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Skateboarders shred it up at Renner Brenner Park

A crowd of competitors and interested spectators hailing from across the Kansas City area packed into Renner Brenner Park this past weekend for Riverside’s first Rollin’ on the River skateboard competition.

The event was sponsored by the Riverside Police Athletic League, Parks and Recreation Department and Escapist Skateboarding, and was the first competition since the city created the skate park more than two years ago.

Lacrosse club gains steam

When Northland Lacrosse founder Brian Massey moved his family from Syracuse, N.Y., to Kansas City a year and a half ago, he was not looking for much. All he needed was a school where his son could play ice hockey and lacrosse.

When he realized he was going to have a tough time finding a lacrosse team for his son to play on, he created one ­— Northland Lacrosse. How he ended up turning away kids to play a sport most had never heard of is a wonder, but Massey has turned a popular East Coast sport into all the rage for 31 high school boys from Oak Park, Park Hill, Park Hill South and Platte County.

Park Hill South’s Lindsay gets top teacher award

Todd Lindsay has learned that all high school students understand science, but they just don’t know it.

Metro North Mall alliance dissolved

A business partnership formed to redevelop Metro North Mall has ended in what representatives are calling an amicable divorce.

MD Management of Mission, Kan., and Alberta Development Partners of Greenwood Village, Colo., both decided last week the time was right to dissolve their joint partnership over the Metro North Mall project, representatives from both companies said.