Author Archives: Birgitta Kuehn

Maybe Mr. Pothier’s article, “A (dollar sign) of Plymouth’s Growth: More Banks” should read, “Heads Up Plymouth!” As a Planning Board member, seeing the number of banking chains applying for full-service brick-and-mortar permitting has been striking. I believe at a recent meeting I referred to Plymouth as Delaware II (only a bit of a stretch), […]

As an administrator in the highly regulated, highly intense, healthcare public service sector, one learns that labor (50 percent) and supplies (20 percent) across the industry stay consistently at roughly 70 percent of the budget. Ms. Estes writes in her latest article that the 2025 school budget is “a level-funded budget of $118,734,700 for fiscal […]

I couldn’t help but be impressed by Gena Corea’s perspective on immigrant versus pilgrim. As an immigrant myself, arriving on a boat with my family shortly after WWII, my father had the designation of Mischling Eins (half breed of the first degree) as a Jew under Hitler. We left behind our relatives in mass graves […]

On this quiet and pleasant Holiday weekend Sunday morning I read Bill Fornaciari’s (History & Architecture) piece in the Plymouth Independent. Captivating. Your engaging writing style brought the buildings to life in a manner that a quick drive by or even leisurely stroll has not. I was especially fond of the Gilded Age discussion. Having […]