
Local News for 9/25/25


(Airdate: September 25, 2025 – I Want to Live For Now)

(Airdate: September 24, 2025) We are all familiar with bees. Did you know that honey bee colonies are highly organized, complex, with a rigid caste system, and whose individuals depend on their societal organization to survive. Join Jackie Canterbury as she talks with Colleen Ebken, a beekeeper on Marrowstone Island, about her bee colonies and the wonderful world of bees in general.

(Airdate: September 23, 2025) We’re viewing the surrounding desert from the summit of Yanguan Pass in Gansu Province. Somewhere beyond the northern horizon was a second outpost, Yumenguan, or Jade Gate Paas, through which some of China’s finest jade traveled from the kingdom of Khotan. The people of Khotan also had an equal passion for fine silk. As the story goes, it took a clever Princess to bring the secret of silk making from China to the rest of the world….


(Airdate: September 19, 2025) This week on County Connections, Betsy Carlson, chair of Jefferson Marine Resources Committee (MRC) and Citizen Science Coordinator for Port Townsend Marine Science Center (PTMSC), and Neil Harrington, Environmental Biologist for the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, and a member of MRC, speak with Jim Burke and Commissioner Heidi Eisenhour about the MRC, and the committees work to protect and improve shoreline and marine habitat in Jefferson County. The next meeting of the MRC is Tuesday October 7 from 6 to 8pm at the WSU extension in Port Hadlock and is open to the public. More info at https://jeffersonmrc.org/.
