Friends of Pembroke Skatepark

06/02/2024

PEMBROKE SKATEPARK COMMUNITY MEETING:

Anyone interested in the renewed effort to make Pembroke Skatepark a reality should attend this community meeting on Monday, June 3, 7 PM in the new Pembroke Community Center meeting room MP 102.

Join Pembroke native and professional skateboarder, Nora Vasconcellos who will be in attendance as part of the team reviving the effort to create the skatepark along with Lance Kennedy, Pembroke Community Services Director, and Tracey Marino, Pembroke Selectwoman.

All are welcome. Come join us as we kick things off!

12/12/2017

In what is expected to be one of the largest wakes ever held in Rhode Island is scheduled for Wednesday, December 13th at Rebello Funeral Home on Broadway in East Providence. A Mass of Christian …

08/20/2016

LIVE!

Check out Pembroke's own Nora Vasconcellos as she competes today at 8:30am EST! Go Nora!!!

http://www.vansparkseries.com/live

12/22/2015

VOTE for Pembroke's own, Nora Vasconcellos. And share with your friends to do the same. Do it!

http://skateboarding.transworld.net/photos/readers-choice-2015-best-female/ .97

12/08/2015

Listen to Peter Lynch; father, grandfather and legend in the financial world, as he speaks eloquently about skaters and skateparks - and why he and his family INVESTED their money and attached their name to the first true skatepark in Boston .

11/15/2015

Now our neck of the woods has a real skatepark open to all wheels!

Check out what a real skatepark looks like.

10/23/2015

https://www.facebook.com/fox25news/posts/10153414761068122

09/15/2015

Times are a changin'…

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/08/technology/for-online-sports-videos-the-action-is-no-longer-on-the-field.html

Young sports fans are increasingly drawn to a digital parallel world where videos of skateboarding, snowboarding, surfing and other “action sports” dominate.

08/06/2015

Go to Harvard this weekend!

http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/2015/08/05/longboard-fest-transforms-new-england-village/L1HuaAWuhvIsf4awE5ItBP/story.html?s_campaign=email_BG_TodaysHeadline&s_campaign=

On almost any day of the year, Harvard, Mass., is the archetypal New England village. But for three days in August, Harvard transforms into an adrenaline-infused mecca for alternative sports fans: the Central Mass. Longboard Festival.

07/28/2015

Check out Pembroke's own, Nora Vasconcellos skating in Van Doren Invitational Women's skateboard competition online at: http://www.vansusopenofsurfing.com/2015-skate/live

Tune in for the live webcast of the Van Doren Invitational live and direct from Huntington Beach