Author Archives: Margaret E. Sheehan

My first Plymouth home as an infant was on Nelson Street next to Benny’s Plaza in North Plymouth. The store was a favorite of grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins until it closed. From children’s toys and bicycles to nylon stockings, Benny’s had the best prices. My mother was at home when she moved to Nelson […]

Will Plymouth to finally say no to A.D. Makepeace Company? Makepeace cloaks itself in cranberries while most of its profits are from mining sand on its 12,000 acres of land. Makepeace claims this mining is cranberry farming. The sand is a globally rare commodity used for concrete, asphalt, and consumer products. Makepeace clear-cuts forests and […]

This is in response to the Plymouth Independent’s Feb. 9, 2024, story, Neighbors’ fight to stop 55-plus apartment project backfires.  The story claims to be about the Claremont Plymouth LLC apartment complex proposed for Colony Place. Instead of being about the facts and the many missteps inside Town Hall that created the controversy, the newspaper […]