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Scott Dixon

Would you want your kids playing, or would you yourself want to play, here?

Would you want your kids playing, or would you yourself want to play, here?

Brattleboro has a choice: it can site its skatepark near other healthy recreational activities, or it can tuck it away in a dangerous and unsuitable site whose only advantage is it's away from everything and everybody

It's seeming that the Elm Street parking lot is quickly becoming the favorite choice for the location of the Brattleboro skatepark. It's an odd turn of events, considering this location is not supported by BASIC - the committee that has been working on this issue for years - or the larger skateboarding community.

It's a little bit confusing because when the new Selectboard pulled the $50,000 designer rug out from under BASIC and roped everyone back to the starting line, it was to “ensure due public process and identify the most ideal location for a skatepark.”...

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The sky didn’t fall

Another skatepark conflict gave way to reconciliation once it was built, and a community%u2019s fears were unfounded

I have been skateboarding for 12 years. I grew up in a town in northeast Florida that had a mindset toward skateboarding that was similar to Brattleboro's: laws banning skateboarding on public property, no public skatepark, etc. When it was determined that a public skatepark would be built within...

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