1. FREEPOD Holiday schedule

2. Trash and bulk item collection

3. CPR/First Aid classes at YMCA

4. Farm Bureau trips ahead

5. National Day of Racial Healing

6. Twice as Nice moving

7. Senior Resource Center services in 2024

8. FHN recognized for stroke care

9. Classic Film Series continues

10. Christmas light displays around town

11. The week ahead

• Luminaria Night
• FREEPOD fundraising drive

FREEPOD and TimBeck2 host Tim Connors visits with the creators of some spectacular outdoor holiday decorations.

1. New County Board members sworn in
2. Hy-Vee project discontinued
3. New parking schedule for City snow removal
4. Donation drive for North Carolina
5. Orange bracelets for recent maternity patients
6. Lady Pretz Swimmers are 1st Team All Conference
7. Freeport High School Speech Team posts a great finish
8. Environmental Sustainability survey for Freeport residents
9. Help support the Freeport Student Garden, and pumpkin composting still available
10. Jane Addams Trail undergoing repairs
11. PAWS for Reading
12. FHN Festival of Trees events continue
    1. Holiday Storytelling by Santa and Mrs. Claus
    2. Letters to Santa
13. The week ahead
    1. Indoor Winter Farmers Market
    2. CHRISTMAS MEMORIES admissions yield 1000 pounds of food
    3. FREEPOD fundraising drive

FREEPOD host Alan Wenzel speaks with Freeport City Manager Rob Boyer about what’s ahead for the City in 2025.

1. Five years of City infrastructure investment by Ward

2. Street work continues

3. Shop With a Cop

4. Environmental Sustainability survey

5. League of Women Voters Gun Violence Prevention study

6. ComEd tree trimming

7. Manufacturing lab ribbon cutting at Highland Community College

8. FHN Festival of Trees events continue

9. Lighted Christmas parade in Lena

10. The week ahead

a. Good luck, Pretzel speech team

b. Final performances of Christmas Memories

c. Cookies with Santa

d. Medicare Basics

e. Christmas Wizards, a Trans-Siberian Orchestra Tribute

f. FREEPOD fundraising drive

Two interviews today!

1. FREEPOD and TimBeck2 hosts Tim Connors and Becky Connors talk CHRISTMAS MEMORIES

2. Tim interviews the Carmella Jackson at Twice As Nice on 25 years in Freeport

1. City applies for Community Development Block Grant
2. Medicare Basics Class
3. Final year for Christmas Memories
4. IPASS event
5. Local teacher recognized as Agriculture in the Classroom Teacher of the Year
6. Highland Community College holiday musical events
7. YMCA Cookies with Santa
8. Community Festival of Trees
9. City renews application to remain a Bird City
10. The week ahead
    1. Small Business Saturday
    2. Select Pix Classic Film - Lethal Weapon 4
    3. FREEPOD Fundraising Campaign

FREEPOD and TimBeck2 host talks with Steven Winter about Generations Brewery.

1. City news: demolitions planned and well planning underway

2. Ribbon cutting for Mobile Medical Unit at HCC

3. Downtown Freeport holiday kick off

4. Tim Connors named Volunteer of the Year

5. Historical Society annual holiday gift and craft show

6. Stockton girls finish second at State

7. Highland Community College purchases property

8. Holiday food drives

9. Leaf pickup

10. Your November gardens

11. The week ahead

1. CHOM Space Days
2. Friends Forever Cookie Walk and Bazaar
3. Winter Farmers Market
4. Free COVID tests
5. Consider a holiday gift for FREEPOD!

FREEPOD and TimBeck2 host Tim Connors visits Nate and Penny Ewing Peterson of Wishful Acres Farm and Brewery. They’ll talk about how they got started with their business and have grown it into a successful enterprise.