Category: Your View

As a mother, my hope that someday I will live near my adult children and grandchildren fades as the cost of housing becomes more out of reach. When I bought my townhouse at Redbrook, the developer, A.D. Makepeace Company, displayed a master plan showing a beautiful “Commons,” with an open green for gatherings, a row […]

It is sad to see the disinformation campaign being waged by those who want to continue the sale of nips in Plymouth. There are facts available because Plymouth is not the first town to ban nips. In those towns that banned, litter from Nips went down significantly.  No liquor stores closed. No one lost their […]

Hey neighbors, check out the kid-friendly flavors nip bottles come in these days – variety packs are cheap.  How about coconut, lime or banana rum, or vodka in grape, orange, strawberry or watermelon?  Trade with your friends!  There’s vanilla, berry & honey whisky, Bailey’s chocolate cherry, and butterscotch, rootbeer & peppermint schnapps.  Perhaps you’d like […]

A ban on the sale of nips was passed at October’s Town Meeting. Consumers can still purchase any type of alcohol they want. The question is where does someone’s right to drink alcohol out of a small bottle end and everyone else’s right to safe and clean streets begin?  Opponents minimize nips’ contribution to drinking […]

I write in support of the prohibition on the sale of liquor in bottles less than or equal to 100 ml. We have heard many reasons why this prohibition is beneficial. Among them are a reduction in roadside litter, presumably less alcoholic consumption in a moving vehicle, and the reduction of non-biodegradable plastics that contaminate […]

Nips are only part of the overall scattered trash that has lined our roads for years here in South Plymouth. The fast-food litter and many varieties of alcohol containers all chain our beautiful natural road scapes. Bagged and loose trash also line the many routes to the Manomet town dump. Local pond associations have collectively […]

It should not be the role of government to mandate the size of containers that products come in. Liquor companies package their products in small containers because there is a demand for them. The arguments for banning nips are misguided. The proponents of using the government to prohibit these products point to the behavior of some people […]

I would like to share my thoughts on the nip ban. Why should we punish the majority of consumers because of the bad behavior of a few? Most people who purchase nips don’t go jump in a car, drink, and drive around town throwing them out the window. The vast majority of the people who […]

We moved to Plymouth about 18 months ago from the Berkshires – there we had a physical newspaper and at least two online news sources (that had journalists on staff). I was shocked to find out that a municipality, one of the oldest in the country, with over 60,000 people had nothing. I am so […]

The League of Women Voters of the Plymouth Area was dismayed when it saw the percentage of those who voted in the elections last May was a mere 15 percent. Historically, this amount was not that unusual, as that rate fluctuates between 12-15 percent, but this year there was an important ballot question concerning changes […]