Local News for 4/01/25
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April 1-15 KPTZ Programming Highlights
For a compendium of upcoming featured programs, check KPTZ Spotlight for April 1-15. 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.
Attention Please! Visits Marrowstone Island
(Airdate: March 31, 2025) This week’s Attention Please! takes us to Marrowstone Island, first for a conversation with Teri Nomura and Celia Fry about the AAUW Home and Kitchen Tour and then we go to the store, the Nordland General Store, and visit with Store board member Linda Secord and co-manager Sam Sparks. Hosted by Phil Andrus.
County Connections
(Airdate: March 28, 2025) This week on County Connections co-hosts Jim Burke and Commissioner Greg Brotherton welcome Viki Sonntag and Audrey Morford from the Housing Fund Board to talk about the new 5-year homeless and affordable housing plan. Our outro is Five Years by David Bowie.
Brewocracy Now ~ 3/27/25
KPTZ’s Taylor Clark sat back and really enjoyed Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro‘s interview with Big in Sweden author Sally Franson. We were joined by Community Services Director Melody Sky Weaver who will be appearing with Sally Franson in a discussion Thursday night at 6pm at the Maritime Center as part of the Port Townsend 20th Anniversary Community Read.
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#716 Seabird Conservation, part 1
(Airdate: March 26, 2025) Please join Nature Now host Debaran Kelso as we welcome our special guest Peter Harrison. Peter is a world renown seabird expert, artist, and conservationist, and this week we will be speaking about writing and illustrating his beautiful new book Seabirds: The New Identification Guide. We end with exploring the world of the albatrosses, in anticipation of his upcoming public lecture sponsored by the Port Townsend Marine Science Center on March 30, 2025. This is Part 1 of a two-part program.
#715 Birds and Their Feathers, part 1
(Airdate: March 19, 2025) Envision a bird – any bird. What do you first notice? The feathers, of course. But, what do you really know about those beautiful and amazingly variable structures? Join Nan Evans and Christie Lassen to explore feather forms and structures, colors and patterns, and the incredible usefulness and functions of feathers.
(Part 1 of 2)
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