Category: Your View

The newly established Manomet Community Garden at St. Bonaventure recently harvested its first crop of lettuce to supply the St. Bonaventure food pantry and Second Parish food pantry. Residents of the village of Manomet and local businesses have partnered with the Manomet Community Garden Association, inc. to create a community garden which contains fourteen raised […]

“Congratulations! You have taken a courageous step in considering and/or declaring your candidacy for elected office.” This is the first line in the handbook the town provides people who take out papers to become a candidate for an elected Plymouth position. Courageous may have not been the first word that came to mind when I […]

This note is to set the record with respect to comments made at the April 29 Plymouth Select Board meeting by Stephen Lydon. I am writing to clarify that, although he identified as vice chair of Precinct 17, Mr. Lydon’s comments on issues focusing on the Center Hill Preserve and the personal integrity of current […]

This letter aims to provide a full picture about the “lawsuit” referenced in recent Your View letters about Select Board Chair [Richard] Quintal’s April 29, public comments. The lawsuit is a “Citizen Suit” case brought by 20 “persons” as plaintiffs. Community Land and Water Coalition (CLWC) is only of the 20 plaintiffs – not the only one​ […]

At the April 29 Select Board meeting, Chair Dick Quintal made statements during a second public comment period, which he requested, that contained inaccuracies about a lawsuit being brought against the Town of Plymouth. He asserted that the lessee of Center Hill Preserve is suing the town and that Frank Mand is vice chair of […]

One more slanderous “confusion” from the Plymouth Select Board, this time from its chair, Richard Quintal, whose target was Frank Mand, vice-president of a not-for-profit environmental organization, the Southeastern Massachusetts Pine Barrens Alliance. In his confusion, Mr. Quintal managed to offend not only Frank Mand, but also the entire grassroots environmental community of Plymouth and […]

We lived in Hingham in the 1980s when a developer made an offer for South Shore Country Club. The situation was very similar to the proposal made to acquire Atlantic Country Club. The Town of Hingham had to make a decision to either buy the golf course or let the development proceed.  It became a […]

Last week Select Board Chair Richard Quintal, speaking “as a private citizen,” wrongly labeled the not-for-profit organization Southeastern Massachusetts Pine Barrens Alliance (SEMPBA) as being a party in a lawsuit against the town despite having a “sweetheart deal” on a town owned building. Along the way, he managed to drag in the name of candidate […]

At best it’s abuse of power. At worst it’s utter incompetence and unchecked hubris. Select Board Chairman, Mr. Quintal, went to the podium for public comment recently and stated he will speak as a citizen. He then proceeded to share information that is never open to citizens (ongoing litigation). He did so with righteousness and […]

In late 2024 while my sister Emily and I were visiting the wonderful town of Plymouth for the holidays, our mother Deb Iaquinto confidently declared: “I’m going to run for Select Board in the upcoming town election.” Our initial reaction was a mix of “What?!” and, “Are you sure?” She had “retired” from her high-octane […]