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Skateboarding set to enter 2020 Tokyo Olympics

By Tessa Flynn, Reporter ♦ Mar 4, 2020

Skateboarding, along with baseball, softball, surfing, sport climbing, and karate, is set to be added to this summer's Olympic Games in Tokyo.

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Street shot or sum

By Luke Osborn ♦ Sep 10, 2019

Photos by junior Luke Osborn of the Mill Valley skate park and the culture it has fostered.

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Ramping Up: Tam students spur skate park renovation

By Skye Schoenhoeft, Editor in Chief ♦ Mar 17, 2019

The newly renovated skate park adjacent to Mill Valley Middle School opened for use on Monday, February 25. The campaign to build the new park was driven by Tam freshmen Jacob Moore and Cristian Piombo...

Overland Boards Brings Innovation to Skateboards

By Joe Russell ♦ Feb 11, 2014

When senior Albert Streitmann was in second grade, he received his first skateboard. It wasn’t until his junior year, when he joined his good friend Spencer “Spence” Peterson in running a longboard...

Don’t just chuck it, wear a brain bucket

By Max Shulman ♦ May 31, 2012

Contrary to a belief specific to 16-18 year old boys that we are invincible, I have found through both personal experience and the obseervation of others that this is not true. Take the helmet equation....