Special Community Spirits Halloween double feature! FREEPOD and TimBeck2 host Tim Connors speaks with Freeport High School Technical Director Bob Winter and Stockton resident Amy Larson about haunts in the Freeport area, as well as some incidents of his own. Followed by a bonus interview with Al Kelchner from Shannon who’s been featured in an episode of the Living Dead Paranormal on YouTube.

1. Ballot questions need your vote
2. Vote eligibility for those with criminal records
3. Drug Take Back Day
4. Highland Community College Fall Concert
5. Jersey Mike’s headed to Freeport
6. New Executive Director named for Freeport Park District
7. East side cleanup day
8. Last days for area Farmers Markets
9. Accessible Birding Event
10. FHN Festival of Trees Gala
11. Grant for Highland
12. Leaf pickup
13. Halloween event at the Stephenson County Historical Museum (with audio interview clip)
14. Bike Tour de Halloween
15. The week ahead
    1. Halloween event reminders
    2. Northern Lights photos from Freeport area

FREEPOD and TimBeck2 host Becky Connors speaks with Joe and Jennifer Kanosky about the Save the Tabernacle effort

1. City news
   • Housing rehabilitation grant
   • Viaduct improvements
   • Award of Valor presented
2. Street work update
3. Early voting going well
4. Cubs Field burglarized
5. Flu shots
6. Medicare open enrollment informative event
7. Community concerts, with audio clip
8. Inaugural City Photo Contest winner
9. Sorensen Accepting Applications for Military Academy Nominations
10. Run Stephenson County Race
11. Beginning Birder Club
12. Amity Haunted House
13. Halloween 2024 activities
14. The week ahead
    • Leaf pickup
    • Pickleball tournament
    • History tidbit

FREEPOD and TimBeck2 host Tim Connors talks with FHS Head Football Coach Anthony Dedmond and Assistant Football Coach Marty Sellers.

1. Sorensen delivers on clean drinking water infrastructure funding for Freeport

2. Local candidate positions on 2024 election topics

3. FREEPOD is on social media!

4. Street work update

5. Wine and Witches in downtown Freeport

6. Medicare changes for 2025

7. Stroke presentation

8. Freeport Homecoming Week

9. Adult Prom

10. The week ahead

a. Early voting

b. PAWS for reading

FREEPOD host Alan Wenzel visits with FHN CEO Mark Gridley about the region’s largest healthcare organization.

1. Carroll Avenue shooting
2. FREEPOD 5 Questions in 5 Minutes for 2024 public office candidates
3. Street work update
4. Update on new Freeport Art Museum location
5. StephenSun County – solar energy in our backyard
6. Highland theatre production
7. Shingles shots
8. Winter Parking to Switch to Odd/Even System November 1
9. Fall garden tips
10. VOICES programming during Domestic Violence Awareness Month
11. Apple season info
12. Oakdale Fall Festival and Autumn Leaf Run
13. The week ahead
    1. Registration deadline for the THRIVE Nonprofit Leadership Symposium
    2. Chainlink Cyclists group Saturday morning bike ride

FREEPOD and TimBeck2 host Tim Connors speaks with Dr. Anna Alvarado, Superintendent of Schools Freeport School District 145 about plans and challenge for the 2024-2025 school year.

1. Early voting has begun
2. City news

• Bike paths
• Street projects

1. 333rd National Guard deployed
2. LADAMA September 2024 World Fest Tour
3. Recycling event this Saturday
4. VOICES pickleball tournament
5. Winneshiek goes Back to the 80s
6. Houdini comes to the Freeport Public Library
7. THRIVE Nonprofit Leadership Symposium
8. Upstairs Downtown Workshop
9. Oakdale Fall Festival and Autumn Leaf Run
10. The week ahead…

• Free concert
• Frankenstein double feature
• Pretzel City Brewfest