
Local News for 1/16/25



For a compendium of upcoming featured programs, check KPTZ Spotlight for January 16-31. 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.


Each month, KPTZ’s Chris Bricker joins Co-hosts Eron Berg, Port of Port Townsend’s Director, and Port Commissioner Pam Petranek, to bring you news and stories surrounding our vibrant maritime community. Around our working waterfront, you may have heard the phrase, “A man and his boat,” or “A woman and her boat.” How about “One man and two boats”? That’s not necessarily unusual either, but the tenacious owner of two old sailing vessels adds his own unique twist to that phrase. After Eron gives us this month’s Port update, we then turn to owner CJ Burleson as he recounts the comprehensive history and fascinating story of one of those vessels – the Elsita.

(Airdate: January 14, 2025) Cris Wilson welcomes mystery novelist Margaret Mizushima to Booklovers’ Cafe. She is the author of Gathering Mist, the 9th in the series of her Timber Creek canine mysteries. If you love criminal procedurals mixed with German Shepherd Search and Rescue you will love the stories of Mattie Wray and her sidekick Robo. Margaret has recently moved to Port Townsend from Colorado and she decided to set this book on the very “mysterious and foreboding” Olympic Peninsula.


(Airdate: January 10, 2025) This week on County Connections, Jim Burke and co-host Commissioner Greg Brotherton spoke with Viola Ware, Director of Housing and Community Outreach for OIyCap about the “Point in Time” count of the homeless population in the county which takes place on January 30th. They discuss the difficulties of the count in a rural county and the need for it, and how it affects funding that HUD disburses to the county for housing programs. Folks can volunteer or donate to OlyCap by calling Sheila at 360-385-2571 or send email to [email protected].
