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

FREEPOD and TimBeck2 host Tim Connors chats with reps from the Greater Freeport Partnership and Mike Marten of Mort’s Bar and Grill about Pretzel Fest and Polka Fest coming up Saturday, April 26th.

1. County Board updates
2. Farm Bureau offers Rural Nurse scholarships
3. Rural Nurse Practitioner Scholarships
4. Spring yard prep
5. Aspiring Artists at Freeport Art Museum
6. It’s Showtime!
7. Welcome, Grasshopper’s!
8. The week ahead…
   1. Underground Railroad exhibit at Library
   2. Farm Bureau Run
   3. Jimmy Nick concert
   4. Tax prep

Tune in as FREEPOD and TimBeck2 host Becky Connors visits with Sarah Long, Artistic Director of Studio 121 dance in Freeport, which offers classes in ballet, modern, and pointe technique.

1. Highland Community College terminates head basketball coach Luke Norman
2. Info on local ICE activities
3. United Way fundraising dinner
4. Grasshopper’s now open
5. Coffee and Crumbs Bakery now open
6. Concert at the Masonic Temple
7. Stephenson County Home Show
8. Freeport Park District facility and shelter rate changing
9. Second Chances reentry simulation
10. Next Classic Film Series: Sixteen Candles
11. Stephenson County Historical Society annual dinner
12. Bruce Johnson Memorial Run
13. New fitness class at Senior Resource Center
14. Audubon Society banquet
15. Underground Railroad musical performance
16. The week ahead
    1. Full Circle Café & Collective at Library
    2. Tax support at Senior Resource Center
    3. Early voting continues