BREMERTON — Kitsap schools pore over the McCleary case. Central Kitsap schools are changing their menu. Sixth-graders are staying put this year.

Those are among the top stories in the Sept. 26 Central Kitsap Reporter, available now at newsstands and in stores.

The Sept. 26 Reporter 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 Reporter, 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 Reporter has been Central Kitsap and Silverdale’s local newspaper since 1985 and has a circulation of 16,556. 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 Reporter page by page online at www.centralkitsapreporter.com/green_editions. Get regular news updates on CentralKitsapReporter.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