Category: Your View

The proposal to regulate ebikes is a needed step to make Plymouth roads and trails safer. When I started riding my ebike six years (and 6,000 miles) ago there were few ebikes and nearly all the riders I encountered acted responsibly. As time has passed more ebikes are on the roads and trails and riders […]

The news about emergency repairs (costing $750,000) being required at Memorial Hall solidifies my opinion that this structure needs to be torn down and replaced. Memorial Hall is hardly a “historic structure” by any stretch of one’s imagination. The original intent, prompting its construction, is sacred and should be honored within and by any replacement […]

Do you know that a Goliath 40B development housing project is proposed for already densely populated North Plymouth? Three buildings are proposed, a total of 163 new units, essentially transforming a quiet neighborhood and one remaining woodland area between Prince Street and Hedge Road into paved over outsized housing projects. Housing is needed. Affordable housing […]

We live in a democratic state. I say this not in reference to a particular political party, but because I firmly believe that Massachusetts truly has a democratic government… one controlled by the people, for the people, achieved by the give and take between opposing voices, with compromise being an important component of the process. […]

My husband and I walk on the Grace Trail (the North Plymouth rail trail) daily and observe so many disturbing behaviors by grownups and young people alike on wheels. Grownups with traditional pedal bikes often go like hell, like they’re in the Tour de France. The Grace Trail is hardly long enough to set a […]

Bill Nye’s words about the current administration’s rejection of climate change are an important reminder of the crucial importance of science in developing policy. In some ways it’s the most important thing human beings have ever invented: a way of asking questions about the world that steadily converges on the truth.  While individual scientists are […]

Massachusetts is near the very top for the cost of electricity. This means economic benefits of owning and driving an EV are markedly degraded. This results in more internal combustion engine vehicles and more pollution. With the high cost of electricity, the benefits of switching to heat pumps is also economically degraded. So as compared […]

In response to the Your View letter “Local officials should work with ICE” by Dick Horton: Mr. Horton characterizes the horrific capture, abuse, and kidnapping of a suspected undocumented immigrant in front of young children as “unfortunate.” Unfortunate is when you lose your sunglasses. This was horrific and these children will likely be traumatized for […]

As a Plymouth resident who cares deeply about our community, I am very concerned about the Pulte 40B project proposed for the Prince Street/Hedges Road neighborhood in North Plymouth. Adding three buildings with a total of 163 condo units in this small area is, to me, egregious. It would bring traffic far beyond what our […]

I read Andrea Estes’ October 2 article “Makepeace defends ‘distasteful’ posts about environmental activist” with mixed feelings: satisfaction, annoyance and curiosity. Satisfaction because Estes reported that A.D. Makepeace attorney Michael McVeigh admitted that he was the person who developed the Meg Cost Us Millions Facebook page. Not only is it good to have that out […]