Freepod

1. City updates
   1. Hancock Viaduct closed
   2. Updated trash and recycling processes
   3. Lots of tires recycled!
2. Lena Fall Festival
3. Downtown Unlocked event
4. Freeport High School and Middle School team receives award
5. Updates from Highland Community College
   1. Remodeling
   2. Student nursing mobile van physicals
6. Cast Iron Chef at the Apple River Fort
7. Time for mums from VOICES
8. Library boasts record participation in summer reading program
9. Master Gardeners available to answer your home gardening questions
10. The week ahead…
    1. Freeport Art Museum bed-turning event
    2. First Pretzel football game of the season
    3. Cub Foods Brat Stand
    4. Farmers Markets
    5. Jane Addams Birthday Tea
    6. Brewfest

FREEPOD and TimBeck2 host Tim Connors visits with Dr. Anna Alvarado, Superintendent of Schools for Freeport School District 145, about the recent changes in locations for lower grades.

1. Rent increases for privately owned properties in Freeport
2. Road work update
3. Stephenson Nursing Center news
4. School dates to remember
5. Quilting program at Freeport Art Museum
6. FHN healthcare scholarships
7. Northwest Illinois Bird and Nature Alliance programming season begins
8. The week ahead…
   1. City of Freeport 2025 photo contest
   2. Cub Foods Brat Stand
   3. Steel Magnolias Classic Movie
   4. Brewfest coming soon

FREEPOD and TimBeck2 host Tim Connors interviews Area Music Director Bill Peterson about creating music for the community and all the wonderful friends that join in the effort.

1. City news
   1. Road work
   2. Water tower re-painting
   3. Tire recycling event
2. Eats and Beats this weekend
3. Local business re-opens after fire
4. Sculpture Walk begins to take shape
5. Car Show at Lincoln Mall
6. YMCA receives grant for CPR training equipment
7. Salvation Army needs
8. Farmers Market collecting for Salvation Army
9. The week ahead…
   1. Paint the Port
   2. Music on Debate Square
   3. Cub Foods Brat Stand
   4. Farm Bureau freezer meals

FREEPOD and TimBeck2 host Tim Connors interviews Tim Cook, Executive Director of Malcolm Eaton Enterprises and Malcolm Eaton’s Community Liaison Brian Babcock about the Eats and Beats event next Saturday community non-profits.

1. City road work

2. Tire recycling event

3. Streaming service now available through the Freeport Public Library

4. Krape Park Art Walk

5. Paint the Port

6. Public school registration reminders

7. FHN recognized for cardiac arrest survival rate

8. Highland’s Volunteer Literacy Program

9. The week ahead…

1. Half-price book sale at the VOICES Book Nook
2. Music at Debate Square
3. Cub Food brat stand
4. Farmers Markets

FREEPOD host Alan Wenzel speaks with Brian Caldwell of AutoSmart Classic Car Sales and Consignment at the former location of the Stephenson County Visitors Center on Route 20 just east of Freeport.

1. City utilities update
   1. Road work
   2. Burchard water tower repainting
2. Cruise Night returns
3. Lincoln Douglas 5K
4. VOICES half-price sale
5. Stephenson County Crime Stop presentation
6. Stuff the Bus at Walmart
7. City of Freeport 2025 photo contest
8. The week ahead…
   1. Music on Debate Square
   2. Music on the Patio
   3. Cub Foods brat stand
   4. Paws for Reading

FREEPOD and TimBeck2 visits with the folks at Drake Farm about their delicious sweet corn.