By Kaitlyn Naples Staff Writer After about a year-and-a-half since Jitters Café burned down, Shirley Bloethe, the owner, has a new venture that echoes what she did at Jitters, and then some. As of a few weeks ago, Bloethe took over the former RockWell’s Dance Hall and turned it into “The Loop.” She isn’t changing the nature of the old RockWell’s, just building upon it. “It was the kind of thing that just came at the right time in my life,” said Bloethe, whose Jitters Cafe/Sunflower Bungalow on the Southington/ Plainville border, burned down on Sept. 26. Jitters Café, also known as The Sunflower Bungalow, was a space that provided music, food, culture, spa treatments, and much more. Bloethe had owned the building for 22 years. Since the cafe, Pass-It-Sn store building was destroyed, Bloethe has been hosting holistic fairs at RockWell’s and has been trying to continue to provide what she used to provide to the community, remotely. Then, the owner of RockWell’s, Meghan Mitchell, decided she wanted to focus more on her holistic therapy business. She subsequently sold it to her friend, Bloethe. Since she took over the space, Bloethe has been changing the décor of the area [...]
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