This week our Northwest Bestsellers list includes only two northwest authors. Ivan Doig's The Eleventh Man and Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain are the only northwest-related books on the list this week. 

The sun shone briefly as Anacortes honored Veteran’s Day with a brief ceremony in Causland Park.

A resident of the 1200 block of I Avenue reported that his pit bull dog had bitten a 3-year-old child in the face and that he wanted the dog removed from his house.

The Anacortes real estate market continued to be battered by the economy last month. Home sales took a significant hit in October, according to statistics from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service. 

Farmers Market regulars braved the rainy, windy weather to buy local produce at Saturday's Holiday Market. A handful of Farmers Market vendors were outdoors, while many others set up inside the Depot Arts Center. 

Anacortes Port Commissioners have approved a $10.6 million budget for next year and set the property levy at $530,000. That levy will cost property owners 8.4 cents per $1,000 of assessed value or about $21.00 for a $250,000 home for the year.