Category: Your View

I am a resident of Cape Cod. I am born and raised here and have seen many negative environmental changes occur over my lifetime. I am writing this letter because I care about the future of the environment of Southern Massachusetts and the Cape Cod Bay. In 2018, Holtec International purchased the Pilgrim Nuclear Power […]

This is in response to the Plymouth Independent’s Feb. 9, 2024, story, Neighbors’ fight to stop 55-plus apartment project backfires.  The story claims to be about the Claremont Plymouth LLC apartment complex proposed for Colony Place. Instead of being about the facts and the many missteps inside Town Hall that created the controversy, the newspaper […]

Yes, In My Back Yard. The current struggle between the Claremont apartment project and Sawyer’s Reach neighbors at Colony Place is just another episode of the constant and omnipresent struggle between developers and Not-In-My-Back-Yard (NIMBY) neighbors. Developers seek maximum profit from building housing, while neighbors want to protect their style of life and environment. This […]

I read with interest Dina Karam’s submission to the Plymouth Independent (“Rabbi’s travel diary is ‘deeply skewed’”). Karam is critical of Rabbi Estelle Mills’ travel diary, and of the Independent’s decision to publish it, because it is “deeply skewed to highlight the events of Oct. 7 as though they occurred in a political and humanitarian […]

I think you need to carefully review your decision to feature in the Plymouth Independent the travel diary of Rabbi Estelle Mills. Her observations she has published thus far on her visit to Israel are deeply skewed to highlight the events of Oct. 7 as though they occurred in a political and humanitarian vacuum rather […]

Besides Trader Joe’s, there are other great stores that could be located in Plymouth, especially Wegmans (Chestnut Hill).  Also great are The Fresh Market (in Hingham) and Ring Bros. Marketplace (Dennis). Brothers Marketplace in Duxbury is also very good, and not far away. To its detriment, Trader Joe’s has a lot of private label food […]

I know I speak for others who share my delight to read the Plymouth Independent report regarding the School Committee budget vote –  in less than 24 hours!  Our citizens do need to know and understand what decisions their elected and appointed town officials are deciding on their behalf. I was particularly disturbed as I […]

The essential issue with Article 16C on the April 6, 2024, spring Town Meeting warrant, a request by the Community Preservation Committee (CPC) for $4,000,000 for affordable housing, has been obscured by a compressed timeframe. Redbrook neighbors have not had time to digest the impact to the community of the ADM/Grantham proposal to build 52 […]

I met Dr. Stillman in 2015 when we moved to Kingston. I had researched veterinarians and came to the conclusion that he was the best for Rocky and Apollo, my golden retrievers. He saw Rocky and Apollo from 2015 to 2022. When we moved to Kingston [they] were already eight years old. They were in […]

As an administrator in the highly regulated, highly intense, healthcare public service sector, one learns that labor (50 percent) and supplies (20 percent) across the industry stay consistently at roughly 70 percent of the budget. Ms. Estes writes in her latest article that the 2025 school budget is “a level-funded budget of $118,734,700 for fiscal […]