(Airdate: May 30, 2025) Co-hosts Jim Burke and Commissioner Heidi Eisenhour talk with Chris Macklin, Assistant Manager of Parks and Recreation, and Sam Miller, Recreation Supervisor for Jefferson County about athletic and recreational programs with Parks and Recreation this summer and fall mostly for children but also adults.
KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro welcomed the Port Townsend Main Street Program to BrewNow: we where joined by outgoing Executive Director Mari Mullen who reflected on her 26 years running the program, and we also celebrated the new Executive Director Natalie Maitland.
(Airdate: May 29, 2025 – The Girl at the High School Dance)
(Airdate: May 27, 2025) Maryanne interviews Jose Borrayo, the owner of the PT Garden Center. Jose’s a classic entrepreneur. He started out as the maintenance guy at the Garden Center and after years of hard work and study he ended up owning the place. He’s been through some challenging times. During the pandemic his main supplier of plant starts and herbs went out of business. So he ended up buying land and erecting a large greenhouse. Now he grows his own. That results in better prices both for him and for his customers. He’s also expanding into landscaping, partnering with his brother. Jose’s insatiable curiosity has led him to read and absorb every label. When it comes to gardens he’s now a finely tuned expert.
(Airdate: May 27, 2025) We’ve been staying at the Jiayuguan Guest House, one of the most expensive places we’ve stayed at so far. We figured the Chinese Ministry of Tourism inspector in charge must have been bribed to award them two stars! We’ve been visiting all the surrounding convenient sites, but the one site we decided to forego was the July 1st Glacier, located over 100 kilometers away in the Qilian Mountains….
(May 26, 2025 – Elevated Ice Cream)
(Airdate: May 26, 2025) On this Memorial Day Attention Please!, Diane Musick of the Master Gardeners Foundation opens the show to introduce this year’s Secret Garden Tour. Following Diane, US Navy Captain Brian Cullin, retired, talks of his twenty-one year career as a press officer in the Navy, including his service in the White House during the Clinton administration. Hosted by Phil Andrus.
(Airdate: May 23, 2025) KPTZ’s Taylor Clark got together with Jefferson County Commissioner Greg Brotherton and they talked with Brent Butler, Jefferson County Strategic Planner, Ben Majors from the Department of Health, and Vince Maniaci from the DCD about the Coordinated Water System Plan (CWSP) for water systems management.
(Airdate: May 22, 2025 – The Story of Louie Louie)
KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro were joined by Youth & Outreach Services Library Manager Emily Bufford from the Port Townsend Public Library talking about the upcoming Summer Reading program, which kicks off June 1. More information is available at https://ptpubliclibrary.org/library/page/summer-reading-program-2025.
There will be goats!
