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Washington State Ferries is proposing increases of 2.5 percent for vehicles and 1 percent for passengers this year and next.

A pickup hits a guy wire before rolling into a ditch Saturday night near the Seabeck Port Office.

The addition of an Irish public house on 15th Street is building excitement for a growing corner of the city.

The thrift store, celebrating its 25th year in Port Orchard, has purchased land on Bethel Avenue and will build there. Car dealer Bruce Titus has purchased the shopping center in which St. Vincent now is located.

Kitsap's Pride festival has gone from a small, private cookout for the LGTBQ community to a public festival for queers and allies during its 19 years. Saturday marked more than a decade of Kitsap Pride as a public event at Evergreen Rotary Park in Bremerton.

Richard Huddy and Roy Runyon are vying to represent District 6, while a third candidate — Runyon's own wife — has been largely missing from the campaign trail.

In 1940 (75 years ago)

The fifth Bremerton Summer BrewFest came to town Saturday, along with soaring temperatures.

Before Town & Country Market moved into Winslow, before endless rows of businesses lined Winslow Way, the island's Christian Science members opened a small reading room downtown in 1956. The 350-square-foot building closed earlier this year for renovations and is expected to reopen around the beginning of September.

City Council likely will approve plans to ask voters for a 20-year $15 million bond to pay for a joint police and court facility next to City Hall on Madison Avenue.