Category: Your View

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 […]

That Plymouth residents are anti-development isn’t surprising. NIMBYism is widespread, especially in suburban areas with older, white homeowners. What’s more surprising is that the opposition to this development is only happening now. We’ve known about plans to develop the area at Hedges Pond for nearly seven years. At that time, as far as I can […]

In 2016, Plymouth became the first town on the South Shore to ban single use plastic shopping bags. Today, every single town along the South Shore and many inland have followed suit. Now Plymouth takes the lead again by being the first on the South Shore to ban the use of Expanded Polystyrene (EPS aka: […]

The once great New England shore-side seafood destination that entertained the likes of many famous politicians and celebrities is now a dangerous, blighted eyesore that is ready for the wrecking ball. For multitudes of residents and visitors to Bert’s it evokes many wonderful memories of a big seaside restaurant that was always the scene of […]