
Local News for 8/07/25


(Airdate: July 17, 2025 – Dancing on the Ceiling of My Life)

(Airdate: August 6, 2025) Please join host Debaran Kelso and field recorder Meg Amos for Part 2 of our show learning more about the owls of Bainbridge Island! Owl expert Jamie Acker has invited us to his backyard wildlife sanctuary on Bainbridge Island, where he has been studying owls for the past 25 years. Part 2 of a two part program.

(Airdate: June 30, 2025 – Port Ludlow)
(Airdate: June 23, 2025) Marrowstone Turkeys.
(Airdate: June 16, 2025) Grab Bag.
(Airdate: June 9, 2025) Farmhouse Restaurant

Every month, KPTZ’s Chris Bricker, and Co-Host Siobhan Canty, President & CEO of Jefferson Community Foundation, explore new paradigms and developments surrounding our County’s good people doing good work. Jefferson Community Foundation celebrates its 20th year this month! Chris & Siobhan welcome special guests Kate Roosevelt, Chair of JCF’s Board and Co-President of Campbell & Company; Claudia Coppola, Executive Director of Olympic Neighbors and recipient of JCF nonprofit services and grants; and Doug Van Allen, Retired Senior Financial Advisor and former JCF Board Treasurer who now has a Donor Advised Fund at JCF. They.discuss what the Foundation does and how it does it, as we celebrate JCF’s significant impacts over the years.
(Airdate: August 5, 2025) We’re in the Oasis of Dunhuang, and we’ve been visiting the Mogao Caves, 25 kilometers to the southeast. The caves are located along a sandstone cliff at the eastern end of the Mingsha Sand Dunes. The dunes themselves are 40 kilometers long and 20 kilometers deep. Mingsha means “singing sand” and there’s a legend behind the name….