This week on the Compass, we see fissures appearing in Port Townsend’s close-knit community from the increasingly acrid presidential campaign, then we revisit the question of what precautions to take as we enter the flu season, and finally we take a look at the marijuana landscape in Jefferson County now that the legalization dust has settled.

From the autumnal equinox to the vernal equinox, extreme low tides occur only at night…a fact that turns out to have profound implications in the lives of shellfish farmers like Peter Downey, with whom we take a midnight walk on the beach. (A reprise from the early days of KPTZ.)

This week on the Compass, we take a voyage from Half Moon Bay, CA to the edge of the continental shelf with legendary pelagic birding expedition leader Debi Shearwater, and encounter not only rare birds, but whales — many of them.

Could it be that many of the world’s most dreaded diseases, from Alzheimer’s to cancer and heart disease, can be prevented or even cured by a simple change in diet? This week, in a reprise of a program from last March, we talk to a doctor who tells us it could.

This week on the Compass, a retired fireman in Port Ludlow dips his toe into political waters and finds one of the toughest challenges of his career. And we talk with a peace activist who recently went to Syria to talk with President Bashar al-Assad.

This week on the Compass we try to estimate the effect of this year’s Port Townsend Film Festival being the first without a special guest. And we reprise a portion of KPTZ’s live two-hour broadcast last weekend from the 40th annual Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival.

This week on the Compass we pay a visit to the man who determines what your Jefferson County property is worth in a rapidly changing market.  And Charlie Bermant considers the ways digital technology is transforming the transmission of musical traditions.

This week on the Compass, Mike Chapman, the man who captured the Millennium Bomber in Port Angeles tells us how it happened, and also tells us why he wants to be your District 24 legislator in Olympia. Then we reprise a 2013 visit with the Threshold Choir, a band of angels who sing to the sick or dying.

This week on the Compass we talk with a peace activist who is disappointed that the charge against him for his act of civil disobedience was so lenient. And we visit with the organizers of an unique annual event that celebrates community while preparing for disaster.

This week on the Compass we talk with bird rescuer extraordinaire Cindy Daily about the mysterious deaths of hundreds of rhinoceros auklets in the Strait of Juan de Fuca and what to do if you encounter a sick seabird. And also with the peace walkers come to Port Townsend for the second time this year, this time to commemorate the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.