Category: Your View

The League of Women Voters of the Plymouth Area would like to call your attention to an opportunity soon to be provided by Secretary of State William F. Galvin’s office to easily obtain mail-in ballots for all four elections this year. The elections will be in March, May, September, and November. Later this month, postcards […]

The battle of the nip is over and the United Liquor Sellers (ULS) has won over the “Plastic Pickers of Plymouth.” Alcohol addicts can continue drinking while driving and throwing those tiny vessels of joy out of car windows. And we, the people of the United States’ hometown, can continue picking up that garbage from […]

Bill Fornaciari’s column (History & Architecture, Jan. 12) was great story with wonderful memories. We moved to Plymouth – Atlantic Avenue – in 1971 where we had built a lovely colonial house across from the ocean. We had good neighbors, many of whom are still close friends. We shopped at Benny’s plaza for groceries and […]

A recent mailer sent by the opponents of the “nip ban” stated, “In October 2023, a minority (44 percent) of Plymouth’s 162 Town Meeting members were successful in banning the sale of miniature bottles of alcohol in the Town of Plymouth.” This statement suggests that this Town Meeting vote was not fully legitimate. The implication […]

I am writing as a resident of Falmouth, where in September 2020 Falmouth Town Meeting voted to ban the sale of alcohol miniatures (aka nips) in sizes of 100 ml or smaller. As the Plymouth community is debating and will soon be voting on whether to support or overturn Plymouth Town Meeting’s vote to institute […]

Residents of Plymouth should vote at the special election this Saturday (Jan. 13) as if their lives depended on it… because they do. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as of 2023, 37 people in the United States die in car crashes with an alcohol-impaired driver every day. This equates to one […]

In their most recent mailing to Plymouth voters, Plymouth’s liquor stores deceptively state that “In October 2023, a minority (44 percent) of Plymouth’s Town Meeting members were successful in banning the sale of [nips] in the Town of Plymouth”. That statement was deceptive for the following reasons: For Plymouth’s liquor stores to state that “a […]

Last fall in response to the serious litter problem of nips, small liquor bottles, all around Plymouth roads and the concern that they indicate people drinking while driving, Town Meeting members voted to ban the sale of nips in Plymouth. The liquor store owners gathered signatures to have a special election vote to overturn the […]

My “Yes” [on the nip ban] sign was taken from my front yard more than a week ago. As a voting resident of Plymouth this is a first in my participation of freedom of expression. My young neighbors are asking, “Where did the sign go?” How do you answer this question and what is the […]

I am so grateful to have this local coverage of all things “political” – given that all politics begins at home (make that hometown)!  I especially enjoyed listening to Mark Pothier [and Walter Robinson] being interviewed on GBH radio with Jim Braude and Margery Eagan this week.  Although I moved from 40 years [living] in Plymouth […]