When Bob Hollis steps through the doors of the Spire Center for Performing Arts, he still slows for a moment before walking inside. He doesn’t pause out of habit. He stands for a moment in reverence. For Hollis, President and Founder of the Spire Center for Performing Arts, the 140-year-old building represents more than a […]
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Annual Arts & Crafts Festival is back
One of the biggest community events of the weekend returns Saturday as the Plymouth Public Library hosts its 7th Annual Arts & Crafts Festival on Saturday and Sunday, bringing more than 60 juried artisans, more than 5,000 visitors with live music, food trucks and family activities to its front lawn. The festival joins a packed […]
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Teenager’s push for more lights at park wins support
For most 8th graders, a civics project ends with a grade. For 14-year-old Emma Dries it was the beginning of a months-long passion project to persuade Town leaders to install lights and extend hours at Stephens Field. When the incoming freshman stepped to the podium before the Plymouth Select Board on Tuesday, she wasn’t asking […]
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Pilgrim Progress returns
For more than a century, one of Plymouth’s most moving traditions has quietly unfolded four Friday evenings at 6 p.m. starting Aug. 7, not with fireworks or fanfare, but with the steady beat of a drum and the measured footsteps of 51 people retracing a journey made more than 400 years ago. The Pilgrim Progress, […]
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Plymouth couple headed to Cooperstown Hall of Fame
Linda and Frank Gigliotti’s first date was a Red Sox game at Fenway Park. “I should have known then,” Linda said. “Forty-five years later, our life is consumed with baseball.” This weekend, that first date will come full circle when the longtime Plymouth couple travels to Cooperstown, New York, where Linda will be inducted into […]
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‘Moth Ball’ to honor nocturnal pollinators
Butterflies get the coffee table books, dedicated gardens and admiration. Moths, despite making up the overwhelming majority of the world’s lepidopteran species, are often dismissed as little more than closet pests. That perception is what one local conservation group hopes to change. This Friday from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m., the Southeastern Massachusetts Pine Barrens Alliance […]
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The Addams Family coming to the stage
This week, Americana Theatre Company presents The Addams Family, bringing the beloved Broadway musical to the Spire Center for Performing Arts, 25 ½ Court St., with a cast of 15 professional actors from both the South Shore and across the country. The production continues the company’s tradition of pairing crowd-pleasing entertainment with stories that offer […]
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Surprise flyover Monday had a special purpose
Plymouth residents heard the loud rumbling and looked skyward in surprise on July 6 as the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels made an unexpected pass over Plymouth Harbor. According to local pilot Michael Goulian, owner of Mike Goulian Aviation, who assisted in coordinating the event, the dramatic flyover wasn’t a practice run or a public performance […]
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Philharmonic’s popular conductor signs for at least another 5 years in Plymouth
When Steven Karidoyanes drove to Plymouth for the first time in the early 1990s as a candidate for music director of the Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra, he remembers cresting the rise on Samoset Street and catching his first glimpse of the ocean. “My lungs filled up with air,” he recalled. “I thought, ‘I have to have […]
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Mayflower II to set sail for Boston’s tall ship parade
The Mayflower II is a familiar sight along Plymouth’s waterfront, but this month the historic vessel will leave her home berth to take part in one of the nation’s largest maritime commemorations. From July 9-17, Mayflower II will travel to Boston for Sail Boston 2026 (Sail 250), a centerpiece of our state’s America 250 celebration […]