Freepod

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

FREEPOD and TimBeck2 host Becky Connors talks with Juliet Moderow of the Northwest Illinois Audubon Society about migratory patterns of area birds.

1. League of Women Voters candidate forum

2. City news

• Enhanced radio communications to the southern Stephenson County
• Upgrades for the City’s fuel station

3. Update on Pretzel City Skills Enhancement Program

4. Northwest Illinois Airshow

5. Friends of the Pecatonica River host fundraiser

6. Passenger rail service from Rockford to Chicago

7. Small Town Heroes

8. Medicare open enrollment starting soon

9. Free public concert

10. Pretzel City Brewfest

11. The week ahead…

12. Two programs from the University of Illinois Extension

• “Getting the Scoop on Winter Squash”
• Flower Preservation Workshop

13. History trivia: Abraham Lincoln was the lawyer for county resident

FREEPOD host Alan Wenzel speaks with Stephenson County Clerk Jazmin Wingert about the upcoming election