Category: Your View

I read Michael Cohen’s article about Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth’s expansion with interest and am very pleased at the news. Most of us know at least one person who’s had a long, frustrating and sometimes frightening wait in BID’s emergency room. I am alarmed at the increased number of cancer patients reported and, to my […]

I just did something I have never done before – I emailed all five of our Select Board members about the decision to reduce the number of polling places. I was respectful and asked each board member to reconsider this decision. I truly believe in our democratic responsibility to vote our hearts and minds and […]

The Select Board has voted to reduce the number of polling places to vote in town from 14 precinct locations to 4 more centrally positioned polling locations. This was done at a Select Board meeting without a hearing or any input from the citizens of Plymouth. (Manomet Elementary School will no longer be a polling […]

At the Select Board meeting of Jan. 28, John Platte, vice chair of the Plymouth No Place for Hate Committee, stated that many of Plymouth’s Town Meeting members recently received an email from another Town Meeting member, responding to the town manager’s direction that town employees not engage with the Plymouth Independent.   In response […]

For two decades our region has been battling the opioid epidemic. Like my fellow first responders in Plymouth County communities, I have witnessed first-hand the deadly impact of the opioid epidemic. Two decades later, the sad fact remains that the epidemic has not gone away. In many ways, the impact today is even more acute […]

Snowy owls are among the most iconic birds visiting Massachusetts during winter. Known for their striking white feathers and piercing yellow eyes, these majestic creatures can travel thousands of miles in a season in search of habitats with enough food to sustain them before returning to their breeding sites in the high Arctic. However, an […]

The mission of League of Women Voters is to empower voters and defend democracy. We believe that democracy is not a spectator sport and that it is paramount that we have multiple candidates running for offices in our town, county, state and nation. We also know that becoming a candidate can be pretty intimidating for […]

I have been reading the Plymouth Independent from its inception and truly appreciate the in-depth reporting and news updates that give me a behind the scenes look at issues. I was not aware of the recent “brouhaha”, surrounding the town manager’s edict to silence town employees from speaking to the PI. I reread the articles […]

Thank you for your story on the discussion at the Select Board meeting of the relationship between the town manager and the Plymouth Independent. I’d really like to thank Richard Serkey for his comments. He said exactly what I was thinking – except in the current political climate, I was afraid to express my feelings. […]

Mark Pothier’s commentary on the decision by the town manager to prohibit communication with the PI was important in laying out the history and the unfortunate and inappropriate response from the town to PI’s reporting. That noted, the PI’s response might have been better served not to define the “relationship between government and journalists [as] […]