Ramped Up

Sam Saalberg, 13, and other members of the Ann Arbor Skatepark Street Team attended Monday night's Ann Arbor City Council meeting to show their support for construction of a skate park at the city's Veterans Memorial Park. Saalberg is like a lot of teenagers in Ann Arbor: He loves skateboarding, but opportunities for practicing his craft locally are still in short supply. "Like downtown, they made it illegal to skate on the streets there or anywhere else, so there's really no safe, fun place to skate." Read the story.