(Airdate: October 31, 2025) Commissioner Greg Brotherton and co-host Jim Burke welcome from the Jefferson County Historical Society, Executive Director Tara McCauley. They discuss the place of LORE alongside history and tell stories of GHOSTS, BIGFOOT, and THE MONKEY’S PAW for Halloween. To learn more about The JCHS and the big job of preserving and relating local history click here.
KPTZ’s Taylor Clark was joined by three Port Townsend department heads: Police Chief Tom Olson, Planning Director Emma Bolin, and Director of Public Works Steve King. We explored what is happening with respect to the proposed closing of the homeless encampment on the Evans Vista property. We talked about the city’s partnership with assistance organizations, and the city council’s action to streamline the permitting process for help these organizations respond to homelessness.
(Airdate: October 29, 2025) Minor Troubles (a a friendly little jazz quartet from Port Townsend) were featured on the Buzzy Donahue Show during the Stayin’ Alive Fund Drive.
(Airdate: October 28, 2025) Maryanne interviews Steve King, Port Townsend’s Public Works Director. Steve’s been grappling with our complex issues since he joined the city five years ago. An early accomplishment was getting the mill to pay for water usage, just like any other customer. Some of the pipes for our water system are over 100 years old. Steve’s team is racing the clock – trying to replace those pipes before they collapse. That’s just one issue facing the town. The lack of affordable housing and the sorry state of our streets are also major issues. Voters overwhelmingly passed a measure to raise taxes to help pay for street repairs. Results aren’t in yet but that money only began to flow in 2024. The lack of workforce housing – aka affordable housing – is also on everyone’s radar.
(Airdate: October 28, 2025) We’re in Xinjiang, China’s so-called Uyghurs Autonomous Province. The Uyghurs are the largest ethnic group in the province, with 45 percent of the population, and the Han Chinese are close behind with 40 percent. Still, 99 percent of the power is in the hands of the Chinese….
(Airdate: October 27, 2025) Nigel O’Shea from the Jefferson County Beacon was joined by reporter Scott France, photographer Heather Johnson, and editor Nhatt Nichols to talk about the Beacon‘s article on Food Insecurity in Jefferson County, which is especially important in light of the government shutdown and the impact on SNAP benefits which are going to lapse.
The Beacon’s article on this is located here.
This week, In a special Fund Drive edition of County Connections, Jim Burke and co-host Commissioner Heidi Eisenhour welcome Jefferson County Department of Public Works Director/County Engineer Al Cairns and Tracy Grisman, Chair and District #1 Citizen Representative on SWAC (Solid Waste Advisory Commitee). They discuss solid waste, recycling, the upcoming plans for county-wide solid waste curbside service, and the relocation of the Transfer station.
Also. on Monday, October 27 at the Transfer Station from 5-7 pm is the unveiling of artwork developed through the A.I.R.E. program (Artist In Residency and Education) which brings focus to recycling and uses actual trash for the assemblage.
