(Airdate: April 9, 2025) Nan Evans and Christie Lassen are at it again in this Part 2 of “Birds and Their Feathers”. Join them this week as they explore such topics as: What is the impact of diet on feathers? How do feathers keep birds warm? And cool? How do feathers help birds fly?
(Airdate: April 8, 2025) Corrin Da Costa visits Booklovers’ Cafe to talk about her novel Dead Daddy Issues: Daughters and Fathers Life and Death – Sometimes it’s Complicated. It certainly is! This novel explores grief, guilt, families and tarot cards. This book takes the main character Leia home again but as Thomas Wolfe famously wrote you can’t go home again. There are many twists in the plot and the reader is along for the ride hoping for the best.
Vocal Powerhouse Mollie O’Brien and Guitarist Rich Moore Bring it to the Palindrome. KPTZ is excited to join Rainshadow Recording in welcoming singer Mollie O’Brien and guitarist Rich Moore to the Palindrome in Port Townsend on April 17 at 7:30pm. For nearly 30 years they have quietly made it their mission to find, mine, and reinvent other artists’ songs. Mollie and Rich are geniuses at the craft of interpretation in the way that great singers have made the songs of their era their own. As songwriters they add their own tunes to the canon of American roots music and show us they’re completely at home with their musical selves. Mollie has long been known as a singer who doesn’t recognize musical boundaries, and audiences love her fluid ability to make herself at home in any genre while never sacrificing the essence of the song. She is a singer at the top of her game, who’s not afraid to take risks both vocally and in the material she chooses. Mollie won a Grammy in 1997 for her participation in Sugar Hill Records True Life Blues and is a member of the Colorado Music Hall of Fame. Rich, while known to produce some of the funniest onstage commentary, is also a powerhouse guitar player who can keep up with O’Brien’s twists and turns, from blues to traditional folk tunes to jazz and rock. He creates a band with just his guitar and, as a result, theirs is an equal partnership.
Each month KPTZ’s Chris Bricker joins his co-hosts Eron Berg, Port of Port Townsend’s Director, and Port Commissioner Pam Petranek to bring you news, updates, and stories surrounding our vibrant maritime community. Spike Africa (pictured above) is the last coasting schooner, with a proud history of carrying America’s goods across the world’s oceans. Her every detail combines beauty and grace with sturdy seaworthiness. Built by poet and designer Robert Sloan, Spike Africa was named after the legendary sailor of the same name, who was lovingly and humorously monikered “President of the Pacific Ocean.” This iconic Schooner is in our boatyard on the hard and getting thorough attention from a flock of fine shipwrights. We speak with Spike’s current owner Wade Hall, with Doug Jones who’s creating the new foremast, and with Ian Weedman, owner of Brian Toss Yacht Riggers.
(Airdate: April 8, 2025) We’re in the towns of Jinguan or “Wine Spring,” We’ve just concluded our visit to the spring. On our way back into town, we stopped at a museum that had the usual collection of stones and bones and busted pots, but it did feature one unusual exhibit.
This month on the Public Health Report to the Jefferson County Board of Commissioners, there was a public declaration at the top naming April 7 to 13 Public Health Week here in Jefferson County as it is Public Health Week nationwide. Then Dr. Allison Berry talked about the special challenges facing Washington State and the county due to the cuts in funding from the federal and state governments. Willie Bence talked about FEMA and Wildfire prep. Property owners can go to wildfireready.dnr.wa.gov and get a free assessment from East Jefferson Fire Rescue of their property and the ways they can make property and homes safer from wildfire. Willie said after a relatively “normal” spring we can expect hotter and drier conditions July through September. The assessment is free, and is available until June.
(Airdate: April 7, 2025 – Point Hudson)
(Airdate: April 7, 2025) Wildfire risk is growing. Robert Wittenberg, Community Risk Manager with East Jefferson Fire Rescue (EJFR), walks and talks with KPTZ’s Jon Pinnow, discussing how homeowners can prepare for the growing threat and giving practical advice on how to make homes and landscapes safer. This conversation is part of a broader push to help communities across Washington get Wildfire Ready – and, thanks to EJFR, free home assessments are available right here in East Jefferson County.
(Airdate: April 4, 2025) Taylor Clark sat in for KPTZ’s Jim Burke, and co-hosted along with Jefferson County Commissioner Heather Dudley Nollette as she continued her “County Government 101” course by welcoming Jefferson County Auditor Brenda Huntingford to the show. Tune in to learn about what the auditor’s office does. It is very public-facing and chances are you already have used their services.
