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The great horned owlet pictured here was orphaned by highly toxic chemicals pest management professionals and homeowners use to target rats and other rodents. Second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides, or SGARs, were developed in the 1970s as a more potent successor to the previous generation of anticoagulant rodenticides, including warfarin. Rodents can consume a lethal dose of […]

The League of Women Voters of the Plymouth area is pleased to announce two candidates forums at the end of April. They will showcase the local town elections that are contested. These forums will help the Plymouth Voter decide on the best candidate to fill each of the open seats. The first forum will be […]

Editor’s note: The writer is referring to Article 16C on the April 6 Town Meeting warrant, which calls for spending $4 million in Community Preservation money to subsidize developer Grantham Group’s construction of 62 affordable one-bedroom apartments for people age 62 and over at Redbrook. The total cost of the project is estimated at $25 […]

When Article 16C: Affordable housing – Cranberry Commons at Redbrook comes before Town Meeting this Saturday, April 6, Town Meeting should enthusiastically vote to support this project. There is a lot of misinformation surrounding this project – much of it due to the fact that so many things have changed since the original proposal. The […]

Plymouth needs to simplify its process for renewing routine annual permits. Years ago, I approached [then-Select Board member] Patrick Flaherty about the inconvenience of renewing annual passes.  He informed me that the town was reviewing processes and there would be a better system. That was three years ago; it’s not much better. It seemed like we were on track when […]

At a recent combined precinct 4 and 18 meeting, a representative of the Advisory and Finance Committee (A&F) represented that it did a complete 360 on its vote on [Town Meeting] Article 16C  – the “senior” affordable housing project for Redbrook – [from] initially unanimously against it to unanimously for it on a “revote” – […]

The Church of the Pilgrimage in Town Square, Plymouth, would like to note a transition in its ministry. On Monday, March 18, Rev. Dianne Arakawa said goodbye to her transitional ministry at The Church of the Pilgrimage. Rev. Arakawa served ably for the past two and a half years. She led the congregation through the […]

I am a Vietnam vet but served in a support role. I wrote this out of respect for my grunt friends: Ed Sherman, Mike Rodriguez, Bill McKinney, Ron Nicynski, Ham Pakradooni, Don Wright – who passed from Agent Orange-related cancer – and a long-lost grade school friend, John Reynolds. March 29 is Vietnam Veterans Appreciation […]

The League of Women Voters of the Plymouth Area would like to thank Christopher Campbell, superintendent of Plymouth Public Schools, Derek Brindisi, town manager, and Lynne Barrett, director of finance for their information-filled program, “Where Do My Taxes Go?” Organized by the League, this is the second year that this presentation has been made available […]

The recent article regarding parking in Plymouth was informative and timely. Plymouth residents and visitors are urged to check the Park Plymouth website for a fuller understanding of how paid parking works in Plymouth, where to find the best parking spaces, and why turnover of parking spaces is essential to the economic well-being of downtown […]