Category: Your View

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 […]

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. […]