| Fire guts local mini-golf business | | Posted Saturday, February 10, 2007 12:59:03 PM by Blog57 Team | | DEDHAM - One firefighter went to the hospital with minor injuries yesterday as the office and snack bar for a popular Rte. 109 driving range and miniature golf course was gutted by fire yesterday, said Deputy Fire Chief Don Beltis. The fire, which tore through the roof of the office of McGolf Driving Range and miniature golf and left the building a shambles, is under investigation, Beltis said. Firefighters have yet to determine the cause of the blaze, he said. An unnamed caller reported the fire by cell phone to the Dedham department at around 5 a.m., Beltis said. Firefighters arrived at McGolf Cafe and Creamery at 150 Bridge St. to find a one-story building engulfed in flames. Beltis said Quincy, Norwood, Boston and Westwood fire departments helped local firefighters put the flames out in about 45 minutes.... | |
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| | | Chamber honors East Lake library | | Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 2:59:41 PM by Blog57 Team | | The East Lake County Public Library in Sorrento was awarded the Civic Member of the Year award from the East Lake County Chamber of Commerce during a recent banquet at the Red Tail Golf Club. Harris Mini Storage received the Business of the Year award and Tommy Hight was given the individual member award. .... | |
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| | | Mini golf at Arnolds Park | | Posted Thursday, December 28, 2006 1:10:38 PM by Blog57 Team | | ARNOLDS PARK, Iowa -- A deal expected to be closed in January may change the gateway appearance of Arnolds Park Amusement Park.The board of directors of Historic Arnolds Park, Inc. (HAPI) announced Wednesday a brokerage agreement with Pirate's Cove Adventure Golf that would transform the current mini-golf course at the park's southwest entrance into a showcase attraction.The HAPI board expects the contract to be finalized in January.Rick Johnson, chair of HAPI's facilities committee, said the park is in possession of a letter of intent from Pirate's Cove -- which operates mini-golf courses all over the country -- to overhaul the attraction and have it operational by the July 4 weekend next summer. Read Comments > Current Rating > Not yet rated.... | |
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| | | Brewington finds his balance | | Posted Wednesday, December 27, 2006 2:58:14 PM by Blog57 Team | | Tyler Brewington's story begins in late August with all the potential for tragedy. A young, charismatic college athlete running on fumes ? he awoke early that morning, as usual, to play golf ? falls asleep at the wheel on a late-night ride home from a friend's and crashes into a telephone pole. The car is split in half. Also fractured is the sixth vertebrae in Brewington's neck. Brewington, a 21-year-old junior at Division I Rider University in Lawrenceville, N.J., got lucky. He spent a little less than a month in a neck brace and, after petitioning the school's medical staff harder than a well-paid Washington lobbyist, was cleared to play the last three tournaments on Rider's fall schedule. "I probably should have been in the brace longer, but I just could not not play golf this fall," Brewington says.... | |
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| | | 'If I had a fortune I'd love to buy a dark green Mini' | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 11:00:25 PM by Blog57 Team | | SINCE taking over the driving seat of Europe?s largest economy, Angela Merkel has been criticised for steering Germany into trouble in the Middle East, slamming on the brakes by raising taxes and falling asleep at the wheel of government. Now an explanation is at hand. The German Chancellor has admitted to having bribed her instructor to pass her driving test in what was then communist East Germany. ?After 38 lessons I was still no closer to taking my driving test,? she ruefully told a celebrity audience at the Golden Steering Wheel annual awards. .... | |
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| | | Mini-golf should be hole-in-one | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 1:17:10 PM by Blog57 Team | | It boggles the mind that some residents and businesses would so vehemently oppose a miniature golf course in Bethany Beach, but that is exactly the situation. Monday, the Bethany Beach Board of Adjustment unanimously approved Carol E. Schultze's plans to build a pirate-themed course at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Central Boulevard in town. The group even threw in a handful of stipulations designed to appease folks that have concerns about noise, lights and flying golf balls. Opponents, though, have hired a lawyer arguing that the board has no right to decide whether the course should be allowed or not. Legally, that could be true, but it seems merely a diversion to hold up approval, perhaps in hopes that the developer will change her mind. We understand the commotion when developers want to build a 1,000-plus home development with a golf course on environmentally-sensitive land, but who knew that a miniature golf course would be such a big deal? Especially when it is being built on land that is already zoned commercial.... | |
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| | | Let the video wars begin | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 11:12:10 PM by Blog57 Team | | Associated Press November 11, 2006 Print Email Associated Press After years of hype and speculation, the latest round of video game console wars is finally about to begin. Unlike past battles waged since the 1970s, consumers this time around will have some truly distinct options among three contenders, as each device is tuned to different tastes and budgets. The sleek PlayStation 3 by Sony Corp. is the priciest system, crammed with the very latest in cutting-edge technology. The Xbox 360 from Microsoft Corp., meanwhile, has had a yearlong head start to build a fan base. By touting intuitive controls over fancy graphics, Nintendo Co. has billed its Wii as a simpler, cheaper alternative to Microsoft's and Sony's offerings.... | |
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| | | Draper learning to step up | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 3:09:50 AM by Blog57 Team | | IN his own words, Scott Draper has been in golf five minutes. And just in case you're wondering, things are going just fine thank you. Draper, the former tennis professional who turned to golf at the start of last year, is about to embark on his second tilt at the Australian summer armed with an improved game having worked with his new mentor, Victorian Institute of Sport head coach Denis McDade. Draper and McDade, among other things, have been working on "building a library". While most players on the PGA Tour of Australasia have been involved in the game on a full-time basis for years, Draper is a relative newcomer. The former Davis Cup player who reached the fourth round of the French Open in 1995 and19'96, still finds himself in foreign situations, called upon to play shots he has not encountered before.... | |
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| | | I-Bowl names Crews Sportsman of the Year | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:58:36 PM by Blog57 Team | | PetroSun Independence Bowl officials announced today that Albert Crews has been named the PetroSun Independence Bowls 2006 Sportsman of the Year. Crews, 54, is a resident of Homer, and recently appeared on the Golf Channels reality television show, The Big Break VI which is a show that matched nine men and nine women against one another in a variety of challenges that test their skills and mental toughness for the right to compete in two Champions Tour and two LPGA Tour events, respectively. Crews, who was eliminated from the show on Oct. 31 after a successful run over the past few months, was one of the most unique stories in the shows history. Crews plays golf cross-handed, meaning his right hand is positioned on top of the left hand when he grips a club, and also taught himself to play the game.... | |
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| | | Alan Shipnuck: PGA commish is nothing of not optimistic | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 11:00:53 PM by Blog57 Team | | The most exciting thing in golf is not Tiger Woods going for a par-5 in two. It's not Sonya Toms arriving at the course in a mini-skirt. No, for pure thrills and chills, nothing beats a Tim Finchem news conference. During his unlikely journey to becoming commissioner of the PGA Tour, Finchem has been a championship debater, a practicing lawyer and a Beltway flak. He is a triple-threat in spin, and his news conferences are high-wire acts of obfuscation, nerve-jangling linguistic performances punctuated by 50-cent words and the smoothest bedside manner this side of Dr. Kevorkian. On Wednesday the Commish held his annual state-of-the-Tour press conference, and it should come as no surprise that, according to Finchem, everything is rosy. But his relentless optimism can't obscure what has been a very tough year for golf's second-most powerful man.... | |
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