(Airdate: September 22, 2025) Taking us from sheep to shawl, Nancy Sedlacek, Jan Gillanders and Andy Harksen invite our community to the 4th Annual Quilcene Fiber Arts Festival. Hosted by Phil Andrus.
(Airdate: September 19, 2025) This week on County Connections, Betsy Carlson, chair of Jefferson Marine Resources Committee (MRC) and Citizen Science Coordinator for Port Townsend Marine Science Center (PTMSC), and Neil Harrington, Environmental Biologist for the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, and a member of MRC, speak with Jim Burke and Commissioner Heidi Eisenhour about the MRC, and the committees work to protect and improve shoreline and marine habitat in Jefferson County. The next meeting of the MRC is Tuesday October 7 from 6 to 8pm at the WSU extension in Port Hadlock and is open to the public. More info at https://jeffersonmrc.org/.
KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and co-host Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro were joined by PT Director of Finance and Technology Services Jodi Adams and Charlie Bush, the City Administrator of Sedro-Woolley and we discussed city budgets and financial planning.
(Airdate: September 17, 2025) Nan Evans talks with local Port Townsend mushroom
enthusiasts, Helen Kolff and Jessica Latourelle. They explore attitudes, myths, truths,
and edibility of mushrooms. Did you know what we see are only the fruiting bodies of
extensive mycelial networks? Or, that they are not plants and they perform critical
ecosystem functions. And, why are some people fascinated with fungi?
(Airdate: September 16, 2025) Maryanne interviews Daniel Ferland, music teacher & founder of YeaMusic, the popular summer music camps for kids. Daniel’s passion for music has now been passed on to Port Townsend & Chimacum students for close to two decades. Against all odds and under Daniel’s direction those bands tell a David + Goliath story — consistently winning awards in competition with much larger high schools. Last summer’s camps were almost cancelled due to the sweeping cuts in arts funding by the Trump administration. First Federal Bank and the Jefferson County Foundation stepped in with grants at the very last moment and saved the camps. But the group rather desperately needs your donations. Go to yeamusic.org to donate — by the way, YeaMusic is an acronym for “youth education in the arts.”
(Airdate: September 16, 2025) We’re at Gansu Province at Yanguan Pass. Until mondern times the Pass marked the westernmost outpost of the Chinese empire. One such attempt to further extend their dominion to the west was the establishment of Loulan, 400 kilometers to the west, in the middle of the forbidding waste of the Lop Desert. Two Buddhist travelers, as well as Marco Polo were successful in crossing this landscape, though all three were convinced the desert was haunted….
(Airdate: September 15, 2025) Chris Bricker interviews Danielle McClelland, Executive Director of the PT Film Festival. Danielle shares the growth, challenges and priorities of the Festival now as we experience the 26th annual festival.
Jim Burke and co-host Commissioner Greg Brotherton welcome Viet Nam combat vet John Hamilton. John is the chair of the County Veteran’s Advisory Committee, and Service officer for The Veteran’s Assistance Fund. John, Greg, and Jim discuss “The Wall That Heals,” a 3/4 replica of the Viet Nam Veteran’s Memorial which is on display 24 hours a day from Thursday afternoon 9/11/25 through 2pm Sunday 9/14/25 at The Jefferson County Airport. They also discuss the Veteran’s Advisory Board and the Veteran’s assistance fund. Tuesdays from 9am to noon John is at the Port Townsend Community Center to assist veterans signing up for benefits. For info on The Wall That Heals go to the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial website. For veterans services, go to this link.
Taylor Clark was out ill today, so Karen Anderson filled in on the weekly conversation with Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro.
(Airdate: September 10, 2025) Join Nan Evans as she talks with Lynda Mapes, longtime environmental reporter for The Seattle Times, about how culture, economics and science have fundamentally changed how we use the timber resources and perceive our relationship with forests. Much of the conversation is driven by Mapes’ most recent book, The Trees are Speaking: Dispaches from the Salmon Forest. This is Part 2 of a two-part conversation.
