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A bar entertainment businessman is taking aim at a new adventure, bringing combat archery, or “dodge bow,” games to Windsor.
Robert Goldberg, owner of Hartford-based Bar Rated Entertainment, started the subsidiary Arrow Dodge, and was granted a special town permit to conduct outdoor games at Fastpitch Nation on Day Hill Road in Windsor this summer.
Arrow Dodge is a combination of three sports – dodgeball, paintball and archery – where participants form teams and shoot at opponents with large foam-tip arrows using a bow. ....
A Groton-based developer whose plans to build an approximately $14 million extended-stay hotel on Windsor’s Day Hill Road were delayed by the emergence of COVID-19 says he’s moving forward with the project, hoping the hospitality market will begin to rebound by the time construction is complete. ”We are moving forward with the project,” Jignesh “Jimmy” Patel said Tuesday. “We put it on hold for a little bit with everything going on. We didn’t know how things would play out.” The pandemic decimated the U.S. hotel sector more than most, with the American Housing and Lodging Association (AHLA) calling 2020 “the most devastating year on record in 2020, resulting in historically low occupancy, massive job loss, and hotel closures across the country.” ....
GSB helps Turners Falls softball program with new backstop project Turners Falls Athletic Director Adam Graves, left, stands with Greenfield Savings Bank President John Howland, center, and Turners Falls softball coach Gary Mullins after Graves and Mullins presented a plaque to Howland in recognition of his organization’s donation to support a new backstop for the Turners Falls softball project. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Modified: 12/15/2020 9:02:43 PM If you have attended a softball game at Turners Falls High School and went to use the restroom behind home plate, you probably remember having to have your head on a swivel at all times, commonly hearing a roaring “heads up!” as the dangers of a foul ball coming for your head happened far too often. ....
GSB helps Turners Falls softball program with new backstop project Turners Falls Athletic Director Adam Graves, left, stands with Greenfield Savings Bank President John Howland, center, and Turners Falls softball coach Gary Mullins after Graves and Mullins presented a plaque to Howland in recognition of his organization’s donation to support a new backstop for the Turners Falls softball project. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Published: 12/15/2020 6:00:13 PM If you have attended a softball game at Turners Falls High School and went to use the restroom behind home plate, you probably remember having to have your head on a swivel at all times, commonly hearing a roaring “heads up!” as the dangers of a foul ball coming for your head happened far too often. ....