With The Drew, downtown finally gets the hotel it needed
Why didn’t somebody do this sooner? That was my reaction last year when I heard about a boutique hotel planned for the heart of downtown. It’s no surprise the man behind it is Rick Vayo, a developer who has set about to reimagine Plymouth’s once drab business district. The town has two mid-range full-service hotels…
Eleanor Jean Dutton, 77, former choir director
Eleanor Jean (Salvucci) Dutton, the longtime music director at St. Bonaventure Parish in Manomet, died Sept. 13 in her husband’s arms after a 40-year battle with…
Select Board flaps continue despite conduct policy
Just a month after the Select Board passed its new conduct policy mandating civility on the dais, another episode of incivility erupted at this week’s meeting at West…
Embattled Pulte Homes condo project could be history
Faced with an uprising of outspoken neighbors, a deadline quickly slipping away, and talk of the land going back on the market, Pulte Homes may have abandoned its…
Rhonda Lehan, 70, retired school bus driver
Rhonda (Simpson) Lehan, who for 15 years was bus driver for First Student of Plymouth, died peacefully surrounded by her family on Sept. 13th at the McCarthy Care…
YOUR VIEW: Take restitution from Van Cott home
Following the Independent’s April 24, 2026 article about Patrick Van Cott’s brazen theft of thousands of dollars of food and equipment from the School Department over the course…
YOUR VIEW: Smaller house lots on November ballot
November 3rd’s Ballot Question 7 is not a housing slogan. It is a statewide rewrite of who controls a suburban lot. A yes vote would require cities and…