
Local News for 9/03/24


(Airdate: September 3, 2024) We’re in Gsnsu province and we’ve just arrived in the provincial capital of Lanzhou. Lanzhou hugs both banks of the Yellow River for more than 20 kilometers, and after Xi’an it’s the second largest city on the Silk Road—a position of which it’s immensely proud. The week we arrived, the city was preparing for it’s first Silk Road Festival.…

(Reprise airdates: September 2 and 9, 2024) After the business of the Wooden Boat Festival, KPTZ presents an encore of this special Attention Please! (original air date 10/30/2023). KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and Jim Burke head to the Boat Haven to meet with Adventuress cook George Clark to get a crew’s eye view of what goes on in the galley to keep everyone aboard well fed. Adventuress is a 133′ gaff-rigged schooner built in 1913 that is operated by the non-profit organization Sound Experience, providing environmental education in the Salish Sea.

For a compendium of upcoming featured programs, check KPTZ Spotlight for September 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.

(Airdate: August 30, 2024) This week on County Connections Jim Burke and co-host Commissioner Kate Dean spoke with Erin Reading of the Port Townsend Psychedelic Society and Kristin Barnes ND who is a Navy Vet and a physician who works with veterans who suffer from PTSD. They discuss the decriminalization of entheogens in Jefferson County and the possible uses of natural substances, such as psilocybin mushrooms, in a therapeutic setting as opposed to recreational way.



(Airdate: August 29, 2024) Just Soup is a weekly free lunch program that has been serving the community for more than a decade and is housed at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Port Townsend. Volunteer cooks create a delicious meal and serve nearly 100 lunches each week. Join us as we discuss with Leslie Watkins this fabulous gathering time filled with laughter, music and most of all, soup.

(Reprise airdate: August 28, 2024) Please join host Debaran Kelso as we meet at the remarkable Dungeness River Nature Center with our special guests and founding members Annette Hanson and Clare Manis Hatler, telling the story of how the dream of a world class nature center came to life! Part 1 of a two part program.