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 one of the few people in his blue-collar neighborhood to make it to college–and by most measures, his career in mechanical engineering was a success. But he couldn’t shake the feeling ...

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 cell ...

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 ...

WOONSOCKET, R.I. (WPRI) — Sometimes it just feels good to take a step back in time. That’s why Joe Lemay has continued his late father’s legacy of sharpening ice skates out of his basement. Lemay’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 ...