For the first time in over 100 years, the Jewish community in Plymouth will observe the High Holy Days without a home of its own. In June, Congregation Beth Jacob (CBJ) sold its historic synagogue at the corner of Pleasant and Sandwich streets in downtown Plymouth. The congregation has purchased property on Summer Street […]
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Four locals directly impacted by 9/11 attacks to speak
It wasn’t yet 9 a.m., but Jennifer Lynn Kane was already busy at work. The CPA liked to arrive early at her office before clients started calling and problems began popping up. Only 26, the Plymouth native was a rising star at the global professional services firm Marsh & McLennan, much admired by both management […]
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Outside the Clancy trial, a foreign world within Plymouth’s borders
The weekly Farmers Market on the South Street library’s lawn went on as usual Thursday afternoon. Vendors sold organic fruits, vegetables, and homemade goods under pop-up canopies pitched across the tamped down grass. Less than a half mile away on Obery Street, the same type of coverings shielded people from the late summer sun’s reach. […]
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Plymouth to choose peace prize recipient
Peace is an ambitious word. Peace can mean the end of a war, reconciliation between nations or the resolution of conflicts that seem impossibly large. But for Dick Gregory, the famed civil rights activist, comedian and lifelong advocate of nonviolence whose name will now be carried by a new Plymouth peace prize, the idea was […]
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Purple Heart memorial to be unveiled
In the early morning hours of June 15, 1969, Ken Medeiros was on patrol with the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne in the Sau Valley of South Vietnam. His division had just repulsed three attacks by the North Vietnamese Army at Fire Support Base Currahee and was now scouting the perimeter to make sure the threat […]
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Spire Music Academy to open in September
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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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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Plymouth’s history of rope
Anyone who has plodded around Plymouth long enough knows the shortcuts pedestrians take from one part of the downtown area to another. Strung together, these ancient alleyways, cracked blacktop parking lots, forgotten side roads and an occasional private property can save steps while trekking through the neighborhoods between the waterfront and shopping district. “It’s really […]
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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 […]