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.

1. City street work update
2. Federal funding for Pecatonica River floodway
3. Donations for 333rd MPC
4. Farmers Market continues through the winter
5. YMCA Turkey Trot
6. YMCA grade school basketball league
7. Author Fest
8. Salvation Army Kettle Fundraiser
9. Local donors support HCC and Girl Scouts
10. New FREEPOD editorial support member
11. Castor Home Nursing opens
12. Wishful Acres Debuts Holiday Ale
13. Freeport Middle School opens Fitness Court
14. You Are the Help Until Help Arrives
15. The week ahead
    1. Big Band concert
    2. Beginning Birder Club
    3. VOICES Book Nook Half Price Sale continues
    4. League of Women Voters presentation on women’s votes
    5. FREEPOD Fundraising drive to begin

FREEPOD host Alan Wenzel speaks with Jim Yeager, Director of the Mass Communication Department at Highland Community College, about disinformation and misinformation.

1. Thanks for voting!
2. City news
   1. Electronic ticketing system
   2. Hydrant flushing
   3. Pothole repairs
   4. 1% sales tax for roads
   5. New fire engine
   6. “Bishop James Arthur Wade Way.”
3. LWV women voting
4. Stephenson County Board news
   1. German Valley intergovernmental agreement
   2. Greater Freeport Partnership report
   3. Walnut Acres HVAC update
   4. 0% increase tax levies for 2025
5. Beef-a-Roo
6. Book Nook half-price sale
7. HCC planning for 2025
8. U of I Extension Youth Leadership Conference
9. November gardens
10. The week ahead
    1. Fever River Model Railroad open house
    2. Jewelry, Gem, Fossil, and Mineral Show
    3. FHN Festival of Trees Gala
    4. PAWS for Reading
    5. We love you, Pretzels!
    6. Happy Veterans Day

FREEPOD host Alan Wenzel interviews folks from Kent Land Farms about this year’s agricultural harvest.

1. Remember: Your vote COUNTS!

2. Water extension still under consideration

3. More City news

1. Hydrant flushing
2. Street work on West Avenue

4. Mean Girls comes to Freeport High School

5. News from Highland Community College

1. New staff
2. City-wide bike-and-hike trail

6. Celebrating Native Americans

7. Career Fair next Thursday

8. Identity theft presentation

9. Trees for Freeport

10. Freeport: One of the 9 Most Comfortable Illinois Towns for Seniors

11. Prenatal classes for Spanish-speaking families

12. Day of the Dead in Freeport

13. The week ahead

1. Lots of reminders
2. Halloween treat from FREEPOD: spooky movie list