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Skatepark in Crofton proceeds
Organizers of a planned community center and skateboard park in Crofton are pressing ahead with fundraising after receiving preliminary approval from the Anne Arundel County Council, which includes submitting detailed construction and operating plans and raising $2.5 million in each of the next three years to build the project. The County Council approved the plan, [...]
Cramped Hopewell Skatepark should be expanded
Hopewell skateboarders and supporters want to expand the city’s 10-year-old Skate Park. The Hopewell Skate Park, located next to the Community Center on City Point Road., is about 6,600 -square feet. The park has been a great success among skaters, many of whom are younger people. In fact, the park has been a victim of [...]
Students gather at skatepark to help Stop Hunger
More than 100 students from four area colleges combined their manpower to take a bite out of world hunger Saturday. Students from Lynchburg College, Randolph College, Central Virginia Community College and Sweet Briar College teamed up with Raleigh, N.C.-based Stop Hunger Now and Lynchburg-based Sacred River Productions at a benefit event at Amazement Square’s Rotary [...]
Young people may help design skateboard park in Marlboro
MARLBORO — Young people in Marlboro may one day have a place to practice their ollies and other skateboarding tricks as municipal officials have applied for a Tony Hawk Foundation Skatepark Grant. A group of about 40 youths have formed the MSP, which stands for Marlboro Skate Park, with the help of the Marlboro Recreation [...]
