BREMERTON — The M/V Cathlamet was not overcrowded Aug. 15. Seventh Street will be renamed Dr. M.L. King Way. School officials discuss the McCleary case and school funding.

Those are among the top stories in the Sept. 26 Bremerton Patriot, available now at newsstands and in stores.

The Sept. 26 Patriot is 56 pages in four sections. Included in this edition is Veterans Life, our monthly newspaper for Kitsap’s veterans and their families; and “Home is Where Life Happens,” our annual fall home guide. The Kitsap Week cover story is about Damsel in Defense, a line of fashionable self-defense tools.

Inside the Patriot, you’ll find local news, Community Briefs, Opinion, Everything Bremerton by Colleen Smidt, Letters to the Editor, Navy Wise by Sarah Smiley, Business, Legal Notices, Kitsap Week Life and Culture, Classifieds, Weekend Open Houses, Kitsap Calendar, Kitsap Week Crossword, The Book End, Kitsap Nightlife, Kitsap Week Sudoku, and Greater Kitsap Dining & Entertainment.

The Patriot has been Bremerton’s neighborhood newspaper since 1997 and has a circulation of 11,220. Kitsap Week is included in five Sound Publishing newspapers in Kitsap County and has a circulation of 65,000. For convenient home delivery of the Patriot, call 360-308-9161 or email circulation@soundpublishing.com.

You can read the Patriot page by page online at www.bremertonpatriot.com/green_editions. Get regular news updates on BremertonPatriot.com and on Facebook.

Regionwide news is available at your fingertips:
— BainbridgeReview.com
— BremertonPatriot.com
— CentralKitsapReporter.com
— KingstonCommunityNews.com
— NorthKitsapHerald.com
— PortOrchardIndependent.com
— KitsapVeteransLife.com