Category: Your View

I commend David Golden for his responsiveness on the issue of affordability after a winter of unexpectedly high utility bills (“Measures are needed to prevent Mass Save fraud,” April 19). It is in another area where I believe his service as a Select Board member could be improved. Mass Save has drawn fire from Mr. […]

The League of Women Voters of the Plymouth Area invites the public to attend its annual candidates forum on Thursday, May 1, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Great Room at Plymouth Town Hall. This event offers a valuable opportunity to hear directly from the individuals running to serve our community. Uncontested candidates for […]

Something remarkable has been happening on the lower level of the Plymouth Center for Active Living (CAL) over the last few months. A small army of highly qualified volunteers have, without fanfare, been churning out free federal and state tax returns for local taxpayers four days a week. It’s part of a nationwide program called […]

Editor’s note: Plymouth Select Board member David Golden wrote this letter to Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, and submitted it to the Independent for publication. My name is David Golden, and I am a selectman in the Town of Plymouth. At our last Select Board meeting, representatives from Eversource attended, at my request, to discuss soaring […]

I want to applaud a local advocacy group Plymouth for Palestine and the number of Plymouth residents who consistently stand out in protest in downtown Plymouth on Saturdays, rain or shine, snow or 100-degree temperatures. Whether it’s one person or 20 people, they are there, advocating for a ceasefire and an end to US-financed and […]

Last week the town’s consultants presented four concepts (light industry, housing, energy, and hospitality and tourism) around the 1,600 acres of open space (aka the Pine Hills) currently owned by Holtec at the Pilgrim 1600 master planning open house in the Plymouth South Middle School. The good news embedded within all the concepts was an […]

Your April 9 letter from Becca Bankhurst stated I am the sole director and officer of the nonprofit group Community Land & Water Coalition (CLWC). This is inaccurate. I am one of CLWC’s four directors and officers. Together we have over 150 years’ experience in Southeastern Massachusetts in conservation, law, organizing, municipal government, and Native […]

The April 12 PI article, “Trump administration pulls funding for Pilgrim Hall work,” details the revocation of a $200,000 grant to Pilgrim Hall Museum that would have helped modernize and preserve four centuries of documents in its archives. Keith Sonderling, the acting director of the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services, indicated that the […]

I like seafood. I am partial to blackened striper, but I will not turn down a clam basket or crab cakes or most other seafood.  Because I like seafood I care about the fisheries. And because I care about the fisheries and maintaining these fisheries, I was disturbed to see that the current administration has […]

Plymouth’s Zoning Board of Appeals has one brave member when it comes to the 71 Hedges Pond Road development. Alternate ZBA member, David Peck, did his homework. The other Zoning Board of Appeals members relied on the opinions of Plymouth’s special town counsel and the director of inspectional services to render a decision on the […]