Category: Your View

After reading your piece on the two teachers who walked the length of Cape Cod to protest conditions for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees at the Plymouth County Correctional Facility, I was reminded of the protest hosted by a number of groups at the PCCF on Saturday, July 25th at 1:00 pm.  Given the […]

This past Thursday, July 16, a fire started in the woods beyond our home on Bloody Pond. The Plymouth Fire Department was prompt and efficient getting the fire under control. At the time we noticed the fire, the wind was out of the Southwest about 12 to 15 knots. This was directing the fire towards […]

In her ninety-three years Bobbi Clark filled an enormous treasure chest of unique, remarkable, some invaluable, achievements and memories. Such a rich book of Life!  While most significantly as a wife, mother and a grandmother Bobbi was also a very accomplished woman.  Her five Emmys in Chicago broadcasting only speak to earlier decades. How fortunate […]

The Plymouth For All Committee, a committee of the Town of Plymouth, presented its ninth annual Outstanding Citizenship Award to three Plymouth High School students at the July 7th Select Board Meeting.  The purpose of this award is to recognize a student who has shown a commitment to social justice by challenging discrimination or bigotry […]

I recently came across an Instagram profile of a group of Plymouth firefighters training for the Firefighter Challenge. The Firefighter Challenge is a nationwide sporting event in which firefighters are required to wear turn out gear while engaging in a series of simulated firefighting tasks. In the Instagram posts, Plymouth firefighters wear full turn out […]

To paraphrase Rodney Dangerield, ‘moths don’t get no respect.’ Though they outnumber their cousin the butterfly by gazillions, are important pollinators in their own right, and are synonymous with romantic obsession, say the word ‘moth’ and most people think of the critters that make a meal of a good suit. That’s why, more than a […]

As our nation marks the 250th anniversary of its founding, we have an opportunity not only to celebrate our history but also to acknowledge a fundamental moral truth: the land we call home was taken from Indigenous peoples. Here in Plymouth, America’s Hometown, that truth is especially meaningful. We live on the ancestral homeland of […]

Every month, an official committee of the Town of Plymouth sits down in Town Hall to make this a more welcoming place. I have sat in that room as an associate member. The committee is not idle, per se. It manages a social-justice book collection at the library, has hosted speaker series, and organizes an […]

As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the sagacious political virtues enshrined so eloquently in that eternal document, let us remember the Town of Plymouth’s 400-year experiment with democracy and its founding document, “The Mayflower Compact,” and how much Plymouth influenced our nation’s founding. That experiment began when 102 of […]

A recent letter critical of the Plymouth Independence’s coverage of a select board meeting, reminded me of a quote from a dear friend and exemplary journalist, Bobbi Clark, “I don’t write the story. You make the story. I report it.” To the journalists keep reporting the story.  To those subject to reporting, make a better […]