Category: Your View

Is the  “ceremonial big check for $2 million” presented by the Plymouth Foundation at the February 11 Select Board meeting a sleight of hand? Is it really just reimbursement for the almost $2 million the taxpayers have already paid to the Foundation for “services”?  Since 2014, the town has paid the Foundation $1.8 million – […]

As a resident of Cedarville and a precinct 8 Town Meeting member, I am upset to read that the Select Board is proposing to use part of the $2 million that was just presented to them by the Plymouth Foundation to pay for the fees to record the legal documents to protect the adjoining 130 […]

Why is one of the last sacred lands of the Wampanoag people being sacrificed for yet another corporate development in Plymouth, Massachusetts? Before English settlement in the 1600s, an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 Wampanoag people lived in approximately 67 villages across their ancestral territory, which spanned southeastern Massachusetts and eastern Rhode Island. Today, only about […]

I note with dismay the push to increase tourism in Plymouth. We say Plymouth is  “America’s Hometown.” That implies people actually live here. There seems to be a coordinated push by town government to ignore the needs and wants of its residents. With this push to increase development, traffic has become unmanageable. Stresses on our […]

I am writing to urge Plymouth residents to inform themselves about the sale of land at 71 Hedges Pond Road to a developer (E.J. Pontiff) for a commercial zone that has been presented to the Planning Board to include a warehouse larger than the Amazon warehouse in Kingston, a lumber yard, and ice skating rinks. […]

I read Michael Cohen’s article about Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth’s expansion with interest and am very pleased at the news. Most of us know at least one person who’s had a long, frustrating and sometimes frightening wait in BID’s emergency room. I am alarmed at the increased number of cancer patients reported and, to my […]

I just did something I have never done before – I emailed all five of our Select Board members about the decision to reduce the number of polling places. I was respectful and asked each board member to reconsider this decision. I truly believe in our democratic responsibility to vote our hearts and minds and […]

The Select Board has voted to reduce the number of polling places to vote in town from 14 precinct locations to 4 more centrally positioned polling locations. This was done at a Select Board meeting without a hearing or any input from the citizens of Plymouth. (Manomet Elementary School will no longer be a polling […]

At the Select Board meeting of Jan. 28, John Platte, vice chair of the Plymouth No Place for Hate Committee, stated that many of Plymouth’s Town Meeting members recently received an email from another Town Meeting member, responding to the town manager’s direction that town employees not engage with the Plymouth Independent.   In response […]

For two decades our region has been battling the opioid epidemic. Like my fellow first responders in Plymouth County communities, I have witnessed first-hand the deadly impact of the opioid epidemic. Two decades later, the sad fact remains that the epidemic has not gone away. In many ways, the impact today is even more acute […]