A delegation of 10 students, two chaperones, and eight “VIPs” are headed to Japan for an eight-day trip to Plymouth’s sister city of Shichigahama on July 29. Officials tout the excursion as beneficial to the town, but critics say it’s a junket that costs $30,000 and doesn’t produce a quantifiable return. Select Board chair Kevin […]
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Memorial Hall closed after union claims workers’ health put at risk.
Town officials have closed Memorial Hall until early next week, when they expect to receive test results from an air quality sample taken July 10, a week after dust was created when a contractor removed a cement covering on a wall. The closure means the relocation of a national dance contest, Take Centerstage Dance Challenge, […]
No end in sight for 15-year fight over a modest town pension
They’ve been fighting over a $10,000-plus annual pension for 15 years. No kidding. Michael Daley served as Plymouth’s finance director in the 1980s and early 1990s. When he retired in 2006, Daley began collecting a pension of roughly $9,696 a year. (With cost-of-living increases the amount would be close to $17,000 now). In 2010 […]
Town tries to stop construction of 163 condos in North Plymouth
Plymouth officials are asking a state housing agency to block the construction of 163 condominiums on land a developer wants to buy from the family of environmental lawyer Meg Sheehan. The Select Board Tuesday night voted unanimously to urge MassHousing to reject applications for two 40b condo complexes Pulte Homes of New England is seeking […]
Hot tip: Stay indoors if you can
This isn’t breaking news, but it is a hot story. Like most of the state, Plymouth is in the middle of a brutal stretch of weather that started Sunday and will peak Tuesday with temperatures nearing 100 degrees, and a heat index value of 104, according to the National Weather Service. Even late at night, […]
‘No Kings’ rally draws a large, boisterous crowd
Hundreds of charged-up protesters gathered on Coles Hill and around Plymouth Rock on a gray Saturday to demonstrate against President Trump and his polices, taking part in a wave of similar “No Kings” events held in cities and towns in Massachusetts and across the country. They were protesting, among other things, the detention of Plymouth […]
Citing ‘significant’ safety concerns, town opens emergency access lane at Long Beach
Getting in and out of Plymouth’s Long Beach may be tougher over the summer. And this time it’s not about nesting plovers. Citing “significant public safety concerns,” the town says it has assembled a vehicle corridor using Jersey barriers “at the northernmost end of the public/day parking area.” The measure was needed, it says, to […]
Select Board’s Cedarville meeting attracts a crowd
Residents packed the Cedarville Fire Station Tuesday evening for the first in a series of Select Board meetings to be held in Plymouth’s neighborhoods, starting with those farthest from Town Hall. “I wanted, personally, to come to Cedarville first because I know that Cedarville often feels ignored and not heard by people at 26 Court […]
Quintal accuses Canty of ‘ruling with a steel fist,’ acting like Trump
Tuesday’s Select Board meeting had been uneventful: A review of the recent election turnout, the approval of higher water and sewage rates, and a look at which roads will get resurfaced this year. And then, just as the board was considering what was perhaps the most innocuous item of the evening, a dispute broke […]
Town clerk calls election turnout ‘very encouraging’
The success of the May 17 annual town election depends on your perspective. Turnout was just 15.4 percent, but that was about two percent more than last year, and the highest in at least 10 years, Town Clerk Kelly McElreath told the Select Board Tuesday. Board members praised town officials for transitioning smoothly from 14 […]
