Category: Announcements
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New East Brunswick Hockey Arena Contracts Awarded
Groundbreaking for a new East Brunswick hockey arena will take place sometime in the fall of 2024, according to a report yesterday by Sarah Salvadore in the East Brunswick Patch. At an East Brunswick, NJ Township Council meeting on Monday, July 22, the council awarded two contracts totaling $29,485,000. One for constructing the 83,900 square…
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Note to Readers– RinkAtlas News Blog Was On Hiatus Due to Move
My family and I moved two weeks ago today from Newtown Borough to Northampton Township, Pennsylvania. Both of these municipalities are in Bucks County, on the eastern border of Pennsylvania. They are very close to each other. The logistics of moving were so onerous that it was impossible for me to keep writing the RinkAtlas…
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New Page for Arena Photos from Outside of North America
We’re pleased to announce a new page called Arena Photos from Outside of North America. This is where we will keep photos that contributors send us of arenas that don’t currently exist in the RinkAtlas arena directory. The first two photos on this page are from The SSE Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland. They were taken…
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Nearby Restaurants, Bars, Coffee Places, and Gas Stations are Back on RinkAtlas
I’m pleased to announce that we just restored the list of nearby restaurants, bars, coffee places, and gas stations to almost 4,700 arena information pages on RinkAtlas. This capability is one of the signature features of RinkAtlas, and something that we tweak constantly in order to provide the best possible information to our users across…
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RinkAtlas North American Arena Directory Completed
Mission accomplished! RinkAtlas now contains every arena in Canada to go along with our comprehensive directory of American rinks. The journey to this point began about one year ago. I want to thank my family who gave me the opportunity to focus, my friends who funded the RinkAtlas Kickstarter Project, the friends who shared arena…
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Ontario Arena Directory Completed!
We completed our arena directory for Ontario today! RinkAtlas.com now covers over 900 arenas and park rinks in Ontario, from Kenora in the west to Hawkesbury in the east. We also have over 1,000 arenas and park rinks listed in Quebec & the Maritimes. Next we’re building a complete directory of arenas in Manitoba.
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RinkAtlas Search Improved for Arenas in French-Speaking Areas of Canada
We’re pleased to announce that we’ve added information to the directory entries for arenas in the French-speaking areas of Canada to allow RinkAtlas users to search according to the city and arena names as they are typically spelled in either French or English. This means that arenas like “Aréna de Bernières Saint-Rédempteur” in Saint-Rédempteur, Québec can…
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RinkAtlas Directory Complete for New Brunswick
We completed the arena directory for New Brunswick today. There are 95 arenas in New Brunswick and 2 closed arenas that some websites still show as if they are open. RinkAtlas now has all of the indoor arenas in the Maritimes in its database. This includes every arena in Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. We’re…
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Why Did RinkAtlas Display Some Arena Names Twice with Minor Spelling or Wording Differences?
Some RinkAtlas users may notice that we list some arenas by multiple versions of their names. In some situations, there was sometimes little difference between the versions of the arenas’ names. An example is Réal-Boudreau Centre in Beresford, New Brunswick. We now list this arena as: Réal-Boudreau Centre The reason we did this was because the database underlying RinkAtlas is…
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RinkAtlas Directory Complete for Nova Scotia
We completed the arena directory for Nova Scotia today. There are 77 arenas in Nova Scotia and 3 closed arenas that some websites still show as if they are open. Our goal with RinkAtlas is to provide the most accurate directory of currently operating North American hockey arenas possible, so where it was necessary, we confirmed the…