The Community Preservation Committee has recommended that Town Meeting approve the purchase of the site of the former Full Sail [bar] for the sum of $665,000 and approve the expenditure of another $220,000 to then demolish the dilapidated structure and construct improvements on the then vacant land. There are apparently twin rationales for this proposal: […]
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Wampanoag land statement could prompt claims for reparations
Representatives of the Wampanoag Indian tribe have asked the Town to recognize their legacy by agreeing to recite a “Land Acknowledgement” statement at the commencement of all municipal meetings. I am opposed to doing so, not because I lack sympathy for the injustices visited upon the Wampanoag Nation, but instead because it could be the […]
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Canty should have apologized instead of doubling down on his gaffe
The Open Meeting Law provides in part that “after notifying the chair…, any person may make a video or audio recording of an open meeting…after notifying the chair of the public body” and “the chair shall inform the attendees of any recordings.” At the June 11, 2024, meeting of the Select Board, Fred Thys, a […]
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Here’s what the town could do to eliminate the eyesore that is Bert’s
The town is currently in discussions with the owners of Bert’s [restaurant] to eliminate their all too prominent eyesore on Warren Avenue. If these discussions do not bear fruit, however, then the Select Board should take the following four steps to remove this eyesore: It is always best to resolve a dispute amicably, but in […]
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Select Board has unfairly made Keohan a political target
I am distressed by the comments made by Select Board Member Harry Helm about CPC Chairman Bill Keohan, as reported in the Plymouth Independent on April 27. Mr. Keohan apparently misstated to the spring Town Meeting the number of housing units that would count towards the town’s subsidized housing inventory at the multi-family project being […]
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Liquor stores ‘deceptively’ described Town Meeting vote to prohibit sale of nips
In their most recent mailing to Plymouth voters, Plymouth’s liquor stores deceptively state that “In October 2023, a minority (44 percent) of Plymouth’s Town Meeting members were successful in banning the sale of [nips] in the Town of Plymouth”. That statement was deceptive for the following reasons: For Plymouth’s liquor stores to state that “a […]