Category: Your View

Following the Independent’s April 24, 2026 article about Patrick Van Cott’s brazen theft of thousands of dollars of food and equipment from the School Department over the course of 11 years, I went before the School Committee and advised them that a title rundown of his home in Sandwich, which was assessed for $683,900 for […]

November 3rd’s Ballot Question 7 is not a housing slogan. It is a statewide rewrite of who controls a suburban lot. A yes vote would require cities and towns to allow a single-family house on a residentially zoned parcel of at least 5,000 square feet, with 50 feet of street frontage and public water and […]

May, Superior Court Judge Gregg Pasquale criticized the town manager during the Plymouth Municipal Airport dispute, accusing him of trying to be “cute.” But attending recent airport and neighborhood meetings reveals that the legal ruling missed the complex operational tightrope the town actually walks under state and federal mandates. ​Running a municipal airport involves strict […]

Plymouth Family Network is opening a South Plymouth playroom location thanks to Fair Share Grant funding spearheaded by Senator Dylan Fernandes. For those of us who work with families every day, we know that a playroom is never just a playroom. It’s a place where a child might make their first friend. Where a parent […]

Quincy College is seeking a candidate to fill an upcoming vacancy on its 13-member volunteer Board of Governors. This position must be filled by a resident from Plymouth County. Governors each serve six-year terms, act as advocates for the institution and have certain statutory governance and oversight responsibilities.  They are expected to attend and participate […]

I’d like to respond to the recent letter from residents about issues they’d like the Select Board to address. I appreciate residents raising these issues and asking for meaningful discussion about Plymouth’s future. These are important and complex issues, and I agree that residents deserve opportunities to understand the challenges and weigh in on potential […]

Please give another perspective on the Lindsay Clancy trial. I have two perspectives, one personal and one observed. Seventy years ago, my aunt killed her three small children and tried to kill herself. She had returned home with her children with a frightening health scare. She was sent to a psychiatrist who said to not […]

Last Wednesday at the Planning Board meeting we heard from the school facilities chief and an accompanying engineer who presented to the board (Bolotin, Grandy, Mand) and the downtown steering committee a plan to turn the entire back of the Nathaniel Morton school into a parking lot (expanding from 60 to 150 spaces). The meeting […]

We read with dismay about Mr. Golden’s accusation of misconduct by fellow board member Bill Keohan.  As an aside, anyone who knows Mr. Keohan will find the alleged conduct hard to believe, but we expect the Town to conduct a fair and civil investigation into the allegation. We hope that your new civility policy will […]

The allegations involving my friend Bill Keohan and a teenage Plymouth lifeguard are serious. But they should not be treated as established fact and certainly should not be allowed to erase decades of extraordinary public service to Plymouth. For decades Bill has been one of Plymouth’s most engaged citizens. He helped bring the Community Preservation […]