Freepod

FREEPOD host Alan Wenzel conducts our first in-depth interview with Jessica Modica, Executive Director of the Freeport Art Museum, for just over 15 minutes about their exciting plans for the future of the museum.

1. Storm aftermath
2. Pretzels boys’ baseball team loses in semifinal game
3. The cicadas are here!
4. Cicada weekend!
5. Freeport Public Library Summer Reading Program begins
6. Small Town Heroes
7. Food Fight for Cancer
8. Theatre adds alcoholic beverages to theatre refreshments
9. Highland Community College International Athlete Diego Yepez Sosa
10. Migratory bird support
11. The week ahead…
    1. Community Forum with Mayor, County Board Chair, and Township Supervisor
    2. NAACP program on racial healing
    3. Music on Chicago returns!
    4. Tutty Baker Festival coming in July
    5. FREEPOD in-depth interviews begin next Tuesday, June 4th

1. Severe Thunderstorms Impact Freeport Area
2. National Travel & Tourism Week—what tourism does for Freeport
3. Memorial Day…parade, steam train rides, and NEW Krape Park mini-golf course
4. Boys & Girls Club Thanks Gardener Ted Odendahl
5. 100 Women Who Care Community Donation
6. State Bank Celebrates 25-year Anniversary
7. Watch what you’re planting – some garden plants are toxic to pets and kids
8. Healthy physical competition for the summer to benefit local schools
9. National Hamburger Day
10. Freeport: home of the nothingburger
11. Looking ahead…
    • Workforce Connection Job Fair
    • East Side Clean-up Day
12. Shout-out for Freeport High School Graduates

1. New internet provider coming to town

2. $400,000 for road safety comes to Freeport

3. 2024-2025 school physicals

4. Freeport Speech team receives additional award

5. Spring clean-ups continue

6. Freeport Fire Department is hiring

7. New police officers sworn in

8. HCC International Athletes – Jeyson Polanco

9. Stephenson County Historical Society plant sale

10. Longer format interviews coming to FREEPOD

a. Beef-a-Roo interview

11. Reminder: Workforce Connection Job Fair today

1. Aquin High School closes
2. Freeport high school tennis team wins NIC-10 trophy
3. Lena Living Center and YMCA partner for free senior-oriented classes
4. Spring clean-up continues throughout Freeport
5. Mother's Day 2024 – Freeport gift ideas for Mom
6. Pretzel City Wine Fest
7. Migratory Bird Day
8. Farmers Markets open this Saturday
9. Mail carrier food drive
   1. Local Freeport mail delivery historical tidbits

1. Do drink the water…in Freeport!
2. Teacher receives Golden Apple nomination
3. Arbor Day Foundation Names Freeport A 2023 Tree City USA®
4. The Totality: A First-Person Eclipse Story
5. Cicadas are Coming
6. New Freeport First Responders
7. Annual YMCA fundraiser
8. Improve your emotional health
9. Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Two Spirit Gathering
10. Rt 26 road work
11. Looking ahead…
    1. Freeport High School Theatre Department presents MOON OVER BUFFALO
    2. Reopening of the restaurant formerly called Logan’s Bar and Grill
    3. Cub Brat Stand
    4. Starbucks reopening after remodel
12. Talking turkey…harvest season results for Illinois

1. Please remember to take our survey at www.freepod.org!
2. “Non-Sanctuary County” resolution passed
3. Street work equipment and training enhancement
4. Ribbon cuttings
5. Spring Chicken Run
6. Housing Demolition Update
7. Dispensary opens
8. Cranes! (the bird kind 😊)
9. Binoculars for sixth graders
10. Litter pickup
11. Clean heat program
12. Pretzel Fest
13. Classic Film Series: The Magnificent Seven
14. Looking ahead….
    1. Arbor Day event at Krape Park
    2. Maria’s Pizza reopens
    3. Stephenson County Restaurant
15. Special thank you for FREEPOD team during National Volunteer Week

FREEPOD is really excited to bring you a very special episode of the news you’ve been missing: today’s pod is brought to you by the students of the Freeport High School Media Production Program! They have a few upcoming events to remind you about, and the majority of the discussion is about what’s happening at the high school as the school year winds down. Thank you, FHS students – we’re proud of you!

1. Take our survey – tell us how we’re doing at giving you the next you’ve been missing!
2. “Non-Sanctuary County” resolution proposed
3. No zooming while cruising
4. Support FHN Pediatric Therapy
5. Keep your hormones healthy
6. Robins are here!
7. Lifelong Learning birding class
8. Stephenson County She-Roes
9. Local composting project, Freeport High School garden update
10. Juried Art Exhibit at HCC
11. Rate FREEPOD on podcast platforms
12. Next week’s episode brought to you by Freeport High School Journalism Class

1. “Non-Sanctuary County” resolution coming up at County Board meeting
2. Solar eclipse on Monday
3. Eclipse party at the Library
4. Highland Community College board report
5. New athletic facility proposed for Highland Community College
6. Civilian police academy
7. VOICES Book Nook half-price sale
8. Historical Society annual dinner
9. “Ordinary People” at Winneshiek Theatre
10. Two music events this Saturday night
    1. The Jimmys, a blues band from Madison
    2. PunkaMania with The Iron Spiders from Chicago
11. Reminder: sign up for FREEPOD on a podcast platform