Local News for 8/27/25
Silk – 85
(Airdate: August 26, 2025) In addition to the ancient Buddhist art of the Mogao Caves to the east, Dunhuang has a new attraction 20 kilometers to the west. It’s a model of an ancient Chinese city, built my a Japanese film company for use as a movie set. The Japanese never do anything halfway and they spent the equivalent of over a half million U.S. dollars making sure the set looked the part….
Local News for 8/26/25
Booklovers’ Cafe – Jonathan Evison, The Heart of Winter
(Airdate: August 26, 2025) Jonathan Evison has been assessing America through novels about working-class folks — home health aides, lawn workers. His 2011 novel West of Here seems most in companionship with his latest, Small World: Both are sprawling sagas with dual timelines that follow late-19th-century Westerners and their contemporary descendants. “Small World” opens with a train accident in 2019. The engineer, Walter Bergen, has had a perfect record until this, the final run of his career. The train, heading to Seattle, is “hurtling toward the unavoidable” — both the inevitable crash and, for Walter, an increasing awareness of that final movement in our lives. As ever, an enjoyable conversation about engaging characters.
Growing Grains in the Maritime Northwest
(Airdate: August 25, 2025) This week, Attention Please! features Micaela Colley of Breadlab on the topic of developing grain varieties, especially buckwheat, for growing in Jefferson County and the Maritime Northwest. Hosted by Phil Andrus.
County Connections
(Airdate: August 22, 2025) JIm Burke and co-host Commissioner Heather Dudley-Nollette welcome Director of Emergency Management Willie Bence and Danny Milholland, Head of The Production Alliance. They discuss the ways DEM and the PRODUCTION ALLIANCE work together to host events that build community involvement and resilience, such as Airport Day, The All-County Picnic (now PREPAREDNESS DAY – https://www.co.jefferson.wa.us/1067/Preparedness-Planning – neighborhood-preparedness/), The Connectivity Summit, The Farm Tour, Boatyard BBQ and Port Townsend Pride.
Brewocracy Now ~ 8/21/25
Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro and KPTZ’s Taylor Clark were joined by Director of Planning and Community Development Emma Bolin and Port Townsend’s Grant Coordinator Renata Munfrada for a discussion on the process and progress with Evans Vista, a proposed housing projected that will include affordable”middle housing”. The presentation on this from the city council meeting last Monday is here. The city web page to report concerns (like Taylor’s paper wasp nest) is here: https://cityofpt.us/publicworks/page/report-concern-inquiry.
Local News for 8/21/25
Twilight of the Gods
(Airdate: August 21, 2025 – Twilight of the Gods)
#737 Baby Dungeness Crabs and Light Traps
(Reprise airdate: August 20, 2025) Dungeness crabs are hugely important in the Pacific Northwest – commercially, recreationally, ecologically, and traditionally. Yet scientists and resource managers don’t know how big the population is, how and why it varies over time, or how significant natural and human caused factors can impact these populations. Join Nan Evans to explore how new and cooperative efforts (and some very simple techniques) are trying to better understand the dynamic Dungeness crab populations.
