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Buddy Pearson visits with Ross Fanning, the athletics director at Upperman High School. They talk about f there is a budget for each sport when it comes to fundraising, his interest in teaching biology going all the way back to a high school teacher he had, and how much has high school changed in 20 years.

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George Halford visits with Sam Glasgow, a retired pathologist in Cookeville and a major role player with Rails For Trails in Putnam County. Sam talks about his early journeys around the globe both starting and ending at Tulane University, the "Ale for The Trail" events that began in the late 2000s, and how the group worked around the difficulty of going up Brotherton Mountain.

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Ben Rodgers talks with Smith County Mayor Jeff Mason. Jeff recaps a meeting in Nashville that involves a zinc mine in Smith County that would bring some economic development, updates on the budget and what the outlook is plus when the committee has met, and if they have spent all of the ARP money with the deadline coming up.

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Tiffany Anton sits down with the co-owner of Streetlamp Creative Heather Karellas. They touch on what her biggest takeaway is for people that are learning to tell their own story, some exciting things about moving to Cookeville from the resources to business community as a whole, and where the name Streetlamp Creative comes from.

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Buddy Pearson visits with Career & Technical Education teacher Susie Dobbs, teacher of the AV class at Upperman High School.  They talk about the process of getting equipment to build the program to what Susie envisioned, Susie talks about her background hailing from Nebraska to college in Chicago to her career before teaching, & what a wish list would look like for her class if she had one today.

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George Halford talks with Marvin Bullock, the former Chamber President for the White County Chamber of Commerce & a sincere outdoor enthusiast. Marvin talks about how he found his passion for the outdoors, a cross country motor home trip he is planning out involving US Highway 70, how tourism with our area parks to our region helps the economic development flourish.

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Ben Rodgers talks with Molly Brown, the Tourism Coordinator for the Upper Cumberland Development District. They talk about how long the Development District has had a tourism department and what its goal is, the "why" behind the show Wish You Were Here through WCTE, & what's different about applying and working for grants with her new job.

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Tiffany Anton visits with Tyler Buck, owner of Baskin Robbins in Cookeville. They touch on if Tyler ever thought about leaving Cookeville to open a business, was there a struggle to purchasing a franchise compared to starting something new, & how is he manages his age not getting in the way with buying land and furthering his ventures.

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Buddy Pearson talks with Carrin Nash, from Putnam County's VITAL School. They talk about the first thing he tells them when someone wants to know about VITAL, if teaching & coaching had always been apart of what he wanted to do, & if there are other grants that are coming down the pike to help make the learning process better.

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George Halford meets with Jenny Spurlock, Case Worker & Constituent Services for the office of Congressman John Rose. The two touch on the experience of opening JJ Jax with her mother & it being more than a gift shop, remembering some of the projects she saw during her time with Leadership Putnam, and her role today with Congressman's John Rose office serving people every day

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