(Airdate: May 9, 2025) Co-hosts Jim Burke and Commissioner Heather Dudley-Nolette welcome Prosecuting Attorney James Kennedy. This is part of Heather’s County Government 101 series (What does the Prosecuting Attorney’s Office do?) It turns out, a lot more than prosecute. The office also advises and defends the county.
(Airdate: May 8, 2025 – Barcelona Mystery)
KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro welcomed Jefferson County Commissioner (District 1 ) Heather Dudley-Nolllette and explored intergovernmental collaboration.
This is KPTZ 91.9 FM in Port Townsend, Washington. I’m Taylor Clark with your local news and commentary for Thursday, May 8, 2025. For today’s news, we will be hearing report by Willie Bence, Director of the Jefferson County Department of Emergency Management from the Monday County Commissioners meeting. I’ve had to edit this slightly for length, but we will include the unedited version on our website at kptz.org. SO… Here’s Willie Bence answering a KPTZ listener question about the situation with FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
(Airdate: May 7, 2025) Nan Evans talks with Port Townsend photographer Kerry Tremain about the beauty of his bird photography and the emotional connections we all have to birds once we open ourselves to honor that we humans co-evolved with birds.
(Airdate: May 6, 2025) Jennifer Gold comes into the studio to tell us about her latest and most ambitious novel, Polite Calamities. Jennifer aka Nicole Persun writes very discussable book club fiction. I believe this book makes the leap to literary fiction. It is an historical novel set in the late 1960s at a beach enclave in Rhode Island. It is The Great Gatsby meets Taylor Swift and the story of The Last American Dynasty. The changing culture, feminism, art and even horses all play their part. The three women characters are central to the plot and each is unique and well developed. The reader is enthralled and cares about the outcome. Find out more about Jennifer and her coaching projects at jennifergoldauthor.com.
KPTZ’s Chris Bricker and Siobhan Canty, President & CEO of Jefferson Community Foundation, explore new paradigms and new developments from our County’s good people doing good work. In this episode, Chris and Siobhan visit the Far Reach Botanical Conservancy with founders Sue Milliken and Kelly Dodson, who possess a lifetime embodiment of plant knowledge and a long history of cultivating and conserving rare plants. On 6 acres in Port Townsend, the Conservancy acquires and conserves botanically significant wild and cultivated ornamental plants new to North America with special emphasis on those that are threatened or vulnerable to loss.
(Airdate: May 6, 2025) We’ve been visiting the Jiayuguan fort and the Great Wall west of town. In honor of its connection to the Wall as a monument to human effort, Jiauguan has built a museum in the shape of the Great Wall itself. Inside, we viewed reconstructions of different sections. Among the stories conspicuously missing was that of the man who built the wall in the first place.
