(Airdate: November 24, 2025) County Administrator Josh Peters Joins co-hosts Jim Burke and Heidi Eisenhour to discuss a potential budget shortfall for 2026 in excess of $5 million. They discuss how we got here and where potential cuts might come from. There will be a public hearing during the BOCC meeting on Monday December 8.
KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro talked about the city budget, which is currently under consideration by City Council. To learn more about the ins and outs of the city budget, check out this short video on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9adTlpore_I
(Airdate: November 12, 2025) Nature Now takes a deep dive into the world of whale sound this week! Please join host Debaran Kelso as we speak with humpback whale expert Dr. Fred Sharpe, whose recent research has focused on aerial whale signals, the “blows”, wheezes” and “thrums” of everyday life.
(Airdate: November 11, 2025) Maryanne interviews Carly Lech, Certified Canine Behaviorist at the PT Humane Society. Carly has essentially been obsessed with animals since she was a small child. Her parents supported her dreams. She attended a zoo program in high school. She did papers on exotics such as Mandrills & Binturongs. College was also animal focused. Now that she’s joined our Humane Society she is determined to bring the right kind of care to animals who arrive there. But she cautions that being in any shelter is incredibly stressful for any animal. She also shares with our listeners some key tips for handling your own dogs (& other animals).
In this edition of Our Working Waterfront, co-hosts Port Director Eron Berg and Commissioner Pam Petranek join KPTZ’s Chris Bricker for a recap of Boatyard projects for the year and season, and then a conversation with Charlie Syberg, who tells us the story of his acquisition and restoration of Nonchalant, a stunning 50-foot motor yacht from a bygone era. He also tells us about its near catastrophic pre-restoration loss, the captains who saved her, and of the Port Townsend shipwrights who restored her.
(Airdate: November 11, 2025) We’ve already noted the ancient homeland of the Uyghurs on the shores of Lake Baikal north of Mongolia, and their short-lived empire that encompassed much of central Asia during the 8th Century. We’ve also noticed their practice of a variety of religions. But today it’s hard to find a Uyghur who isn’t Muslim….
(Airdate: November 10, 2025) on this week’s Attention Please! documentarian Nhatt Nichols traveled to Fox Ranch, the Nature Conservancy’s prairie preserve, to learn about the shortgrass prairie’s past, present, and future with three local Yuma County residents. This project is supported by Prairie Sea Projects, a non-profit community-based arts organization based in Joes, CO. There is also an accompanying comic book, which you can find here: https://mixam.com/print-on-demand/6867126d2e4740626bf7f4c5.
