Category: Your View

It breaks my heart to read how frightened some of our neighbors are to just conduct the simple acts of daily life – buy groceries or walk their children to school.  I doubt this was true when many of our older relatives (grandparents in my case) arrived in the United States. They made the arduous […]

President Trump has demonized all immigrants, undocumented and legal residents as well as U.S. citizens.  The Brazilian residents of Plymouth are not the murderers and rapists that Trump has characterized. They are law abiding refugees and neighbors living their lives like the rest of us, just trying to get by, providing necessary services for the […]

The June 26 article in the Plymouth Independent about the 163 condo units proposed for North Plymouth by Pulte Homes of New England LLC on land currently owned by L. Knife & Son, LLC and Eight Mates LLC states that Meg Sheehan, a beneficiary of trusts having an interest – but not a controlling interest […]

Regarding the proposed 40B project in North Plymouth and [Select Board Chair Kevin] Canty’s letter [to the state regarding it], I wonder how we can check the veracity of the following: “In the letter, Canty wrote that the town has become overrun with 40b projects that have ‘placed considerable strain on town services and the […]

I write in support of the mission and pray for the safety of ICE agents who were enforcing long-standing immigration laws in North Plymouth, a job embarrassingly made more difficult and dangerous in this state where local law enforcement is prohibited from cooperating. Some suggest that remaining in the country without authorization is a civil crime […]

In cities across the Commonwealth, disturbing scenes are unfolding: masked individuals are seizing people from the streets and forcing them into unmarked vehicles—detaining them without granting access to legal counsel or even a phone call. These chilling tactics evoke the “little green men” Russia deployed in Crimea, and they have no place in a democratic […]

Your description of Long Beach is accurate and informative. I would just add that the impression you describe from the sticker checking hut to the entrance to the 4×4 road is easily improved. Pave the parking lot, build a cute entrance hut, update the restrooms, rake the rocks on the beach or blow in sand […]

Important legislation addressing the evaporation of radioactive wastewater at the former Pilgrim nuclear power plant site was the subject of a State House hearing on June 17.  House Bill H9040 will place a moratorium on increasing the rate of evaporation (aka forced evaporation), from wastewater held at the plant pending completion of a study enabled […]

Editor’s note: David Lee Delaney, a longtime Plymouth attorney, died on June 12 after battling a rare form of lymphoma. Dave Delaney was a highly respected colleague. Like him, I began practicing law in Plymouth in 1974 and remained here for my entire professional life before retiring 45 years later in 2020. A good real […]

I agree entirely with Theodore Bosen’s letter to the editor, “ICE’s actions here and elsewhere are unconstitutional.”  I’m so sick and tired of people calling them “illegal.” Trump labeled them all during his campaign as just that and it remains and is spread as fact by the uninformed right-wing population who take Trump’s words as […]