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Mother of 8-year-old charged in elementary school shooting

Last updated Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - 4:01pm

BREMERTON, Wash. -- The mother of a 9-year-old son, and her boyfriend, are facing criminal charges in connection with her child's allegedly accidental shooting of an elementary school classmate.

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Fourth-graders Austin Curry (left) and Brook-Lynne Tarbox record their voices reading text about animals. They later listened to the recording to better understand which words they missed or mispronounced. (SHNS photo by Angela Dice / Special to the Kitsap Sun) (RS)

Classrooms increasingly turn to mobile devices

Angela Dice The Kitsap Sun

Last updated Monday, January 16, 2012 - 3:21pm

BREMERTON, Wash. -- A classroom full of fourth-graders scrambled to their seats as teacher Scott Wisenburg announced it was time for a reading lesson.

Some reached straight for iPods and others hurriedly wrote down predictions about the text they were soon to read.

Last year, he and two other teachers in fourth and first grades began using iPods, and this year the program -- called iLearn -- has expanded to 15 classrooms. "They're a great discipline tool," Wisenburg said of the devices, which he is using in his classroom at View Ridge Elementary School in Bremerton. But Wisenburg and other educators say that mobile devices like iPods and touch-screen tablets are much more than that.

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Educated women putting off childbirth creating 'delayer boom'

Chris Henry The Kitsap Sun

Last updated Monday, September 12, 2011 - 9:36pm

A report by the U.S. Census Bureau indicates women who have a college degree are likely to delay having children into their 30s, resulting in a "delayer boom."

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Tribe allows same-sex marriage

Steve Gardner The Kitsap Sun

Last updated Tuesday, August 2, 2011 - 1:51pm

SUQUAMISH, Wash. -- Should Native American Heather Purser decide to marry her female partner, she can do that in Suquamish now.

On Monday, the Suquamish Tribal Council formally changed its ordinances to extend marriage rights to same-sex couples.

The Suquamish ordinance means gay couples are afforded all the rights heterosexual couples are allowed on the reservation and other places in which gay marriages are allowed.

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