On Tuesday evening the select board voted to sell the Simes House in Manomet. The reaction to this decision has been swift, visceral, and misguided. Candidates running for this years’ seats on the select board are posturing themselves as advocates for the taxpayers of Plymouth calling for investigations and accountability from the board regarding the […]
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Developer’s case for North Plymouth condos deeply flawed
The article published recently in the Plymouth Independent conflates the land bank and Pulte Homes proposed 40B development in North Plymouth. I believe these two issues while related deserve their own stories and spaces in The Independent. On November 10, the Plymouth Zoning Board of Appeals met to continue the public hearings for Case 4183 […]
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It makes no sense to hold meetings outside of Town Hall
I would like to address the idea that has been floated by Select Board Chair Kevin Canty to move the Select Board meetings to various parts of town. As a resident of the town who understands that the seat of the town’s government is Town Hall, I do not understand the rationale behind this notion. […]
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Town Meeting member who used Nazi phrase should resign
At the Select Board meeting of Jan. 28, John Platte, vice chair of the Plymouth No Place for Hate Committee, stated that many of Plymouth’s Town Meeting members recently received an email from another Town Meeting member, responding to the town manager’s direction that town employees not engage with the Plymouth Independent. In response […]
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Brindisi ‘exercising his right as a supervisor to curb false information’
The indignation of the news media called to task for their reporting never ceases to amaze me. It follows age old school yard behavior of children who, when the bully is finally and ultimately taken down a notch cry foul when for so long that same individual has been bullying their peers but now that […]