BusinessWest, April 3rd, 2006
Perched at the top of a sloped wall, Kate Barker of Chicopee, 18, quietly surveys the expansive room at Junction, a skateboard park in Springfield. With little change in her serious expression, she pitches her body forward slightly, sneakered feet planted firmly on nothing more than a wooden board and four narrow wheels, and starts to fly.
Barker - a regular at Junction, took only about five seconds to move from one end of a room once used as a slot car track to the other, in the process zooming down a ramp about a story high and clearing a set of stairs. It's a regular occurrence at the skat...
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