Local Matters

Sam Brooks sits down with Cookeville High School Girls' Golf Team Coach Larry Pitts, and players Daniela Pryor and Lexus Julian. They discuss their recent season, and how special it was to go undefeated in the season, what the team did to prepare for the season, as well as what their thought process was coming off the practice round, and going into the first day of play.

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Bob Bell talks to the Dean of the College of Business at TTU, Tom Payne and Director of Development and Engagement Cheryl Montgomery. Bob reintroduces Tom and Cheryl as they discuss their backgrounds, all the events taking place during the fall that the College of Business plays a role in, and more on the partnership between the College of Business and College of Agriculture and what people can expect when they finish their major.

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Caroline Moore sits down with John Bell, the executive director of the CRMC Charitable Foundation. He discusses a little about the Cookeville Regional Medical Foundation and what it does on a broad scale, how long the foundation has existed and some of the history, along with what John Bell would describe as a typical day at work.

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Ben Rodgers meets with Kim Cravens, Chair of the Putnam County School Board. They discuss fall break and how the school schedule is decided, enrollment being up in Putnam County, the construction of Parkview School that is set to be completed in 2024, as well as the topic of funding for the school, and where it would come from.

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Bob Bell meets with TTU Athletics Director, Mark Wilson. Mark goes through his background and how he found his way to TTU, discussing intercollegiate athletics at a broader scale like at the NCAA level, and the updated number of NCAA-level sports that TTU now offers.

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Caroline Moore sits down with Randy Mansell, the carpentry teacher at Cookeville High School. Randy talks about where he's from and how he got started in carpentry, what the challenge was like for coming up with a lesson plan and dealing with teenagers

while building a house for class, and describing the home that's being built leading all the way up to a public auction at the end of the year. 

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Ben Rodgers talks to Dustin Stanton, a City Council member in Baxter.  Dustin discusses what went into the name change from Alderman to City Councilmen, the structure of Baxter's City Council, how many people are on it, and term lengths, and talking about the success of Baxter's Harvest Festival this year.

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Sam Brooks visits with Ben Herron, former Upperman football head coach. Ben talks about the timing of why he left coaching at Upperman when he did, how different it was going from being a coach and leading one group of kids to going into administration and leading hundreds of kids, what the future holds as he campaigns for Register of Deeds in Putnam County. 

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Caroline Moore meets with Monterey Cultural Administrator Rafferty Cleary and Standing Stone Committee member Rebekah Beeler. The three talk about where Rafferty and Rebekah are from and how they wound up in Monterey, the history of Standing Stone and Monterey, and how Rebekah learned Cherokee and if it came naturally.

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Ben Rodgers visits with Fentress County Mayor Jimmy Johnson. Jimmy talks about the adjustment it takes from moving from a county commissioner to being a county mayor, the newly elected officials in Fentress County, and projects that are coming to fruition that Jimmy wanted to see completed.

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