Category: Your View

On Aug. 19, Town Moderator Steven Triffletti asked the Select Board to allow his law firm to represent clients before town committees by designating the moderator as a “special municipal employee.” a designation that would enable him to do so, even   though less than two years ago the Board had unanimously voted to deny him […]

Kudos to the staff and consultants for their impressive work in completing the Holtec/Pine Hills (Pilgrim 1600) Master Plan in a little under a year. While the presentation to the Select Board provided a solid overview, I think it was a missed opportunity not to dive deeper into the consultant’s most recent economic analysis. That […]

This probably isn’t an original thought but here goes.    Why not use Bert’s, pending demolition, as a valuable training exercise for the Plymouth Fire Department? This would provide the PFD with a highly valuable training exercise benefiting everyone in the town in the event of a home/business fire, and it would truly harm no […]

Paul Miller makes a strong case for a deeper consideration of advanced nuclear [power] in Plymouth, and more generally, in Massachusetts (“We should at least consider a small reactor at Pilgrim site,” Aug.19). To continue his argument, he could note that land use constraints in New England may limit how much solar we can deploy. […]

Following the deactivation of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Manomet in 2019, we residents of Plymouth have particularly good cause to be concerned about nuclear power.  The question of how to safely dispose of the approximately 900,000 gallons of decommissioning water still stored at the Pilgrim site remains unanswered.  And, of course, those 62 […]

The Plymouth Stewardship Alliance, a network of individuals with over 100 years of environmental experience in Plymouth, has submitted a petition to place on this fall’s Town Meeting warrant an article that would limit new large-scale earth removal projects in Plymouth for nearly a year. Smaller scale sand removal for home building, commercial development, and […]

Plymouth’s new municipally owned swap shop is aiming for a soft opening in the fall.  It will be staffed by volunteers, managed by the town’s Recycling Committee and maintained by [the] DPW. The location will be 33 Hedges Pond Road in Cedarville.  Operating hours will be Saturdays, from 9 a.m. to noon, May through the […]

Some may consider me a newcomer, only a resident for a little over 50 years, but I have had considerable connections to Memorial Hall during that time. I served on a study committee in the 1980s, followed by a second study a few years later that morphed into a building committee in the 1990s. To […]

I try to keep up on all the posts written about the restoration of Memorial Hall. In your latest article, [Community Preservation Committee member Len] Levin said he feels it is not restorable and it is the consensus of everyone he has spoken to share the same feeling – it is not restorable. I don’t […]

On July 31, the Select Board, through the director of inspectional services, commendably started to play hardball with the owner of Bert’s. Strike one was a letter to the owner pursuant to state law, ordering him to secure theproperty by installing a six-foot chain-link fence around the structure within 24 hours of his receipt of […]