Local Matters

Sam Brooks meets with Mason Taylor, a senior on the Cookeville Cavaliers football team. They discuss what about football interested him when he was growing up, how important the personal growth for him and growth of the program was in 2022, breaking down the 2023 season and a second round trip to the playoffs. 

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Tiffany Anton is sits down with the owners of Sassy Stables Tiera Wester & Russ Moss. They touch on what the vision Tiera had in her mind of what she wanted it to look like, the most exciting thing that they have created or best event they've worked, & if they see themselves being a one-stop shop for events and it becoming a full-time job. 

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Ben Rodgers meets with members of the Putnam County School Board Lynn McHenry & Kim Cravens.  They touch on what the criteria is for the grades the area schools received from the state Department of Education, an update of the building projects in Putnam County, what enrollment looks like after the first semester.

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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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