Town leaders looking for ways to block a proposed North Plymouth condominium project are urging the sellers of the land on which it would be built to back out of the deal and work with them to come up with an alternate plan. Developer Pulte Homes’ proposed 163-unit project — which comes before the town’s […]
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Former college police officer held on domestic violence charges
A former college police officer is behind bars after he allegedly battered the woman he was living with by pointing a gun at her head and causing multiple bruises on her face and limbs, according to Plymouth police. Robert Coppage, 60, of Plymouth, was working as a campus security officer at Massasoit Community College in […]
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‘I will carry this sorrow every day for the rest of my life’
It was a bittersweet end to a marathon court case that would decide if a Dorchester man was responsible for the overdose death of a 23-year-old woman at a Plymouth sober house. The defendant, William McNeill, 39, pleaded guilty this week in Plymouth Superior Court to manslaughter and drug distribution charges — almost seven years […]
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Do you know when your trash will be picked up?
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 […]