With skateboarding ban looming, Lancaster store closes
Buffalo News
options. With the Lancaster Village Board considering a ban on skateboarding on village sidewalks, the owner of a skateboard shop in downtown Lancaster is closing his business. Dan Prichard will shut down his Sirens Skateshop as soon as he sells out of …

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EMB's James Kelch
ESPN (blog)
The mayor of Embarcadero, James Kelch, has a guest board out on Real Skateboards, the company that turned him pro two decades ago. The Ohio native who was a fixture at San Francisco's most iconic spot (EMB) during its heyday, was known for keeping …

Student killed while skateboarding to school
Victorville Daily Press
BALDY MESA • A sophomore at Encore High School was hit by a car and killed while skateboarding to class along Baldy Mesa Road early Thursday morning, according to California Highway Patrol officials. Jarod Maxwell, 14, was stuck by a driver in a 2010 …
Oak Hills skateboarder killed on way to schoolSan Bernardino Sun

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Friends mourn four young skateboarders killed in Afghan suicide blast
Washington Post
KABUL — It could be any skateboarding park in the United States: Kids whiz off ramps into midair, shoot up and down half-pipes and spill frequently onto the floor after failed maneuvers. What makes this one unique — and tragically Afghan — is the …

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'Hello Skater Girl' by Julian Bleecker
ESPN
With the noticeable demise of womens skateboard and surf magazines over the past few years, photographer Julian Bleecker has picked up the torch by self-publishing his photography book "Hello Skater Girl." At over 100 pages, the book features some of …

Banning skateboarding on sidewalks could be possible solution for Village of …
Metrowny.com
An issue that seems to have divided the village and created quite an uproar between the village board, business owners, and youths who bike and skateboard in the district. A possible solution proposed at the meeting was to ban skateboarding on sidewalks.

Skateboarders among victims of Afghanistan bombing
Los Angeles Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — When 14-year-old Khorshid took to her skateboard, her face would light up with an enormous smile. For an Afghan girl whose short life had been filled with hardships, the swooping and whooshing and rocketing speed were an …
Kabul's fallen skateboard fanaticsBBC News
Mourning four of Afghanistan's skateboarding kidsForeign Policy (blog)
The skateboarding sisters of Kabul ripped apart by a suicide bomber: Tragedy …Daily Mail
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Buzzfeed's Jonah Peretti Is The Stephen Hawking Of Radical Skateboarding Birds
Fast Company
But BuzzFeed–best-known for photo-heavy listicles such as “11 Totally Radical Birds On Skateboards”–has hired a team of four data scientists to find the gray ones. It's built a proprietary data analytics platform that turns the site into one giant …

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Snowboard pioneer Tom Sims dies
ESPN
Sims ran a skateshop and founded Sims Skateboards in Santa Barbara in 1976 and won the Skateboard World Championships that same year. He was featured, alongside Stacy Peralta, in the 1976 skate film "Freewheelin.' " Christian Hosoi and the late Jeff …
RIP Tom Sims: inventor of the snowboard was also skateboarding pioneerNBCSports.com
Photo Gallery: Snowboarding Pioneer Tom Sims Dies Of Heart AttackTransworld Business
Snowboarding Pioneer Tom Sims Passes AwaySnowboarder Magazine (blog)
Transworld Skateboarding -Transworld Snowboarding
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Ely Phillips: Through the lens
ESPN (blog)
In the process he has earned the admiration of skateboarding industry luminaries like Jim Greco, Keith Hufnagel and Tony Larson, as well as being published in Thrasher and Skateboarder magazines. "For a young photographer Ely possesses a mature eye …