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(Airdate: October 28, 2025) Maryanne interviews Steve King, Port Townsend’s Public Works Director. Steve’s been grappling with our complex issues since he joined the city five years ago. An early accomplishment was getting the mill to pay for water usage, just like any other customer. Some of the pipes for our water system are over 100 years old. Steve’s team is racing the clock – trying to replace those pipes before they collapse. That’s just one issue facing the town. The lack of affordable housing and the sorry state of our streets are also major issues. Voters overwhelmingly passed a measure to raise taxes to help pay for street repairs. Results aren’t in yet but that money only began to flow in 2024. The lack of workforce housing  – aka affordable housing  – is also on everyone’s radar.

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(Airdate: October 28, 2025) We’re in Xinjiang, China’s so-called Uyghurs Autonomous Province. The Uyghurs are the largest ethnic group in the province, with 45 percent of the population, and the Han Chinese are close behind with 40 percent. Still, 99 percent of the power is in the hands of the Chinese….

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(Airdate: October 27, 2025) Nigel O’Shea from the Jefferson County Beacon was joined by reporter Scott France, photographer Heather Johnson, and editor Nhatt Nichols to talk about the Beacon‘s article on Food Insecurity in Jefferson County, which is especially important in light of the government shutdown and the impact on SNAP benefits which are going to lapse.

The Beacon’s article on this is located here.

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This week, In a special Fund Drive edition of County Connections, Jim Burke and co-host Commissioner Heidi Eisenhour welcome Jefferson County Department of Public Works Director/County Engineer Al Cairns and Tracy Grisman, Chair and District #1 Citizen Representative on SWAC (Solid Waste Advisory Commitee). They discuss solid waste, recycling, the upcoming plans for county-wide solid waste curbside service, and the relocation of the Transfer station.
Also. on Monday, October 27 at the Transfer Station from 5-7 pm is the unveiling of artwork developed through the A.I.R.E. program (Artist In Residency and Education) which brings focus to recycling and uses actual trash for the assemblage.

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KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro were joined by Jefferson County PUD General Manager Joe Wilson.

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(Reprise airdate: October 22, 2025) Nature Now host Nan Evans talks with University of Washington marine biologist and research, Dr. Jason Hodin about the mysteries of the endangered Sunflower Sea Star. If we can understand these intricacies, perhaps humans can help restore the endangered Sunflower Sea Star population in the Salish Sea by learning how to raise and take care of baby sea stars.

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(Airdate: October 21, 2025) We’re in Xinjiang Province, and we’ve just arrived In the town of Hami. Up to now we’ve seen people in every Silk Road Town wearing skull caps of various colors. Usually they’re white, and occasionally black or dark green. Such caps are part of the Muslims’ traditional dress. In Hami, the amount of people wearing such caps approaches the number of uncapped. That is because we’ve entered a region where until recently the Chinese have been in a minority….

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(Airdate: October 20, 2025) Attention Please! welcomes Key City Public Theatre’s Executive Artistic Director Denise Winter and the cast of Key City’s production of Misery, currently showing at the theatre. Hosted by Phil Andrus.

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(Airdate: October 17, 2025) Jim Burke and Commissioner Heather Dudley-Nollette are joined by Karen Affeld, Director of the North Olympic Development Council. They discuss what the Council does for Jefferson AND Clallam County business development and preservation of the environment (the built and the natural environment.) The area has a high number of unemployed among 25-54 year-olds and qualified for a non-compete grant from the federal government to spur job growth.
You can find out more and offer support to the N.O.D.C. by going to their website: https://www.noprcd.org/

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KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro welcomed Port Townsend Mayor David Faber, as we reflected on his past four years as mayor, as his term ends at the close of the year.

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