Category: Your View

By virtue of the Supremacy clause, the Plymouth Police Department and Dana Flynn, or any entity in our Commonwealth, have no authority to obstruct, ignore or interpret for personal purposes any federal law, nor authority to create new laws at a whim, nor authority to exercise discretionary enforcement. State law does not supersede federal law. […]

The Rotary Club of Plymouth has been helping the Plymouth community since 1940 and today has over 45 members who strive to live by the Rotary motto, Service Above Self. Many business owners and Plymouth area residents are familiar with the annual Plymouth Rotary Auction which is our major fundraiser. The Rotary auction was first […]

Route 3 winds through Plymouth like a lifeline, threading our historic town to the wider world. Yet this artery pulses with peril. In the past six months alone, crashes have claimed lives—a wrong-way driver in January, a suspected street racer in August, a young man veering into the woods in October. The Massachusetts State Police, […]

In April 2024, the town entered into a purchase and sale agreement with the purported owners of property on White Horse Beach to acquire it in order to demolish the longstanding former Full Sail bar. The agreement was contingent upon Town Meeting approval of $655,000 for the land and $220,000 for the cost of demolition. […]

I’m so very glad that Theodore Bosen shared his experience with gun proliferation in the New Hampshire town where he lives. He wrote, “Up here, we have to have guns because everyone else does.” As Bosen wrote, studies show that carrying weapons exponentially increases gun violence. I wanted to offer this after reading your article […]

After leaving Plymouth 10 years ago, I have lived in a community of about 10,000 in northern New Hampshire. I bought a gun. Up here, we have to have guns because everyone else does. They are easy to purchase. Here, every public meeting in City Hall and every session of the legislature has people in […]

I sent the following letter to Police Chief Dana Flynn after reading Fred Thys’s story about him urging the town to opt out of a state law that prohibits firearms in public buildings such as Town Hall: I believe your opinion of excluding Plymouth from firearms laws is very misguided. If your concern is for […]

Thank you for bringing this to the public’s attention (“Police chief wants to allow guns in Town Hall, other public buildings”). I for one will never attend another Town Hall meeting if Town Meeting members decide to opt out of state law. The public has no idea who is coming in armed. Most likely a […]

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 […]