His mother knew something was wrong when she picked up her seven-year-old son from summer camp on the afternoon of August 11. He was afraid to say what was bothering him — he’d been warned “not to tell his mommy or daddy what happened,” Plymouth police reported. But the child eventually told his mother – […]
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Local chef uses hammer to fend off attacker inside his home
Imagine being jolted awake by someone screaming. At first you think it’s your roommate. Then you realize the voice is a stranger’s. That’s what happened at about 8 a.m. on August 15 when Mike Wisdom found an unhinged man inside his North Plymouth home. A vicious assault and struggle took place. After several minutes, […]
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Town claims victory in battle over Atlantic Country Club. For now.
The town has succeeded, at least for now, in blocking a large residential development on the site of the Atlantic Country Club in South Plymouth. Select Board chair Kevin Canty said Wednesday that he was told by the town’s lawyer that the club’s prospective buyer had withdrawn his offer to purchase the property. “We’re very […]
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Officials knew about pornographic cyberattacks long before recent breach
Members of the Plymouth school community were shocked last Monday night when a hacker interrupted a virtual school committee meeting by posting a full-screen, grainy picture of a man engaging in a sex act. Swastikas appeared in two corners. At the bottom of the screen were the words “HACKED BY CCP JAY.” A computer-generated […]
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300-unit 40b apartment complex OK’d, with a silver lining
The Plymouth Zoning Board of Appeals Monday night unanimously approved a slightly scaled-down version of the developer’s plans to build 300 apartments at Colony Place. Although the massive development faced opposition from neighbors, it puts the town in a position to reject future so-called 40b affordable housing projects, at least temporarily. AvalonBay Communities, one of […]
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Hacker disrupts school board Zoom meeting with pornographic image, swastikas
A Plymouth School Committee meeting being held on Zoom was cut short Monday night after a hacker took over the screen, replacing it with a grainy picture of a man engaged in a sex act, according to screenshots shared with the Independent. Swastikas could be seen on two corners of the screen, and at the […]
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Suspect with lengthy criminal record accused of Harborwalk thefts
Even before she pleaded guilty last year to pandemic relief fraud, Katherine Quigley had been charged more than 100 times for similar crimes, such as larceny and identity theft, according to police reports. In June 2024, the 45-year-old Plymouth woman admitted stealing, or conspiring to steal, $51,735 in Covid-related unemployment checks, hatching the plan with […]
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Police say ebike complaints are down sharply
Plymouth police say they received a flurry of complaints about ebikes after the Independent reported in June that teenagers were illegally riding the electric vehicles all over town, terrifying pedestrians, endangering themselves, and harassing motorists. On May 30, two teens — one 14, the other 15 — got into a head-on crash along the Plymouth […]
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Proposed apartment complex skirts height limits
Apartment buildings in Plymouth generally must be no taller than 35 feet. But AvalonBay’s proposed Colony Place project is different — it falls under the state’s 40b affordable housing law, making it exempt from most zoning rules. As a result, the residential complex may end up being almost twice as tall, dwarfing other buildings in […]
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Serial thief pleads guilty to multiple charges
Sunny McDonough, the serial thief who swiped packages from mailrooms in Plymouth and more than a dozen other Massachusetts communities, pled guilty Wednesday to multiple felonies. She was sentenced in Plymouth District Court to six months in jail, a term that will start after she wraps up a 15-month sentence for a probation violation in […]