Local podcasts hosted by the Clarksville Now news team.

After an announcement mistake led to an active-shooter panic at Richview Middle, it’s worth asking: Are these drills really worth keeping our kids in constant fear?

Manna Cafe co-founder Vicki York joins Charlie Koon on Clarksville Conversations.

There’s a lot of dead deer on the side of the road these days, so who is supposed to be taking care of that? (Hint, it’s kind of your fault, too.) Plus, a business comes back from the tornado’s destruction, another hotel is planned on Kennedy Lane, and Chris shares his romantic journey to the top of the new downtown parking garage.

A student suffered severe injuries from a chokehold on a school bus, but will we ever know the consequences? Plus the latest on the list of banned books that was sent to local libraries, and Ryan shares the heart-warming tale of Kenny Rogers and the “Six Pack.”

In this week’s episode of Clarksville Conversations, Charlie Koon and Ryan Ploeckelman talk to Paul Turner from Ajax Distributing and Pastor Mike Burnette of LifePoint Church about Turkeys For Troops.

In this week’s episode of Clarksville Conversations, Charlie Koon talks to Dar Place, owner of Veteran Equine Time.

A deeper dive into voting trends in Montgomery County, which again went red, while a Democratic state rep won by the skin of his teeth. Also, flooding solutions may come with bad news, the bus driver shortage causes student tardies, and Chris realizes he accidentally gave former presidential candidate Mitt Romney a nickname.

In this week’s episode of Clarksville Conversations, Charlie Koon talks to Leo Millan and Jeff Truitt about their escape from a hurricane and surviving a plane crash.