Author Archives: Ed Russell

To the Plymouth Independent article on the 1900 forest fire that ravaged thousands of acres of Plymouth, I can add two photos of the fire that were taken by Edward and Charlotte Emery, owners of one of the houses that was left standing after the fire. One hundred and twenty five years later, that same […]

This is in response to Fred Thys’s recent article “Who really cares about a town election?” A Bloomberg News article caught my attention. It covered survey results from newspapers representing 246 elections over two decades showing that cities with fewer reporters see fewer people running for office and fewer people voting. Other surveys show similar […]