Category: Your View

Thank you for Porter Hoagland’s excellent article describing Plymouth’s challenges in preparing for the impacts of a warming climate.   One paragraph deserves clarification:  While 49 percent of the electricity supplied by Plymouth’s power utility, Eversource, does come from natural gas, the Town of Plymouth offers residents and businesses 100 percent clean electricity at a lower […]

Thanks for your reporting of Plymouth’s downtown evolution.  Would love to see a Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods pop up in Plymouth – a perfect place for either versus traveling to Hyannis or Hanover or further north.  There’s so much empty retail space, it would be a boon to the town and region. Chris St. […]

I couldn’t help but be impressed by Gena Corea’s perspective on immigrant versus pilgrim. As an immigrant myself, arriving on a boat with my family shortly after WWII, my father had the designation of Mischling Eins (half breed of the first degree) as a Jew under Hitler. We left behind our relatives in mass graves […]

I just got my library card and, as a new Plymouth resident, immediately checked out books on Plymouth history. Reading them, I suddenly wondered: Couldn’t we call the people at our borders seeking entry “pilgrims” instead of “immigrants”?  I looked up the meaning of “pilgrim” and it seemed to mean someone on a journey to a […]

In regards to your story on public restrooms in Plymouth, in Traverse City, Michigan, when I was last there, they had a program where select businesses had their restrooms open to the public and the town subsidized the cleaning, etc. They even had a map of where they were that was available to the public. […]

Thanks for this article. I was walking with an older visiting relative in downtown Plymouth last winter who really needed [to find] a public restroom and ended up relieving himself behind a garage! I spoke to Lea (Filson, See Plymouth’s CEO) about it then, so it is good to hear about her advocacy. There is one […]

My husband and I downsized to Plymouth four years ago from Andover where we lived for 34 years. Andover had a rather strong weekly, the Townsman and a regional daily, the Eagle Tribune, owned for years and years by a local family. The point of this is they were bought out by a conglomerate, perhaps, […]

Your article (“Lack of restroom access in the business district a ‘going’ concern,” by Mark Pothier, Dec. 7) struck a nerve! As a resident and avid walker, I have many times experienced real trouble looking for a bathroom.  Especially in winter. On the same topic of inhospitable accommodations, have you ever used the bathrooms at […]

You certainly nailed it with your latest story on the lack of restrooms in downtown Plymouth. Forty years ago I’d meet with friends to go running from the Tedeschi’s parking lot by the old courthouse and we didn’t want to use that bathroom back then, and it only got worse over time. It’s a shame […]

I want to first say a big thank you for a really good local paper! I am often in Plymouth, and I am enjoying reading local news again – finally! I’d like to comment on Tatum Stewart’s vision for downtown Plymouth (Mark Pothier’s piece in 12/3/23). So far in Plymouth, there’s pretty much room for everyone to enjoy themselves, […]