FREEPOD and TimBeck2 host Tim Connors visits with Josh Elliott, owner of Elliott Graphix and Zealous Art Studio and Tattoo, about tattooing, community involvement, and all things Freeport.

1. Minimum wage hike and other new Illinois laws
2. 2025 BASE Camp open for registration
3. Female firefighter joins Freeport Fire Department
4. Adams Avenue Project Officially Complete
5. ComEd to continue tree trimming
6. Get Fit for 2025
7. National Day of Racial Healing
8. United Way receives funding
9. HCC manufacturing programs taking off
10. A new name: Northwest Illinois Bird and Nature Alliance
11. Dance Against Cancer Ball
12. Is travel a New Years’ resolution?
13. Looking ahead
    1. 10th anniversary of the Lena Brewing Company
    2. Stephenson County Winter Farmers Market
    3. PAWS for reading
    4. Make a soy candle

FREEPOD host Alan Wenzel and Ed Finch visit about the their 15th year of hosting Lindo Theatre’s Select Pix Classic film series. The first film for 2025 airs the next day, Wednesday January 8th: THE UNTOUCHABLES from 1987 starring Kevin Costner and Sean Connery as Treasury agents during Prohibition out to take down Al Capone, played by Robert DeNiro. Showtimes at the Lindo are 1:00 and 7:00 p.m., at regular ticket prices.

FREEPOD and TimBeck2 hosts Tim Connors and Becky Connors and FREEPOD host Alan Wenzel review our 2024 in-depth interviews.

FREEPOD and TimBeck2 host Becky Connors visits with LaFrancine Baker about Kwanzaa.

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