KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and guest host City of Port Townsend’s Community Services Director Melody Sky Weaver will be chatting with Danielle McClelland and Christy Spencer from the Port Townsend Film Festival about the long-standing film and book pairing collaboration for the Community Read. This year the film is an Abba inspired Mama Mia sing-along at the Rose Theatre on Saturday, March 29^th at 10am.

KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and cohost Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro talked about the importance of building community and looking forward toward the future. In the second half of the broadcast we explored some details about the city’s budget in response to some of the things Taylor has been reading on social media about the budget not being balanced. Listen in to hear John’s explanation, it’s quite interesting.

(Airdate March 5, 2025) KPTZ aired the 2025 Port Townsend State of the City meeting live from the Port Pavilion at Point Hudson with Port Townsend Mayor David Faber and City Manager John Mauro. ( We recognize there were sound quality issues due to the zoom feed, and we will be working to correct those next time we do a broadcast like this.)

KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and co-host Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro get together again with Danny Milholland and Zak Moser from The Production Alliance to talk more about the upcoming Connectivity Summit, which will take place March 7, 8, and 9 at Chimacum High School. More information here: https://www.theproductionalliance.org/events/connectivity If you want to hear a special moment in this show, go to 11:57 where John asks a great question about motivation and gets a great answer from Danny about the importance of connecting community. This is why we have community radio.

KPTZ’s Taylor Clark talked with Emma Bolin, Director of Planning and Community Development, and Steve King, Director of Public works. We revisited the golf course/housing situation (it’s off the docket and not being considered) as well as the Water Street sewer project. The main topic was the Shoreline Master Plan project update, and there will be meetings tonight (February 20) at 5:30 at the Cotton Building and again on March 12, same time and location. More information about the Shoreline Master Plan Project Update is available here.

KPTZ’s Taylor Clark welcomed Steve King (PT Director of Public Works) and Shelly Leavens (Director of Communications & Marketing) Shelly talked about the city’s support of a single point of contact for news organizations, and then Steve brought us up to speed on proposals for downtown parking, Port stormwater handling and the Port expansion project (including the now famous trees) as well as an open space inventory.

Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro is back! We set to rest a rumor about the city banning farming and growing food (there is no plan to do that) and we finished up with a discussion about federal grant funding status. And we also covered a lot of ground in between. Listen in for a lively discussion with John and KPTZ’s Taylor Clark.

KPTZ’s Taylor Clark was joined by Port Townsend Mayor David Faber and Director of Public Works Director Steve King as we discussed plans for road repair in the city. We talked about grants, ditches and drainage, substrates, chip seal, hot mix, asphalt, gravel, glacial till, and why our roads need so much work. We also heard some details about that flooding out on Hastings a few weeks ago and how it got fixed.