Category: Your View

Readers continue to react to the Jan. 10 column from Independent editor Mark Pothier about Town Manager Derek Brindisi’s attempt to muzzle our reporting. Here’s a sampling of the most recent letters we’ve received. For more reader opinions on the subject, go here. If you’ve got something to say about this or anything else related […]

Editor Mark Pothier’s letter to readers about Town Manager Derek Brindisi’s decision to cut off communications with the Independent has generated an overwhelming response from readers. Here’s sampling of what you’ve had to say. (You can still weigh on this issue: Send your letter to letters@plymouthindependent.org.) Good job Plymouth Independent, you have struck a nerve. […]

I read your probative article on the Cordage train station and the subsequent responsive letter to editor. I was on the North Plymouth Steering Committee when development decisions were made in North Plymouth. Some of us supported the rail trail, as well as mixed PUD zoning, shops, and a marina for Cordage, which long preceded […]

I appreciate so many of your articles. The recent one on Meg Sheehan is a good one – as were articles covering sandmining in our region. It’s important that people have access to this information. I have seen attorney Sheehan at work- at Earth Removal Committee meetings, Carver Conservation Commission, the Planning Board of Carver, […]

On Dec. 6, the Sawyer’s Reach 55-plus community at Colony Place held its third annual Toys for Tots event, which turned out to be another very successful evening. The festive event included raffles, silent auctions, a “Wheel of Fortune” game, and a “lottery tree” door prize. The Sawyer’s Reach community has raised and donated almost […]

Plymouth’s synagogue celebrated the last night of Hannukah on the first night of the new year. On January 1, Congregation Beth Jacob, lit its giant menorah on the Town Hall green to mark the final night of Hannukah. After lighting the final candle and singing holiday songs, the Plymouth Fire Dept. dropped 10 pounds of […]

Over 80 people gathered to celebrate the Chanukah miracles, with the [Chabad of the South Shore] lighting of the Plymouth Rock public menorah, on Sunday, Dec. 29, the fifth night of Chanukah, when suddenly a crash was heard. It was the menorah glasses, the clear glass covers which protect the flames from the elements, which […]

In an amusing twist, last night I finished reading Meg Sheehan’s lawsuit and opened my email today to see Andrea Estes’ article about it. As she reported, Meg is suing town officials and business leaders for [what she says are] vicious attacks against her in public places, online, and in print. It took several sittings […]

Driving around Plymouth, one only can wonder who is designing all these reworked intersections and what their intent is. The obvious intent is efficient and safe traffic flow, I think. The results all too often, fall terribly flat. The worst offender of this has to be the intersection of Halfway Pond Road and Bourne Road. […]

As the late great Paul Harvey would say…”Here is the rest of the story”…regarding the North Plymouth T station. The vision for the North Plymouth station was a compromise between the state and the town in recognition of the need to provide off-peak visitor service that linked Plymouth to Boston. It was a key element […]