(Airdate: October 13, 2025) KPTZ’s Taylor Clark sat down with Dylan Quarles and Fred Obee, candidates for Port Townsend City Council Position 1 for a conversation about their campaigns.
PT City Council Position 1
County Connections
(Airdate: October 10, 2025) This week on County Connections, Jim Burke and co-host Commissioner Heidi Eisenhour welcome Jessica Lowe, who is the Director of the Jefferson County Children’s Advocacy Center. From their webpage: “In response to the needs of Jefferson County, efforts are currently underway by the Olympic Peninsula YMCA and community partners to develop an accredited Child Advocacy Center where children who experience abuse, and non-offending family members, can come for safety, justice and healing.”
The Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC) has a Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) that draws on a dozen local agencies and keeping focus on the child so they avoid having to recount the abuse to many different people repeatedly, reducing further trauma. The CAC occupies the space vacated by KPTZ Radio after they moved to the New KPTZ station at Fort Worden. To find out more and to support the CAC go to their webpage.
Brewocracy Now ~ 10/09/25
KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro were joined by Coucil member Neil Nelson. They discussed the situation with encampment behind DHS and importance of helping unhoused city residents. The original unedited version of an opinion piece Neil wrote for the Leader is now available on their website here.
Local News for 10/09/25
#744 Wildlife Tracking and Conservation, part 1
(Reprise Airdate: October 8, 2025) Please join Nature Now host Debaran Kelso as we speak with Scott Brinton, co-founder and executive director of the CedarRoot School, about tracking and its importance to wildlife conservation. This is part 1 of a two-part program.
Local News for 10/08/25
Booklovers’ Cafe – Kathleen Alcala, Treasures in Heaven
(Airdate: October 7, 2025) Cris brings Kathleen Alcala to Booklovers Café to talk about her novel, Treasures in Heaven. This book is a turbulent tale of love and political awakening set in Mexico a century ago. The protagonist, Estela, finds herself swept into a world of politics and entangled in secret relationships. What starts as lessons to educate poor children grows into a school for prostitutes. The school leads to a radical underground newspaper and a dangerous movement for social change that foreshadows the Mexican Revolution.
Local News for 10/07/25
Community Tides ~ 10/07/25
Each month KPTZ’s Chris Bricker joins co-host Siobhan Canty, president and CEO of Jefferson Community Foundation, to explore new paradigms, new developments, and organizations that have sprouted from our County’s good people doing good work. There’s a movement afoot to reimagine dementia care by emphasizing engagement and support. In conversation with us today are Nikki Jardin, founder and publisher of Mirador Magazine, a dementia-inclusive, general-interest publication designed for readers experiencing cognitive change, and Julie Eckert, Dementia Outreach Specialist for Olympic Area Agency on Aging.
Silk
(Airdate: October 7, 2025) We’ve finally left Gansu Province and Dunghuang behind and heading for Hami, the next oasis on the northern branch of the Silk Road. The size of the Oases along the Silk Road always surprised us. It took our bus almost 30 minutes to get past the fields and pastures, and then we were back in the desert again—this time along rolling black hills and sage brush flats.
