Local Matters

Tiffany Anton sits down with Andrea Kruskza from Tennessee Tech's Center for Rural Innovation. The duo discusses what the Center for Rural Innovation is, how owning her own business has helped her grow as an employee in other jobs, and the importance of Eagle Works as it highlights entrepreneurship and helping kids develop a business.

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Bob Bell visits with science teacher in the VITAL Program from Putnam County Schools Tasha Walker & Principal Shannon Pirtle. They talk about Tasha's background as she loved going to school as a kid, the challenges of relating to the students while not having them in the classroom, and what "hybrid" means and how it affects Tasha's role.

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Caroline Moore sits down with Thor McNeil, owner of Fragrant Mushroom Gallery in Sparta. They look at how he exactly got his name Thor, what his initial college degree is in and how it was structured, and his path to living in Sparta with his wife and getting back in to art shows after K-Mart.

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Ben Rodgers talks to Chris Cassetty and Dow Harris from the Cookeville Housing Authority. They discuss what property was sold in Clay County and why it was sold, what qualifies a family to live in developments built by Cookeville Housing Authority, and the partnership with some schools and the city of Cookeville to finish the Hickory Valley project. 

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Sam Brooks meets with Jamie Gillies, head girls basketball coach at Cookeville High School. They go over the special feeling of making it to state for the second straight year as only eight teams go from each class, how to keep the girls motivated night in and night out while trying to juggle things like school, discussing what this year's two seniors brought to the team and both girls signing to play college basketball.

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Tiffany Anton sits down with the owner of Sobarity, Mike Gomez. Together they touch on what "Sobarity" is and the purpose behind it, how wanting to own a business and working to become sober meshed into this idea, and meeting the small business community in Cookeville and what has changed for Mike.

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Tiffany Anton visits with Mike Gomez, the owner of Sobarity. They look at what "Sobarity" is and the purpose behind it, how wanting to own a business and working to become sober meshed into this idea, and meeting the small business community in Cookeville and what has changed for Mike.

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Bob Bell sits down with professors from Tennessee Tech's Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dr. Rory Roberts, Dr. Bruce Jo, and Dr. Ahamd Vaselbehagh. The group of men discuss their backgrounds and the classes they teach, what a co-principle investigator does and what the group does as a team, and the different corporations within the alliance.

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Caroline Moore sits down with directors Michael Choate, Jennifer Welch, and the cast of the play Anastasia performed by students at Cookeville High School. The group discusses the motivation both teachers have to join the theatre scene in the Upper Cumberland, what led to breaking the casts up to an A Cast and a B Cast, and how some of the other cast members got involved into music theatre.

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Ben Rodgers sits down with Criminal Justice consultant Jim Hart, and County Government consultants Heather Duncan and Mike Galey. The group discusses their career paths to what they are doing now, the challenges they encountered while trying to find a balance with personal life, and the conversations that counties have had on the opioid abatement money.

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