1. Miller wins mayoral race

2. New downtown businesses

3. Freeport after school program faces funding uncertainty

4. Pretzel Fest nears

5. New car dealership open at former Visitors’ Center

6. HCC music concert

7. Farm Bureau Allies in Agriculture

8. Trout fishing season opens

9. Book Nook sale

10. Foraging program at Library

11. The week ahead…

1. Cub Foods Brat Stand
2. Stephenson County Home Show
3. Garden of quilts Quilt Show
4. Tax preparation help

FREEPOD and TimBeck2 host Tim Connors chats with reps from the Greater Freeport Partnership and Mike Marten of Mort’s Bar and Grill about Pretzel Fest and Polka Fest coming up Saturday, April 26th.

1. County Board updates
2. Farm Bureau offers Rural Nurse scholarships
3. Rural Nurse Practitioner Scholarships
4. Spring yard prep
5. Aspiring Artists at Freeport Art Museum
6. It’s Showtime!
7. Welcome, Grasshopper’s!
8. The week ahead…
   1. Underground Railroad exhibit at Library
   2. Farm Bureau Run
   3. Jimmy Nick concert
   4. Tax prep

Tune in as FREEPOD and TimBeck2 host Becky Connors visits with Sarah Long, Artistic Director of Studio 121 dance in Freeport, which offers classes in ballet, modern, and pointe technique.

1. Highland Community College terminates head basketball coach Luke Norman
2. Info on local ICE activities
3. United Way fundraising dinner
4. Grasshopper’s now open
5. Coffee and Crumbs Bakery now open
6. Concert at the Masonic Temple
7. Stephenson County Home Show
8. Freeport Park District facility and shelter rate changing
9. Second Chances reentry simulation
10. Next Classic Film Series: Sixteen Candles
11. Stephenson County Historical Society annual dinner
12. Bruce Johnson Memorial Run
13. New fitness class at Senior Resource Center
14. Audubon Society banquet
15. Underground Railroad musical performance
16. The week ahead
    1. Full Circle Café & Collective at Library
    2. Tax support at Senior Resource Center
    3. Early voting continues

FREEPOD and TimBeck2 host Tim Connors visits with Elisha Walker, Executive Director of Northwestern Illinois Community Action Agency about how they help families find and access federal support in a wide variety of areas.

1. SmartPass
2. New Math Curriculum
3. ACT
4. AVID
5. Culture and Student Support Office
6. Showtime
7. Girls Winning Basketball Season
8. Wrestling Regional Champion
9. Mya Ortiz Speech Star
10. Baseball 20-win Season
11. Student Athletics App
12. Reminders
    1. Senior Resource Center in Freeport is providing free tax preparation
13. Cubs Brat Stand Opens

FREEPOD and TimBeck2 host Tim Connors visits with native Freeporter Landon Koester about his job in the Equipment Department of the Green Bay Packers.

1. New credit union to open in Freeport
2. Measles update
3. Senior Resource Center visits Stockton and Galena
4. Senior Center Update on possible budget cuts
5. New management for Hampton Inn
6. Underground Railroad Exhibit continues at Library, including special presentations
7. Stephenson County Farm Bureau sales
   1. Freezer Meal fundraiser
   2. Bags of pollinator seed
8. Upper Mississippi Watershed movie at Library
9. Summerset Theatre auditions for CINDERELLA
10. Freeport Park District facility and shelter rate update
11. Congratulations Pecatonica basketball teams
12. Where was all the snow?
13. The week ahead…
    1. One Book One Freeport: Ray Bradbury: Waukegan’s Influence on a Visionary
    2. A Moving Sound at Freeport Art Museum
    3. New Grasshoppers Bar & Grill
    4. CSAs from Freeport High School Student Gardens
    5. Freeport High School class produces next week’s FREEPOD

FREEPOD host Alan Wenzel chats with Tricia Mickley, CEO of the Frontier-Mt. Carroll Mutual Insurance Company about the cost of insurance premiums.