Category: Government

The Yes on Charter Change group’s campaign to scuttle the Town Meeting form of government in Plymouth launched its public signature drive Wednesday night. About 150 people, including several current and former town officials, turned out for the event at Three V Sand Bar on the waterfront at Cordage Park in North Plymouth. “It’s amazing […]

A teenage lifeguard at Plymouth Beach has accused Select Board member Bill Keohan of refusing his order to wear a life jacket while paddleboarding near the shore. What began as an allegedly angry confrontation over a safety violation has become an amusing whisper campaign at Town Hall. The only one apparently not amused was Keohan, […]

A politically fraught decision to euthanize a dog set off tempers on the town’s Select Board on Tuesday, with two members recusing themselves and a third voting no despite the pit bull terrier’s long record of aggressive behavior. In a rare case, the elected board was asked by town officials to affirm a decision to […]

Forges Field, a network of meadows and playing fields forming Plymouth’s largest athletics facility, won’t likely get a planned expansion and overhaul after town officials were handed a whopping $92 million price tag. The proposal came in as part of a phased plan for a massive expansion and modernization of the sprawling complex over the […]

Gov. Maura Healey’s push to bring nuclear power plants back to the state was dealt a potentially fatal blow earlier this month when state senators voted overwhelming against her idea to take the decision away from voters. On July 1, the State Senate voted 32-8 to adopt a sweeping energy bill which keeps intact a […]

A few months behind schedule, the $20.9 million project to restore Town Brook near Jenney Pond and the Plimoth Grist Mill to something closer to a pristine state – where the river herring can run much as they did hundreds of years ago – is expected to finish by the Spring. As for now, the […]

A stretch of one of the town’s most traveled roadways is getting a makeover just as the summer season kicks into gear. Starting Monday the town and its outside vendor will begin repaving about three quarters of a mile of Samoset Street from Sixteen Twenty Drive – past Walgreens, just before Marc Drive – to […]

More than a dozen Cedarville residents showed up at the Select Board meeting Tuesday to vent disappointment at a recent board vote on a nearby land deal some said was fraught with conflict of interest, undue secrecy and a lack of integrity. The ire was directed at a June 9 vote clearing the way for […]

(This version of the story has been edited to correct a factual error about a unanimous June 2025 vote on appointments taken by the Select Board. Minutes show David Golden left the meeting just prior to the vote. The Independent regrets the error.) A move to oust Select Board member Bill Keohan from his longtime […]

Just months after the Plymouth Municipal Airport Commission sued the town for alleged interference, the Select Board ousted two longtime airport commissioners, including chair Kenneth Fosdick. Board members denied their unanimous decision not to reappoint Fosdick and Douglas Crociati had anything to do with the lawsuit or retribution for filing it. Both had been airport […]