Author Archives: Joe Hutchinson

As someone who knows Bill Keohan, the recent report regarding a paddleboarding dispute at Plymouth Beach was, on its face, preposterous. At first, I thought it must be a reporter working for a laugh…town humor, Unfortunately, I talked to a few folks who treated the article as serious reporting. And treating unverified accusations as hard […]

The work of the Select Board is leadership. Over the next decade and beyond, Plymouth faces fiscal, safety, climate, housing, transportation, and cultural challenges, among others, The recent Select Board reorganization demonstrated many things, but leadership was not among them. I question the process and timing of the reorganization of the Select Board, but mostly […]

Mr. Thys’s recent article (“Sixty-six people appointed to town committees failed to get sworn in”) could be interpreted as blaming those 66 volunteers. Plymouth town government depends heavily on volunteers and the volunteers in question very likely had not read the town bylaws, didn’t know they needed to be sworn in, or were just confused […]

This note is to set the record with respect to comments made at the April 29 Plymouth Select Board meeting by Stephen Lydon. I am writing to clarify that, although he identified as vice chair of Precinct 17, Mr. Lydon’s comments on issues focusing on the Center Hill Preserve and the personal integrity of current […]

The essential issue with Article 16C on the April 6, 2024, spring Town Meeting warrant, a request by the Community Preservation Committee (CPC) for $4,000,000 for affordable housing, has been obscured by a compressed timeframe. Redbrook neighbors have not had time to digest the impact to the community of the ADM/Grantham proposal to build 52 […]