(Airdate: June 11, 2025) Please join Nature Now host Debaran Kelso this week as we speak with founder Linda Landkammer and naturalist Dr. Fred Sharpe out in the garden, celebrating the lovely Kul Kah Han Native Plant Garden on a gorgeous summer afternoon!
Each month KPTZ’s Chris Bricker joins co-hosts Port of Port Townsend’s Director Eron Berg and Port Commissioner Pam Petranek to bring you news, updates and stories surrounding our vibrant maritime community. Chris joins Eron for his monthly update, and then Pam and Chris take a tour among the boats on our working waterfront with six delightful goal-oriented and curious members of the Port Townsend Maritime Academy. The Academy is a free half-day program that provides high school juniors and seniors from eleven surrounding districts the opportunity to gain maritime experience, skills, and certifications while exploring different careers in the maritime industry.
(Airdate: June 10, 2025) Maryanne interviews Tyler Zwirtz, the owner Type Townsend Studio, a rather unique shop in downtown PT that specializes in old typewriters and various antiques. Tyler was, well, one of those kids who started serious collecting of typewriters when he was about 10 years old. By the time he was in his early 20’s he had seven storage lockers strung across the country. He was living in Seattle and exploring the Northwest. When he hit Port Townsend he fell in love with the town so he moved here without a job in sight. But he stumbled onto the shop and it turned out the previous owner was shutting down. But he bought it. It turned out the seven storage lockers had more than enough inventory to open his own shop. He’s now celebrating the shop’s one-year birthday. And – believe it or not — he’s making money!
(Airdate: June 10, 2025) We’re rolling down the asphalt on our way from Jiayuguan to Dunhuang. We finally left the snow-capped ridges of the Qilian mountains behind and traded them in for the eroded red and gray of the Gansu Badlands. Despite the nine-hour ride, we were feeling good for the first time in days. Our fevers were gone! Finn honored our change in fortune by penning a bus ride…
(Airdate: June 9, 2025) Attention Please! Host Charlie Bermant talked to the three declared candidates for the Port Townsend City Council position 1: Fred Obee, Mikki Porter, and Dylan Quarles, who seek to succeed retiring council member Ben Thomas. This is significant, as it is the only race that has a primary contest (the top two vote getters in the August 5 Primary will advance to the November 4 General Election).
(Airdate: June 6, 2025) Listen to the initial post of our newest show, In the Garden, with Julia Cordz, Barbara Faurot, Mary Beth Haralovich, and Dianna Wiklund. The show airs Thursday from 6-6:30pm.
(Airdate: June 6, 2025) KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and Jefferson County Commissioner Heather Dudley-Nollette welcomed Jefferson County Clerk Amanda Hamilton as we learned more about what clerk’s office does for the residents of Jefferson County.
KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro sat down with Port Townsend’s newest City Council member Neil Nelson.
(Airdate: June 5, 2025 – The Bears Break Out)
(Airdate: June 4, 2025) Nan Evans talks with Thor Hanson, biologist and author, to explore the wonders of biodiversity. Biodiversity is the variety of life on earth from genes and species to ecosystems. Biodiversity encompasses the interactions between all living things, animals (including humans), plants, fungi, microorganisms and the environments they inhabit and communities they create. Biodiversity has been attributed with holding the world together.
