How to submit a listing for this column: It’s easy. Just email Robert Knox at robert@plymouthindependent.org. A good quality photo without type on the image – sent as a jpeg attachment – helps. We’ll accommodate as many listings as possible. “What a wonderful community of amazing writers and readers we have,” said Miriam O’Neal, the […]
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Now you can listen to the Plymouth Independent
Thanks to the Talking Information Center, you can now listen to some of the Plymouth Independent’s journalism. Since 1978, the Marshfield-based center has provided a reading service available to all – especially to the blind, visually impaired, and otherwise text-impaired population of Massachusetts and beyond. Each week, approximately 200 volunteers read aloud from national and local […]
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Concerned about your drinking water? You might want to attend this event.
How to submit a listing for this column: It’s easy. Just email Robert Knox at robert@plymouthindependent.org. A good quality photo without type on the image – sent as a jpeg attachment – helps. We’ll accommodate as many listings as possible. Margaret Sheehan, a Plymouth native – and currently a summer resident – who’s known for […]
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Delayed by the pandemic, a Plymouth 400th composition finally debuts
How to submit a listing for this column: It’s easy. Just email Robert Knox at robert@plymouthindependent.org. A good quality photo without type on the image – sent as a jpeg attachment – helps. We’ll accommodate as many listings as possible. “Wampanoag: Stories for All Time,” a work composed for the celebration of Plymouth’s 400th anniversary […]
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‘At the Edge of the Sea’ offers a shoreline perspective
How to submit a listing for this column: It’s easy. Just email Robert Knox at robert@plymouthindependent.org. A good quality photo without type on the image – sent as a jpeg attachment – helps. We’ll accommodate as many listings as possible. “We’ve all stood at the edge of the sea, feet in the sand, witnessing its […]
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An honor for a former police chief, plus an online chat with NPR legend Nina Totenberg, guitar whiz Trace Bundy comes to The Spire, and more.
How to submit a listing for this column: It’s easy. Just email Robert Knox at robert@plymouthindependent.org. A good quality photo without type on the image – sent as a jpeg attachment – helps. We’ll accommodate as many listings as possible. Former Plymouth Police Chief Michael Botieri, who joined the force in 1985 and rose to […]
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Philharmonic’s director: ‘Be prepared to be blown away’
How to submit a listing for this column: It’s easy. Just email Robert Knox at robert@plymouthindependent.org. A good quality photo without type on the image – sent as a jpeg attachment – helps. We’ll accommodate as many listings as possible. In his 30th season as the Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra’s music director, Steven Karidoyanes says he’s […]
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‘Nothing makes my heart sing more than when someone gets something from the animals’
Darlene Nickerson is the founder and director of Black Feather Horse Rescue. According to its website, the “mission and passion of this rescue is to find abused and neglected animals, particularly horses, to give them a loving and healing home, earn their trust, care for their needs and when possible, find them new loving homes.” […]
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From Dylan to Pink Floyd, the Slambovian Circus of Dreams wears its influences well
How to submit a listing for this column: It’s easy. Just email Robert Knox at robert@plymouthindependent.org. A good quality photo without type on the image – sent as a jpeg attachment – helps. We’ll accommodate as many listings as possible. Their musical influences come from a range of sources, founding member Tink Lloyd acknowledges, but […]
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Immigrants find a temporary home, but face an uncertain future
The Baymont by Wyndham Motel in Kingston has become a temporary home to about 300 people from all over the Americas. Ninety-six immigrant families live at the motel off Route 3, where their housing is overseen by the Plymouth Area Coalition for the Homeless. About 75 percent of the families are newcomers to Massachusetts, said […]