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- New Durham Skate Park Ramps Us
- Contamination in a Durham Creek
- ICYMI: Raleigh Revisits Noise Rules—Again
- The Ripple Effects of EPA Cuts in RTP
- Caribbean Carnival in Raleigh This Weekend
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In May, INDY’s Justin Laidlaw reported that the City of Durham would donate leftover skate park materials that the city acquired when it purchased Wheels in 2020 to the Scrap Exchange.
Now, work is getting underway on a new skate park using those materials. Justin captured the scene this Saturday as dedicated volunteers disassembled a mini ramp near Wheels and brought it to its new home in the parking lot of the Lakewood Shopping Center.
“It’s going to be the first public mini ramp in Durham and in the Triangle ever, so that’s going to be awesome. We might set it up in that garden area temporarily so it’ll be more featured,” Mike Johnston, the owner of Manifest Skate Shop, told Justin, referencing the parklet next to El Futuro.
The new park will complement Durham’s existing public skatepark at Central Park. The street style layout at the downtown skate park, with its mix of grind rails, ramps, stairs, and ledges, all bunched into tight quarters, tends to attract more skateboarders. Lakewood DIY, volunteers say, will offer a varied style of skating that’s more inviting to quad and inline skaters.
Read more below about next steps for the new Lakewood skate park.
—Sarah W.
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DURHAM COUNTY
Toxic Relationship
Residents of Durham’s McDougald Terrace are chronically exposed to pollution, including contamination from nearby chemical distribution company Brenntag that has recently turned a creek in the neighborhood black, Inside Climate News reports.
WAKE COUNTY
Turn Down for What
Raleigh has struggled with regulating noise since you could buy coffee for a dollar at the Morning Times. City officials are again considering changes to the “turn down the noise” rules, INDY’s Jane Porter reports.
STATE
Ripple Effects
Advocates warn that the Trump administration’s efforts to roll back the EPA’s work, including shuttering its RTP office, could lead to 200,000 premature across the U.S., North Carolina Health News Reports.
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WAKE COUNTY: The Raleigh Planning Commission approved a controversial rezoning Tuesday that would allow for high rises in the neighborhood around Peace and West streets in Raleigh, ABC 11 reports. (Read INDY’s previous reporting on neighborhood opposition to the project).
DURHAM COUNTY: While some think of Montessori schools as private schools for affluent families, Durham’s growing network of public Montessori schools shows otherwise, Carolina Public Press reports.
NORTH CAROLINA: Archeology students discovered timber on the North Carolina coast that may be from a Spanish ship destroyed nearly 300 years ago, Smithsonian Magazine reports.
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