First, he had ABC, then Nauset, then Maher, then Heritage, followed by Star, Carney, and now Lombard’s. Nicholas Shuster-Maloof has lived in Plymouth less than four years, but he’s already had seven companies pick up his trash, he said. Sometimes he switched for poor service — or he inherited a new hauler when his company […]
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State Road crash leaves teen dead, two others injured
An 18-year-old Plymouth man was killed and two others injured in a head-on crash on State Road Friday morning. The accident, on a notoriously dangerous stretch of road, took place just before 8:30 a.m., according to Plymouth police. When officers and firefighters arrived at the scene, at 129 State Road, they found a gray 2020 […]
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Homeless man infamous for threatening motorists is jailed
You may have seen him flipping off drivers at Colony Place, Market Basket, or other Plymouth shopping destinations. Jeremy Smith has become well-known in town — but not in a good way. When a driver earlier this month posted on the All Things Plymouth Facebook page that a man, believed to be Smith, shouted at […]
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Town seeks to toughen rules for electric bikes
Plymouth officials have unveiled a proposal to regulate the use of electric bikes on town roadways that includes age restrictions, mandatory helmets and registration with the town. But the draft measure, governing what they called “micro-mobility devices,” would not apply to the bikes Plymouth police have said are the most dangerous — electric ones without […]
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Customs agent charged with impersonating town manager blames ‘light sensitivity’
A condition called “light sensitivity” drove a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent to file a bizarre traffic complaint with the Plymouth police last year using the name of town manager Derek Brindisi, his lawyer says. In seeking to have identity fraud charges thrown out, Christopher Marden’s lawyer argued that his client’s “valid medical condition” […]
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Makepeace defends ‘distasteful’ posts about environmental activist
Environmental lawyer Meg Sheehan spent a lot of time and money trying to identify the person who created “Meg Costs Us Millions,” a Facebook page where she was ridiculed by anonymous critics. Unnamed posters called her “old crone” and “the second coming of Cruella De Vil.” They photoshopped her “attractive face to make her unattractive […]
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GATRA buses back on the road
Drivers for the Greater Attleboro-Taunton Regional Transit Authority were back on the job Wednesday after the union representing them reached a tentative agreement with GATRA. The two-day strike ended with a contract deal that the union said handed drivers and the other employees the pay they were looking for. But neither side would provide details […]
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GATRA bus drivers go on strike
Drivers for the Greater Attleboro-Taunton Regional Transit Authority walked off the job Monday, stranding thousands of riders, including many in Plymouth. Both sides in the ongoing labor dispute apologized to customers who rely on the GATRA bus service, which offers rides to residents all over town. “We want our transit team members at work as […]
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GATRA bus drivers are set to strike
Drivers for GATRA, the transit system that provides bus service to Plymouth residents, have voted to strike — saying their pay is so low that some of them are forced to live in their cars. Charles Ryan, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1548, on Tuesday said he’s sorry if a stoppage inconveniences riders, […]
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U.S. customs officer charged with posing as Plymouth’s town manager
It was an incident that might have been dismissed as a silly prank had the prankster not posed as a well-known local official. A man accused of filing a phony complaint with Plymouth police inexplicably claimed to be Town Manager Derek Brindisi. The story gets stranger. The alleged impostor turned out to be a federal […]