His company, Sparx Hockey, Inc., makes the Sparx Skate Sharpener, a portable machine that can sharpen hockey or figure skates in two and a half minutes. The Acton company’s product is used by National ...

WOONSOCKET – Twenty minutes before game time, in a crowded ice rink locker room, the Mount St. Charles Academy hockey player discovered one of his skate blades badly dulled. He reached for his ...

Ask anyone who's sharpened skates professionally, and they will tell you that it's an art form. I worked in a hockey store for most of my teenage years, and even after all that time, I was constantly ...

Russ Layton was at a loss. The CEO of Acton-based Sparx Hockey, which makes portable skate sharpening machines, was running a non-essential business in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. He furloughed ...

ST. PAUL -- Arthur Peterson, who invented the E-Z Sharp skate sharpening machine used by professional and college teams, municipal arenas and sporting goods stores internationally, has died. Peterson ...

Sharpening skates hasn’t changed much since the first hockey players took to Canada’s frozen lakes and rivers in the 19th century. Running a stone or wheel along the surface of the blade grinds the ...

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Pond-skating season started early this year, say enthusiasts, with the first brave souls taking advantage of mid-December’s cold temperatures to glide across perfectly smooth black ice at Black Joe’s.

When the owners of Velofix, a mobile bike repair service, bought a skate sharpening machine last year, they thought it might be a good way to keep busy in the winter. Then the pandemic came along. , a ...