Author Archives: Linda MacDonald

Dear editor, Thank you for Mark Potheir’s article on Town Meeting’s refusal to cut 1% of the budget. I haven’t watched the meeting, but I do wonder about the quality of the data members receive. Through a prospective town meeting member, I recently tried to find out how many fires the Pinehills Fire Station has […]

I appreciated Al DiNardo’s letter regarding a “return to limited government “. I especially appreciated his willingness to use the Firefighter Safer Grant as an example of the way local governments collude with the state to circumvent the limits of Prop 2 1/2. When I lived in Weymouth, the councilors laid off the whole crossing […]

I am not on Facebook, so not privy to the “cage fight” atmosphere. However, I have lived through many snowstorms and watched many snowplow operators exhibit little regard for infrastructure while doing their well-compensated job. I appreciate that snow plowing is a difficult job. However, it is also clear that little training and expectations for […]

Regarding the proposed 40B project in North Plymouth and [Select Board Chair Kevin] Canty’s letter [to the state regarding it], I wonder how we can check the veracity of the following: “In the letter, Canty wrote that the town has become overrun with 40b projects that have ‘placed considerable strain on town services and the […]