Southern Baptists Convention news: Leadership and racial unification tuscaloosanews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tuscaloosanews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
“This is truly one of a kind within the Hilton global network,” said Charlie York, general manager of Hampton Inn by Hilton and Homewood Suites by Hilton Boston Seaport, during the ribbon cutting ceremony.
Guests of the dual-branded property have “one seamless guest experience at arrival,” he said, and then choose between the Hampton Inn or Homewood Suites. The rooms and suites offer water and city views and the suites feature fully-equipped kitchens and seating areas, for “a true home-away-from-home feeling,” according to the company. Advertisement
The hotel turned to local artist Chris Williams, of Essex, for an 18-foot anchor statue made of solid cast glass called “Arrival,” which, it noted, “sets us apart and serves as a beacon that welcomes in our travelers from both land and sea.”
Beloved by its owners, the Beetle Cat has been bringing sailors together for 100 years
Were you to encounter him in person, Bill Womack likely wouldn’t strike you as a structural engineer with a lifetime of high-profile tunnel, bridge and road projects under his belt. He has a snow-white, Imperial-style beard and a friendly, softly weathered face. He wears a baseball cap, flannel shirt, wool sweater and wire-rimmed glasses. He looks like anyone you might find poking around docks and boatyards just about anywhere in New England.
Perhaps the look is fitting, considering that most of Womack’s work these days centers around sails, sawdust, varnish and the sweet smell of sawn lumber. He’s the owner of the Beetle Cat Boat Shop in Wareham, Massachusetts, the current iteration of a company that, since 1921, has been building the stately but simple Beetle Cat. It’s a 12-foot, wooden, gaff-rigged sailing dinghy that Womack fell in love with near Onset, Massachusetts, during summe
A LORAWAN aerial mounted within a farm steading FARM SENSOR technology is the focus of the latest digital farm pilot project from SmartRural. A subsidiary of co-op umbrella organisation, SAOS, the SmartRural project aims to demonstrate how readily available, cost-effective, digital tools can gather and use data from around even the most remote farms, to inform decision making, manage risk, and improve operations and outcomes. Its proprietary LoRaWAN network is a radio communication system which receives data from simple, battery-powered sensors up to 15km away, through a base station installed on a farm building. The data is then fed back through the internet to where it can be used by software to help farmers make more informed decisions in a wide variety of ways.