Category: Your View

I thoroughly enjoyed reading your recent story by Peter Zheutlin called “The Wanderer.” Plymouth’s tourism district has indeed become a magnet for bringing both visitors and locals to enjoy its eclectic feel and trendy restaurants and shops. The tourism industry brings beauty and infrastructure to the places it resides. Can you imagine any other business […]

I want to fully endorse a recent opinion piece by Jenny Healy. My experience in witnessing, as well as interacting with, Plymouth town government is consistent with her observations, and I will go on to say that the way the Select Board speaks to the citizens that they are meant to serve is patronizing, dismissive, […]

I read with some interested Jenny Healy’s observations of town officials’ behavior at a few town related meetings. I read with some dismay Town Manager [Derek] Brindisi’s comments. I should perhaps start by saying I was terribly put off by his directive over the winter to town employees to not talk to the Independent. Muzzling […]

I am asking that you would please support Article 28 at the annual Town Meeting [on April 5]. This article would preserve the rights of citizens to speak at all precinct caucuses and foster debate unimpeded by the precinct chairs. Precinct chairs are not “speakers of the house” positions but rather positions to help facilitate […]

In the past few weeks, I have attended seven meetings, either in person or on Zoom, including Select Board, Zoning Board of Appeals, Precinct 3, Board of Health, Community Preservation Committee and Advisory & Financial Committee. I have been learning a lot and wanting to find ways to become more involved and informed. I’d like […]

As a former hotel executive, spending 24 years operating and building hotels, the last thing Plymouth needs is a convention center. In June of 2024 an article noted that this building should have a column free hall of at least 25,000 square feet and 15,000 square feet of flexible meeting space.  That means that entire […]

Massachusetts has the lowest occurrence of gun deaths in the country. You know why? Because we have good, common sense gun restrictions. No matter how gun advocates try to dispute it, one can logically reason that fewer guns result in fewer gun deaths, and Massachusetts is a prime example of this fact. In case you […]

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, […]