Category: Your View

Two important bills addressing sand mining in Massachusetts were the subject of a State House hearing before the Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources on June 3. House Bill 918 and House bill 948 will put a one-year moratorium on sand mining in Southeastern Massachusetts and establish a committee to study the effects of […]

Stafford Hill Assisted Living hosted a LGBTQ+ art show at its residence on Thursday, June 12, where both residents and community members gathered to admire work featuring one of their very own residents, Gerald Donelan. Gerard Donelan (pen name Donelan), a 76-year-old American cartoonist, was part of the first wave of openly LGBTQ+ cartoonists. Born […]

On a warm June evening under the bright lights of the Plymouth North High School football field, close to 100 spectators gathered to witness something truly special: a “Super Bowl” showdown between teams made up of middle school girls from Plymouth Public Schools’ first-ever girls flag football league. This event wasn’t just a game – […]

Thanks to the Independent for bringing additional facts to bear in the school theft case that other parties were unwilling to share. I have a decade in auditing and accounting experience in various settings. The multi-year theft that was exposed in school food and equipment procurement highlights significant gaps in internal controls that are deeply […]

I don’t think the men and women from our local/federal ICE agency require approval from me in order for them to do their very important and dangerous job to remove illegal criminals from our cities and towns, however, they have my thanks and gratitude. I happened to be in The Vine Hills Cemetery on June […]

I would like to address the idea that has been floated by Select Board Chair Kevin Canty to move the Select Board meetings to various parts of town. As a resident of the town who understands that the seat of the town’s government is Town Hall, I do not understand the rationale behind this notion. […]

ICE are the lawbreakers in this North Plymouth story, not Ms. Fitzpatrick. ICE is arresting people, often without warrants, never with due process or habeas corpus, without notification of family or attorneys as to their whereabouts, often placing them in overcrowded, unsafe detention centers, sometimes out of the country, and most with no criminal charges […]

For a bird lover like me, the view from my office window is a blessing and a curse. A blessing because the full diversity of avian life on the South Shore – warblers and waxwings, hummingbirds and hawks, bluebirds and bald eagles – visits with enough regularity to call them coworkers. A curse because these […]

Federal law enforcement and federal law supersedes state and local law. ICE agents are sworn to uphold the law, and, as we have all been apprised repeatedly, “No one is above the law,” which should include all who entered our country without vetting and without permission. Those interfering with law enforcement are subject to fine, arrest […]

Regarding the “endangered” status of piping plovers, our Northeast US piping plovers are not now, nor have they ever been, listed as endangered. Their official listing is, “threatened in some areas.” This is important because it means that they could be wiped out of these certain areas, for instance, the buggy trail on Long Beach […]