(Airdate: May 1, 2025 – The Existential Dilemma of the Lonely Radio Announcer)
Podcasts
Brewocracy Now ~ 5/01/25
This week on Brewocracy Now, Jim Burke sits in for host Taylor Clark. Jim and co-host City Manager John Mauro discuss a wide range of topics: Spring, Rhody Fest, Water Quality, Potholes, Golf Course, Fort Worden and this wonderful town and county we live in. Plus, the County BOCC has selected the next County Administrator!
#721 Secretive Wetland Birds
(Airdate: April 30, 2025) In this reprise airing, host Debaran Kelso delves into the amazing world of secretive wetland birds! Our guest is Cindy Easterson from the Puget Sound Bird Observatory. She is program manager for the Regional Wetland Secretive Bird Monitoring Project, and will share details on this grand new research effort in our region.
Silk
(Airdate: April 29, 2025) Now we’re actually just just six kilometers west of Jiayuguan at the fort for which the city was named. “Guan” means “pass,” and the fort was built to guard the Jiayuguan Pass. Aside from the Great Wall, the fort is the most impressive piece of construction along the Silk Road.
Chinese Immigrants
(Airdate: April 28, 2025 – Chinese Immigrants) Giant Fighting Kites
County Connections
(Airdate: April 25, 2025) Co-hosts Jim Burke and Commissioner Heather Dudley-Nollette welcome County Administrator Mark McCauley. They talk about the role of the County Administrator and the process right now to hire his successor after his retirement at the end of June, plus some ideas about what the CA does and Mark’s plans for his retirement.
Falling Down, Not Up!
(Airdate: April 24, 2025 – Falling Down, Not Up!)
Brewocracy Now ~ 4/24/25
KPTZ’s Taylor Clark welcomed Port Townsend Director of Communications and Marketing Shelly Leavens and Director of Public Works Steve King. We reviewed a bunch of projects that are wrapping up, in progress or planned for the near future, including the boatyard expansion along Sims Way and the chip seal planned for San Juan and F streets. And lots more.
#720 Seabird Conservation, part 2
(Airdate: April 23, 2025) Please join Nature Now host Debaran Kelso as we take up Part 2 of our conversation about seabird conservation with our guest Peter Harrison, this time joined by his wife Shirley Metz. Peter is a world-renowned seabird expert, artist, and conservationist, and his wife Shirley an avid adventurer and conservationist in her own right. This show highlights their remarkable joint conservation efforts.
Silk
(Airdate: April 22, 2025) We’re in the town of Jiayuguan., and we’re still fighting a bronchial infection we get every time we travel to China. The local hospitals turned out to be a farce, if not a nightmare, so we threw ourselves at the mercy of the local pharmacy. Jiayuguan began its place in Chinese history as early as the Han Dynasty as a.checkpoint along the Gansu Corridor.
