Category: Your View

In support of [the] article about excessive noise from motorcycles and other vehicles, it seems likely that the loud noise is the result of modified exhaust systems intended to create loud, obnoxious sound. Are not such modifications a violation of RMV regulations? If so, the offending motor vehicles should be impounded until repaired. – Paul […]

Great commentary [on motorcycle noise]. Thank you. Our home sits on Long Pond Road, just south of Clark [Road], Manomet. Long Pond Road in summer is a draw for mobs of motorcycle riders passing our home. These groups are so large as to need minutes to pass! This augments the chronic and escalating problem of […]

The Community Preservation Committee has recommended that Town Meeting approve the purchase of the site of the former Full Sail [bar] for the sum of $665,000 and approve the expenditure of another $220,000 to then demolish the dilapidated structure and construct improvements on the then vacant land. There are apparently twin rationales for this proposal: […]

I read with disappointment that another bright, savvy, assertive woman is leaving Plymouth. Birgitta Kuehn’s move to Chicago is a big loss for our town.   While she often rubbed some people the wrong way, she kept those in the seats of authority and power on their toes.  She was never afraid of speaking out. I […]

As concerns the [“We Have Questions”] article entitled “I Had a Vision of What Plymouth Could Be”: The buildings (The Armory, Mount Pleasant School, etc.) that have been renovated by [Rick] Vayo, et al, are beautiful. I love that they remain in keeping with the historical architecture of their neighborhoods. That said, the decision to […]

Kudos to Plymouth Planning Board member Birgitta Kuehn for standing up to behemoth Makepeace as it plays its dirty tricks to try to add another 113 market-priced homes to the Redbrook housing development. As a Carver resident living in a manufactured home park that abuts one of Makepeace’s many sand mining operations, I’ve seen how […]

Will Plymouth to finally say no to A.D. Makepeace Company? Makepeace cloaks itself in cranberries while most of its profits are from mining sand on its 12,000 acres of land. Makepeace claims this mining is cranberry farming. The sand is a globally rare commodity used for concrete, asphalt, and consumer products. Makepeace clear-cuts forests and […]

This letter was written by citizens of three sovereign Wôpanâak communities; the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, and the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) in response to a July 13 letter by Richard Serkey.   The land and waterways Kutahkeemun is the Wôpanâôt8âôk word for “our land,” which holds deep meaning. […]

Environmental leaders from nine countries in Asia and South Asia met with Sustainable Plymouth and other local environmental groups as part of a three-week International Visitor Leadership Program on Monday, July 8, to discuss community advocacy in areas such as marine health, plastic pollution, and waste management. The program is sponsored by the U.S. State […]

Representatives of the Wampanoag Indian tribe have asked the Town to recognize their legacy by agreeing to recite a “Land Acknowledgement” statement at the commencement of all municipal meetings.  I am opposed to doing so, not because I lack sympathy for the injustices visited upon the Wampanoag Nation, but instead because it could be the […]