Category: Your View

This is not Texas, where anyone can open carry [a gun]. Unfortunately, yes, there have been a few incidents regarding public places where firearms have been discharged, but all we are doing here is letting a few people get the idea that it is OK to have a gun in a municipal building or park. […]

At recent Plymouth Select Board weekly meetings, people have been speaking at public comment about the 33-acre sand mining operation getting underway at 71 Hedges Pond Road by Duxbury-based Eric Pontiff. This land is the Wampanoag Native American Tribe’s “Great Lot,” an ancient homesite and sacred area. It was designated as conservation land by Town […]

That Plymouth residents are anti-development isn’t surprising. NIMBYism is widespread, especially in suburban areas with older, white homeowners. What’s more surprising is that the opposition to this development is only happening now. We’ve known about plans to develop the area at Hedges Pond for nearly seven years. At that time, as far as I can […]

In 2016, Plymouth became the first town on the South Shore to ban single use plastic shopping bags. Today, every single town along the South Shore and many inland have followed suit. Now Plymouth takes the lead again by being the first on the South Shore to ban the use of Expanded Polystyrene (EPS aka: […]

The once great New England shore-side seafood destination that entertained the likes of many famous politicians and celebrities is now a dangerous, blighted eyesore that is ready for the wrecking ball. For multitudes of residents and visitors to Bert’s it evokes many wonderful memories of a big seaside restaurant that was always the scene of […]

Is the  “ceremonial big check for $2 million” presented by the Plymouth Foundation at the February 11 Select Board meeting a sleight of hand? Is it really just reimbursement for the almost $2 million the taxpayers have already paid to the Foundation for “services”?  Since 2014, the town has paid the Foundation $1.8 million – […]

As a resident of Cedarville and a precinct 8 Town Meeting member, I am upset to read that the Select Board is proposing to use part of the $2 million that was just presented to them by the Plymouth Foundation to pay for the fees to record the legal documents to protect the adjoining 130 […]

Why is one of the last sacred lands of the Wampanoag people being sacrificed for yet another corporate development in Plymouth, Massachusetts? Before English settlement in the 1600s, an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 Wampanoag people lived in approximately 67 villages across their ancestral territory, which spanned southeastern Massachusetts and eastern Rhode Island. Today, only about […]

I note with dismay the push to increase tourism in Plymouth. We say Plymouth is  “America’s Hometown.” That implies people actually live here. There seems to be a coordinated push by town government to ignore the needs and wants of its residents. With this push to increase development, traffic has become unmanageable. Stresses on our […]

I am writing to urge Plymouth residents to inform themselves about the sale of land at 71 Hedges Pond Road to a developer (E.J. Pontiff) for a commercial zone that has been presented to the Planning Board to include a warehouse larger than the Amazon warehouse in Kingston, a lumber yard, and ice skating rinks. […]