Latest news with #Bowditch
Boston Globe
08-05-2025
- Boston Globe
This Boston hotel has been named one of the 10 best in the country. (And it happens to be one of our favorites.)
Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up The hotel opened in 2016, and Advertisement My most recent stay was last winter, and I liked it even more. The hotel now has free snacks in guest rooms. That means I wasn't paying $8 for potato chips. The best way to describe the guest rooms at the Godfrey is well-tailored and crisp. They're midcentury preppy, if such a thing exists. It's like visiting a cultured uncle's pied-à-terre in Harvard Square. Advertisement Just off the main lobby of the Godfrey Hotel is an elegant marble staircase. Godfrey Hotel I suspect that TripAdvisor readers weren't thinking about the hotel's architecture when leaving their reviews (I couldn't find any mention of it when I skimmed through), but the Gothic Revival building that the Godfrey occupies was designed by famed architect Arthur Bowditch. It's actually two buildings, designed by Bowditch in 1904 and 1906, that were combined when Downtown Crossing fell upon hard times. As a result, the rooms at the Godfrey are all unique. While the Godfrey isn't prohibitively expensive, it is not basic. This hotel uses Frette sheets and has a 55-inch television in each room. I've scored rooms as low as $150 a night during the winter. This time of year, every room in the city is expensive, and the Godfrey is averaging $400 a night or more. I've slept around this city a lot — in hotels, of course — and I think the Godfrey is fairly priced. The TripAdvisor ranking is good news for the hotel, but I confess that it also made me feel good. Here was my validation that a hotel can be memorable without offering a custom-scented shampoo or obsessing over its Instagram account. Christopher Muther can be reached at
Yahoo
17-02-2025
- Yahoo
Arrest made after shots fired in Asheville
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WSPA) – An arrest has been made following a reported shooting Sunday night in Asheville. The Asheville Police Department arrested 32-year-old Marquis DeAngelo Bowditch for reportedly discharging a gun and damaging a residence. Officers responded after 8 p.m. in the Livingston Street area to reports of numerous gunshots. While investigating, police received a call from a victim indicating a bullet had hit the window of their residence on Erskine Street. At the scene, authorities found seven shell casings and the bullet hole. No injuries were reported according to police. Witnesses identified the suspected shooter as Bowditch. Law enforcement was also able to identify the suspect through surveillance video. Police located Bowditch near the scene exiting a community garden. He was taken into custody without incident and found to be in possession of drugs and a pistol magazine with two rounds according to officers. While searching the area, officers also found a backpack in the community garden containing ammunition and a handgun missing a magazine. Bowditch was charged with the following: Possession of firearm by felon Discharge into occupied dwelling Possession of firearm on educational property Discharge of firearm in city limits Damage to property Simple possession marijuana Open container He remains in the Buncombe County Detention Center under no bond. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Voice of America
12-02-2025
- Politics
- Voice of America
First US Navy ships sail through Taiwan Strait since Trump inauguration
Two U.S. Navy ships sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait this week in the first such mission since President Donald Trump took office last month, drawing an angry reaction from China, which said the mission increased security risks. The U.S. Navy, occasionally accompanied by ships from allied countries, transits the strait about once a month. China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory, says the strategic waterway belongs to it. China's military said the two U.S. ships, which it named as the destroyer Lyndon B. Johnson and the survey ship Bowditch, had passed through the strait between Monday and Wednesday, adding that Chinese forces had been dispatched to keep watch. "The U.S. action sends the wrong signals and increases security risks," the Eastern Theater Command of the People's Liberation Army said in a statement early Wednesday. The U.S. Navy confirmed the transit. The last publicly acknowledged U.S. Navy mission in the strait was in late November, when a P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft flew over the waterway. The last time a U.S. Navy ship was confirmed to have sailed through the strait was in October, a joint mission with a Canadian warship. China's military operates daily in the strait as part of what Taiwan's government views as part of Beijing's pressure campaign. Taiwan President Lai Ching-te rejects Beijing's sovereignty claims, saying only Taiwan's people can decide their future.
