(Airdate: February 16, 2026 – Eaglemount Rockery) – A charming little world
Grab Bag 2
(Airdate: February 9, 2026 -Grab Bag 2) – extra short histories.
February 16-28 KPTZ Programming Highlights
Read the latest KPTZ Spotlight for February 16-28. Many of our program hosts provide specifics about what’s planned for this half month. If you’re not already a Spotlight subscriber, you’re invited to join our Mailing List. See KPTZ’s current Weekly On-Air Schedule and Daily Program Schedule.
County Connections
(Airdate: February 13, 2026) Commissioner Greg Brotherton and Jim Burke are joined this week by
Recompete Coordinator Molly Pringle and, representing Clallam County, Angi Klahn to talk about the first year of The 35 Million RECOMPETE Grant that aims to get the Prime Age Employment Group (ages 25-54 yrs,. old ) and others. The Recompete Pilot Program is a federally-funded initiative to create and connect people to living-wage, local jobs in Clallam and Jefferson Counties. Listeners can find out more by going to https://www.recompetewa.org/
and https://olympicconnect.org/.
Brewocracy Now ~ 2/12/26
KPTZ’s Taylor Clark was joined by Melody Sky Weaver, Community Services Director for the City of Port Townsend, and by Katy Goodman, PT’s Arts & Culture Coordinator. We learned all about Soundcheck, our local upcoming arts festival. More information may be found at here: https://ptcreativedistrict.org/soundcheck/
Local News for 2/12/26
The Discovery of Electricity
(Airdate: February 5, 2026 – The Discovery of Electricity)
Local News for 2/11/26
Our Working Waterfront ~ 2/10/26
(Airdate: February 10, 2026) Meet Nicholas Verrochi, who’s in the midst of a four-month haul-out in Port Townsend’s famed boatyard. Six of the finest shipwrights around and a raft of project volunteers, are fixing the rot, planks, frames and centerline that’s holding the 104 year old historic wooden boat, Argonaut II, together. Nicholas lives aboard, and hosts charters around our beautiful San Juan Islands and beyond. From corporate cruiser to missionary vessel to tugboat, Argonaut II has seen it all, and now Nicholas is dedicating himself to bringing her back to glory.
Silk
(Airdate: February 10, 2026) We’re in Xinjiang province in the oasis of Turfan and we’re touring the sites outside of town.The first site is the area’s most famous. It’s the eroded red slopes of the Flaming Mountains that begin just north of town. On a hot summer day the surface temperature on these mountains exceeds 80 degrees Celsius, hot enough to fry an egg or a monk. Which brings us to another story….
