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KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro welcomed Jefferson County Commissioner (District 1 ) Heather Dudley-Nolllette and explored intergovernmental collaboration.

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(Airdate: May 7, 2025) Nan Evans talks with Port Townsend photographer Kerry Tremain about the beauty of his bird photography and the emotional connections we all have to birds once we open ourselves to honor that we humans co-evolved with birds.

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KPTZ’s Chris Bricker and Siobhan Canty, President & CEO of Jefferson Community Foundation, explore new paradigms and new developments from our County’s good people doing good work. In this episode, Chris and Siobhan visit the Far Reach Botanical Conservancy with founders Sue Milliken and Kelly Dodson, who possess a lifetime embodiment of plant knowledge and a long history of cultivating and conserving rare plants. On 6 acres in Port Townsend, the Conservancy acquires and conserves botanically significant wild and cultivated ornamental plants new to North America with special emphasis on those that are threatened or vulnerable to loss. 

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(Airdate: May 6, 2025) We’ve been visiting the Jiayuguan fort and the Great Wall west of town. In honor of its connection to the Wall as a monument to human effort, Jiauguan has built a museum in the shape of the Great Wall itself. Inside, we viewed reconstructions of different sections. Among the stories conspicuously missing was that of the man who built the wall in the first place.

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(Airdate: May 5, 2025) KPTZ’s Christine Walsh Rogers and Taylor Clark were joined by A.J. Hawkins and Jen Hauser from The Parlor here in Port Townsend (http://shopkalma.com) a space focusing on weaving community at the intersections of grief and joy. Listen in to hear more about the resources they offer, including the Memory Tree and the Community Grief Altar, and how the process of grief can help us with some of the very difficult things that happen in our lives.

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(Airdate: May 2, 2025) This week on County Connections County Commissioner Greg Brotherton and Phil Andrus highlight the work of the Center for Inclusive Entrepreneurship in the persons of staff members Micah Jonet and Devin Gonzalez.  On their home page, the Center introduces their organization with these words, “Our mission is to make business ownership possible for people with limited resources in marginalized rural communities. We envision rural places with resilient, self-reliant, and just local economies benefiting all life.”

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(Airdate: May 1, 2025 – The Existential Dilemma of the Lonely Radio Announcer)

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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!

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(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.

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(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.

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