Category: Government

How can the town stop the proliferation of affordable housing complexes that have strained services and roiled neighborhoods over the last decade? By building more affordable housing. That was the pitch developer Rick Vayo made to the Select Board during a presentation last week detailing plans for Darby Farms, a 392-unit apartment complex he’s proposing […]

Some Plymouth Municipal Airport commissioners on Thursday spent the first 15 minutes of their monthly meeting criticizing a published report about their personal interests at the facility they regulate. It was their first meeting since the Plymouth Independent published an examination of several current and former commissioners’ ownership of hangars or businesses at the airport. […]

Airport Commissioner Karin Goulian showed up at a Select Board meeting earlier this month with an unusual request. Goulian, who along with her husband runs aviation businesses at the Plymouth Municipal Airport, was asking to be named a “special municipal employee” — a designation that would exempt her from key sections of the state’s conflict […]

Select Board Chair Deb Iaquinto admonished her fellow board members Tuesday about their continued bickering from the dais, announcing a ban on them directly addressing each other at their weekly meetings. “We continue to make headlines that don’t reflect the actual work that we do for the people of Plymouth,” Iaquinto said at the beginning […]

Faced with an uprising of outspoken neighbors, a deadline quickly slipping away, and talk of the land going back on the market, Pulte Homes may have abandoned its plan for a condo project in North Plymouth. The news would mark the end of a yearlong fight by neighbors to kill the project they said would […]

For the fourth time in as many years, construction is once again disrupting Water Street, one more last-ditch effort to build a new sewer line to replace the aging pipe running under a portion of the harbor. Work began Monday, running from the rotary near the visitor’s center to the intersection of Chilton Street. Water […]

Wrestling Brewster is all about revamping Plymouth’s form of government to better suit the town’s present and future. That’s why he’s running for a seat on a nine-member charter commission likely to be on the ballot next May – a crucial step toward putting proposed changes before voters, who would get the final say. So […]

An alleged “sweetheart deal” with the newly hired Plymouth County administrator is being challenged in court as excessive and illegal. Plymouth County Treasurer Thomas O’Brien filed suit against his county commissioners on Wednesday asking a judge to vacate the contract and issue a preliminary injunction on the hire until his suit is decided. The ongoing […]

Town officials told their bosses on the Select Board Tuesday the town has doled out nearly $40 million in taxpayer-funded project grants over the last 23 years without the proper oversight and preservation restrictions. Although they took no vote, the board members who spoke supported Town Manager Derek Brindisi’s controversial position to withhold future grant […]