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Mom, and son with cerebral palsy, race together

Jose Martinez The Kitsap Sun

Last updated Thursday, August 30, 2012 - 7:23am

Vickie started running to get healthy. It wasn’t long before Terry was asking to join her.

OLLALLA, Wash. — When Vickie Hoefer sets off on her daily 3-mile neighborhood run, her son is keeping pace beside her.

For most, the run wouldn’t be much of a challenge.

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Pioneering female submariners say they are fitting in just fine

Ed Friedrich The Kitsap Sun

Last updated Thursday, June 21, 2012 - 1:29pm

BANGOR, Wash. — Since reporting to their boats in November, 25 women who broke one of the Navy’s final gender barriers have gone on patrol and been accepted among their crews.

Female submariners are fitting right in.

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

Josh Farley The Kitsap Sun

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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