Category: Your View

I’ll bite – why aren’t there contingencies for a rain date for the Thanksgiving parade? I understand there are logistical challenges, such as overnight travel, commitments to other parades, and, of course, the ever-present issue of money. But here’s a thought: Let’s keep it simple. If the forecast predicts a 90 percent chance of rain […]

I’m so happy to see you do a follow up story on this topic (drivers running red lights).  Unfortunately, it will take a serious accident to get the chief to pay attention to this issue.  My favorite intersections to complain about are: 1) Stop & Shop on Samoset Street.  It’s unbelievable to witness firsthand any […]

You are to be commended for bringing this very dangerous progression of traffic violations in our town to light. (“Wild in the streets of Plymouth: When did running red lights become normalized.”)  I thank you. For our community to be unable to rely on common sense police regulations and governance of the traffic laws is […]

Great article by Bill Fornaciari regarding the Plymouth/Plymouth-Carver Thanksgiving game tradition. For a generation, the rivalry between Plymouth, including Plymouth-Carver, and Silver Lake was as good as high school sports could get. For this PCHS alum (Class of ’71), the ’69 game was memorable. PC played a great game, in particular the play where Paul […]

Thank you for publishing both sides of the Plymouth Rock story in your November 12, 2024, article, “At Thanksgiving time, sizing up Plymouth Rock.” This 10-ton piece of granite could well be the last vestige of our geological history if Plymouth doesn’t stop sand and gravel mining. Today, the boulders extracted by mining operations are […]

I read your article about red light running in Plymouth with interest. I worked as a police sergeant in Plymouth until 1998. I went on to police chief in Grafton, and then in Gulf Breeze, FL. In Florida we had almost exactly the red-light situation that you described in your article, and it led to numerous […]

I am writing to once again urge the town to take action to remove the [former] Bert’s Restaurant eyesore: The time for further negotiations with the owners of this property has long since passed. Nothing concentrates the mind better than the adoption of an action agenda and the commitment to carry it out in a […]

An amplification to your story on Plymouth Rock symbolizing both perseverance and persecution (which is true indeed) … the Rock also has another symbolic meaning – American independence. This was expressed in the lead-up to the Revolutionary War when, in 1774 (250 years ago), Colonel Theophilus Cotton and some of his militiamen attempted to drag […]

I loved Bill Fornaciari’s article about the library. I haven’t lived in Plymouth for over 50 years, but my fondest childhood memories are from the library [on North Street], so much so that my husband and I tried to buy it as our summer home. We were slightly outbid by the Plymouth Center for the […]

Thank you so much for this article. I was so excited to read someone else was noticing this, I made my husband stop what he was doing and listen to me read it aloud to him. We both felt so validated after reading it. We think we were probably on Court St on that Thursday […]