Category: Your View

What happened to the old fashion barber shop?   I’m visiting from Florida, looking for a haircut.  Every place I go you need an appointment – and it’s $30. Ridiculous. Do they all think they’re “hair stylists?” I’ll wait till I get back to Florida, where I can walk into a real barber shop, read […]

The Jenney Pond restoration is beyond expectations. In the last 25 years, the landscape of several parks has changed dramatically but Jenney Pond has always been a special place for us to walk to. In the winter it would be difficult to walk over the icy wooden bridge and now, with the new wide bridge, […]

The Plymouth No Place for Hate Committee presented its eighth annual Outstanding Citizenship Award to two Plymouth high school students at the July 8 Select Board Meeting.  The purpose of this award is to recognize students who have shown a commitment to social justice by challenging discrimination or bigotry through his/her actions, and/or who actively […]

In June, 2024, the Plymouth Independent published a letter from me urging the Select Board to take action to remove the [former] Bert’s restaurant eyesore. Three months later, in September 2024, I spoke to the Select Board during public comment to urge them again to do the same thing. At that time, I proposed taking […]

Several recent letters to the Independent would have you believe that “parking problems impede downtown prosperity,” and that building a parking garage behind Memorial Hall would go a long way towards solving the problem. I’ve heard these kinds of comments for years now. The Downtown Waterfront District’s initiative to bring more events to the downtown […]

Hooray for the union representing Department of Public Works employees working at Memorial Hall. I felt so encouraged reading Fred Thys’s article about the temporary closing of the hall due to the [alleged] presence of silica dust. Union president Dale Weber voiced the identical concerns about silica dust – a carcinogen known to cause severe […]

I am writing concerning the ongoing sand mining in Plymouth. This silica dust – emitted by sand mining – poses a threat to Southeastern Massachusetts and the public health of its residents. Sand mines are permitted in towns approved by the Zoning Board of Appeals and building inspectors in Plymouth. These permits do not require […]

The plans to “revitalize” downtown Plymouth have a straightforward goal: Profit. Oh, the plans sound lovely – trees, plants, rain gardens, little lights. But how ironic that the town whose planners, movers and shakers, and committees are concerned that downtown Plymouth has a shortage of trees and that the aforementioned are concerned about water quality […]

The Plymouth Select Board has chosen to reach out to the communities in the southern end of town by conducting meetings in the neighborhoods. It is anticipated that other parts of town will also be included. There was a meeting in Cedarville last month. A meeting at South Elementary School is scheduled for Tuesday, July […]

I read the Plymouth Independent on a regular basis. One of the biggest hindrances to any kind of development to downtown Plymouth is the lack of parking (“Can downtown Plymouth be more like Portsmouth?”). I have lived here for over 50 years, and it has always been an issue. When it gets busy, there is […]