1. FHN announces plans to merge with MercyHealth
2. City leaf collection program
3. Highland Community College President announces retirement
4. Oakdale Fall Festival!
5. 100 Women Who Care reach $500,000 milestone
6. Understand your property taxes
7. Walk to Remember
8. Salvation Army needs your help!
9. U of I Extension hosts invasive species program
10. Wee Nats returns for young nature explorers
11. Flu shot clinics begin
12. Local resident inducted into Illinois 4-H Hall of Fame
13. The week ahead…
    1. Birdseed sale reminder
    2. Cub Foods Brat Stand
    3. Farmers Markets
    4. Re-fresh trash disposal on Saturday

FREEPOD and TimBeck2 host Becky Connors visits with Jim Dole, director of the Doug Firebaugh Observatory talk about the observatory and how they’ll be celebrating International Observe the Moon Day.

1. 911 system upgrade complete

2. Freeport police department receives grant

3. Brewfest is this weekend!

4. New Pilates studio opens in downtown Freeport

5. Free safety seat check

6. A Slice of Time – and Pizza! – Just for You!

7. Autumn Leaf Run

8. Feed the birds this winter!

9. The week ahead…

1. Rockford-Freeport Illinois Kennel Club Dog
2. Cub Foods Brat Stand
3. Farmers Markets
4. Play Misty For Me at the Lindo
5. Slow cooker program
6. FREEPOD is on YouTube!

FREEPOD and TimBeck2 host Tim Connors visits with Kurt Steffen, Cub Foods store manager about how it takes a village to make a supermarket great.

1. Sculpture Walk opens in downtown Freeport
2. Demolitions scheduled
3. Bridge construction on Route 73
4. Presentation on immigration law
5. Brewfest is next weekend!
6. Fall exhibit at The Highland Gallery
7. Highland Lifelong Learning program
8. YMCA Blood Drive
9. Family Enrichment Program family playgroup event
10. Big O's On The Hollow on America's Best Restaurants
11. Strategic planning underway at FSD 145
12. Lena Memorial receives final touches
13. Choose your apple!
14. The week ahead…
    1. Youth Aviation event
    2. Friends Forever mums and pumpkins sale
    3. Cub Foods Brat Stand
    4. Farmers Markets
    5. Eats & Beats success

FREEPOD host Alan Wenzel chats with Jessica Modica, Executive Director of the Freeport Art Museum about the Sculpture Walk being installed in downtown Freeport.

1. Downtown Freeport Pocket Park doubles its size with support from Marianne Garvens
2. Funding restored for Highland Community College programs
3. Sculpture Walk in downtown Freeport
4. Northwest Illinois Airshow canceled
5. FHN gives back through sports physical clinics
6. Freeport School District 145 4th Annual Community Resource and Wellness Fair
7. National Hispanic Heritage Month celebration
8. Protein, Physical Activity, and Aging: What You Need to Know
9. Sourdough class
10. Friends Forever annual car show
11. Tai Chi in the Park
12. Agriculture helps to start the school year off right
13. The week ahead…
    1. Leonard C. Ferguson Cancer Center at FHN Memorial Hospital open house
    2. Cub Foods Brat Stand
    3. Farmers Markets
    4. Student Garden Food Stand
    5. Autosmart Cruise-in
    6. Brewfest

FREEPOD host Alan Wenzel chats with Risa Tyler, Director of the FHN Leonard C. Ferguson Cancer Center about its 30th anniversary providing cancer care for the Freeport area.

1. City updates
   1. Hancock Viaduct closed
   2. Updated trash and recycling processes
   3. Lots of tires recycled!
2. Lena Fall Festival
3. Downtown Unlocked event
4. Freeport High School and Middle School team receives award
5. Updates from Highland Community College
   1. Remodeling
   2. Student nursing mobile van physicals
6. Cast Iron Chef at the Apple River Fort
7. Time for mums from VOICES
8. Library boasts record participation in summer reading program
9. Master Gardeners available to answer your home gardening questions
10. The week ahead…
    1. Freeport Art Museum bed-turning event
    2. First Pretzel football game of the season
    3. Cub Foods Brat Stand
    4. Farmers Markets
    5. Jane Addams Birthday Tea
    6. Brewfest

FREEPOD and TimBeck2 host Tim Connors visits with Dr. Anna Alvarado, Superintendent of Schools for Freeport School District 145, about the recent changes in locations for lower grades.