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July 22, 2026: Nigel O’Shea. John Mauro resigns as PT City Manager; financing sewer lift stations (TRANSCRIPT)
(Reprise airdate: July 22, 2026) 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.
(Airdate: July 21, 2026) Maryanne interviews Apple Martine, director of Jefferson County Public Health. Her parents were into what is usually called an alternative lifestyle. But Apple discovered a passion for learning. Her first degree was in zoology. Somehow that led her to healthcare and more specifically nursing. Many of us first became aware of our Public Health Department during the pandemic. But it does much more. Their underlying mission is to protect human life. The Health Department can literally close down restaurants that are not up to code. Also, as there is no Planned Parenthood office in Jefferson County, the Public Health Department helps bridge that gap. Lately, working with the “unhoused” has been a major priority.
(Airdate: July 21, 2026) When the Chinese first noticed the Kazakhs, they were part of the confederation of tribes known as the Wusun. That was two thousand years ago. Over the succeeding centuries the Wusun confederation mingled with other nomad groups, including the Turks, the Uyghurs and the Mongols. And finally in the 15th century they formed their own independent tribe…
(Airdate: July 20, 2026) KPTZ’s Taylor Clark got to talk with Annie Scott, the director of the Jefferson County Library about the role of libraries in the modern world and services and programs the Jefferson County Library provides.
KPTZ’S Taylor Clark and Port Townsend CIty Manager John Mauro were joined by Mayor Amy Howard and we talked about last Monday’s Council all-day planning meeting setting priories for the 2027 work plan. Also, coming up, Mayor Howard let us know about a July 27 Special Workshop meeting where Council will be discussing leadership. John started today’s BrewNow by letting us know that while the Bambridge Island Council has offered him the job, he has not yet accepted.
(Airdate: July 14, 2026) We’re in Xinjiang Province at Heaven Lake, high in the Heavenly Mountains north of Urumqi, lying in our Yurt under a pile of blankets, sipping Cognac and recalling the story of how the Chinese and our hosts got together—our hosts being the Kazakh nomads in the Yurt next-door…
(Airdate: July 15, 2026) Please join Nature Now host Debaran Kelso and our guest Sophie DeGroot, the Noxious Weed Coordinator for Jefferson County, for the promised second part of our program on invasive weeds! This week we get down and dirty out in the field, focusing on how to remove a couple of our arch enemies, English ivy and holly, along with discussing removal strategies for other invasive species in our area. Part 2 of a two part program.
(Airdate: July 14, 2026) Each month KPTZ’s Chris Bricker joins co-hosts, Port Commissioner Pam Petranek, and Port Of Port Townsend’s Director Eron Berg, as they roam the Boatyard and explore stories from shipwrights, crews, and vessels alike. This month Chris has a one-on-one conversation with Eron Berg about the whys and wherefores of the Yard’s recently completed Boatyard Stormwater Project, and how essentIal it is for the Boatyard’s furure. Then we join Pam, Eron, and the crowd at the project’s ribbon-cutting celebration.
