highland Community College news
3. U.S. 20 road work
4. Community Clean-Up Day
5. REAL ID deadline is May 7
6. Regional Juried Exhibition at Freeport Art Museum
7. Freeport Art Museum 50th Anniversary social media series
8. Chainlink Cyclist rides begin again
9. Car Show at Union Dairy
10. The week ahead…
    1. Dial M for Murder at the Lindo
    2. Pretzel City Wine Fest
    3. Farmers Market opening
    4. YMCA fundraiser
    5. Highland Community College Fundraiser

FREEPOD host Alan Wenzel speaks with Andrea Schultz-Winter and Nicole Haas of the Greater Freeport Partnership about business development and Freeport community events.

1. City news – wells and trees

2. HCC funding update

3. Stephenson County Restaurant Week

4. New K-9 officer

5. HCC Foundation Celebration 2025

6. Jersey Mike’s opens

7. Historical Society Museum tree wins Tree of the Month

8. Another Spring gardening update

9. YMCA annual fundraiser

10. Drug Take Back Day

11. NAACP Community Resident Meeting

12. Pretzel Fest is this Saturday!

13. The week ahead…

1. Arbor Day Celebration
2. HCC free Big Band Concert
3. Salvation Army Family Night beginning
4. Cub Food Brat Stand

FREEPOD host Alan Wenzel interviews Tim Connors about Polka Fest on Saturday, April 26th.

1. City news: EV chargers, more LED streetlights, and more
2. Record-Breaking History planned for Pretzel City, USA
3. Pretzel Fest next Saturday
4. Program on rank choice voting
5. Freeport recognized by WorldAtlas
6. Carroll County Farm Bureau Young Leaders help reduce food insecurity
7. Salvation Army Family Night
8. Arbor Day celebration at Krape Park
9. FHN nurse Laura Mack recognized
10. Rawleigh products sale
11. Earth Day
12. Easter Egg hunts
13. The week ahead…
    1. Indivisible
    2. Cub Food Brat Stand

FREEPOD and TimBeck2 host Becky Connors interviews Jaime Elliott of the Winneshiek Players about their plans for the next theatre season.

1. Miller wins mayoral race

2. New downtown businesses

3. Freeport after school program faces funding uncertainty

4. Pretzel Fest nears

5. New car dealership open at former Visitors’ Center

6. HCC music concert

7. Farm Bureau Allies in Agriculture

8. Trout fishing season opens

9. Book Nook sale

10. Foraging program at Library

11. The week ahead…

1. Cub Foods Brat Stand
2. Stephenson County Home Show
3. Garden of quilts Quilt Show
4. Tax preparation help