On today's Local Matters...Sam Brooks is joined by Dustin Baxter, a former basketball player at Upperman High School. Dustin talks about what he would say to upcoming athletes on playing multiple sports, how important AAU was to him in with getting to play against different players outside of the Upper Cumberland, & the biggest difference in playing high school basketball to college basketball.

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Tiffany Anton visits with Connor Giddens, owner of The Foxhole Wellness Group in Cookeville. Connor discusses the decision to start a business over being a lactation consultant, if there are any surprises with doing the classes versus one-on-one care at home, and one of the newer services that Fox Hole is offering. 

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Buddy Pearson is joined by Elisha Cade, a 4th Grade teacher from Algood Elementary School. They touch on experiencing the big change going from Jacob's Ladder Preschool to teaching 4th grade, how she deals with discipline issues among her students, and being involved with Fellowship of Christian Athletes at Algood since 2018.

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Ben Rodgers meets with Taylar Plush, the Visitor's Services Manager for the Cookeville-Putnam County Visitor's Bureau. They talk about if there is a drastic difference in buying for Harley Davidson then going and buying for the Visitor's Bureau, when she began purchasing product for the Christmas season, and three things she would recommend to do for someone to do while they're visiting Putnam County.

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Sam Brooks sits down with Matt Bragga, the Head Baseball Coach at Tennessee Tech University. Matt talks about growing up in northeast Ohio, how he executes his faith without pushing it upon current and future players, and the process of being recruited and finding his path to playing college baseball.

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Tiffany Anton talks with Suzy Petty, co-owner of Cookeville Window Tint. Suzy discusses what led to the rebranding at the beginning of this year, how important it is to work with distributor that has a good company culture, and thought process behind sponsoring the Heroes' Ball held last month. 

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Buddy Pearson is joined by Beau DeBord, an 8th grade Teacher for Putnam County Schools with VITAL. Beau discusses his start in education teaching summer school, if school as a whole was something that he liked when he was growing up, and his involvement with the CyberSecurity with middle school, high school, and county wide.

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George Halford sits down with Rick Larsen, the founder of Flexial Corporation in Cookeville. They begin with Rick's path from Connecticut to Ocala, Florida and eventually Cookeville, the beginnings of Flexial and working on different grants throughout the years, and opportunities and other passions he has like photography since retiring in 2011.

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Ben Rodgers is joined by CFO Chris Cassetty of Highlands Residential Services & Jeff Jones, the attorney for Highlands  Residential Services. They talk about what was the deciding factor to make a career move from working as a state auditor to the Housing Authority at the time, the different questions that are asked and answered to see if a project will work, and some of the stories from Chris's 27-year career.

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Sam Brooks is joined by Girls' Track and Field Coach at Upperman High School Bruce Heady. They talk about a story about one of Coach Heady's former players from his time at Hillsboro, who made the difference in Bruce's life that led him down the path of coaching, and how his experience as a student helper at Tennessee Tech in college opened career doors elsewhere.

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