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(Airdate: August 29, 2025) Commissioner Greg Brotherton and co-host Jim Burke welcome David Baalif, Exeutive Director, and Phoebe Reid, Community Workforce Coordinator. Both with EDC Team Jefferson. The Economic Development Council (EDC) Team Jefferson focuses on high-leverage, place-based activities that improve the economic well-being and quality of life for people in Jefferson County, and the living systems in which we are embedded. They seek mentors and those looking to expand their businesses who might need guidance, training and other resources. The website is: https://www.edcteamjefferson.org/.

Brewocracy Now ~ 8/28/25

KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and guest co-host Melody Sky Weaver (Community Services Director for the city of PT) were joined by Katy Goodman, Arts and Culture Coordinator for the city and we talked about the Creative District and the city’s active role in supporting the arts in our community. More information is here and here. Also check out “Outsider Street Art Project” which will be involved in creating art of the soon to be replaced memorial field fence. Email [email protected] for more info.

Laura Newman and Sylvia Heins

Laura Newman, Buzzy Donahue, and Sylvia Heins

(airdate: Aug 27, 2025). KPTZ’s (airdate: Aug 27, 2025). KPTZ’s Buzzy Donahue was joined by Laura Newman and Sylvia Heins (the Jazz & Soul duo Laurovia) as well as Heidi Hainey from Taps ahead of the Tap’s Grand Opening party on August 29.

#738 Wildlife Tracking and Conservation, part 1

(Reprise airdate: August 27, 2025) Please join Nature Now host Debaran Kelso as we speak with Scott Brinton, co-founder and executive director of the CedarRoot School, about tracking and its importance to wildlife conservation. This is part 1 of a two-part program.

Silk – 85

(Airdate: August 26, 2025) In addition to the ancient Buddhist art of the Mogao Caves to the east, Dunhuang has a new attraction 20 kilometers to the west. It’s a model of an ancient Chinese city, built my a Japanese film company for use as a movie set. The Japanese never do anything halfway and they spent the equivalent of over a half million U.S. dollars making sure the set looked the part….

Booklovers’ Cafe – Jonathan Evison, The Heart of Winter

(Airdate: August 26, 2025) Jonathan Evison has been assessing America through novels about working-class folks — home health aides, lawn workers. His 2011 novel West of Here seems most in companionship with his latest, Small World: Both are sprawling sagas with dual timelines that follow late-19th-century Westerners and their contemporary descendants. “Small World” opens with a train accident in 2019. The engineer, Walter Bergen, has had a perfect record until this, the final run of his career. The train, heading to Seattle, is “hurtling toward the unavoidable” — both the inevitable crash and, for Walter, an increasing awareness of that final movement in our lives. As ever, an enjoyable conversation about engaging characters.

Growing Grains in the Maritime Northwest

(Airdate: August 25, 2025) This week, Attention Please! features Micaela Colley of Breadlab on the topic of developing grain varieties, especially buckwheat, for growing in Jefferson County and the Maritime Northwest. Hosted by Phil Andrus.

County Connections

(Airdate: August 22, 2025) JIm Burke and co-host Commissioner Heather Dudley-Nollette welcome Director of Emergency Management Willie Bence and Danny Milholland, Head of The Production Alliance. They discuss the ways DEM and the PRODUCTION ALLIANCE work together to host events that build community involvement and resilience, such as Airport Day, The All-County Picnic (now PREPAREDNESS DAY – https://www.co.jefferson.wa.us/1067/Preparedness-Planning – neighborhood-preparedness/), The Connectivity Summit, The Farm Tour, Boatyard BBQ and Port Townsend Pride.

Brewocracy Now ~ 8/21/25

Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro and KPTZ’s Taylor Clark were joined by Director of Planning and Community Development Emma Bolin and Port Townsend’s Grant Coordinator Renata Munfrada for a discussion on the process and progress with Evans Vista, a proposed housing projected that will include affordable”middle housing”. The presentation on this from the city council meeting last Monday is here. The city web page to report concerns (like Taylor’s paper wasp nest) is here: https://cityofpt.us/publicworks/page/report-concern-inquiry.

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