Category: Your View

Plymouth Town Meeting should vote yes on [the Oct. 18 Town Meeting] warrant article 26. This article urges the Select Board to prohibit town employees from working for the private Plymouth Foundation. Although the town moderator has ruled the article “out of order” attempting to prohibit a vote, that ruling can be overruled with a […]

Dale Bryan’s letter is right on target in pointing out that resilient communities are integral to the work of combating global climate change. The accelerating greenhouse effect will make extreme weather events both more frequent and more intense in the coming decades, and many aspects of our lives will be forced to change as a […]

While it is unfortunate that middle school students had to witness the ICE apprehension of a man, and the inconvenience caused motorists when they left his car blocking traffic while they transported him, I believe that these incidents would be minimized if Massachusetts and local officials actively worked with ICE so that ICE could concentrate […]

At the Sept. 24 screening [at the library] of the PBS Frontline film “Hurricane Helene’s Deadly Warning,” I found myself reliving some anxious moments. At the time of last year’s hurricane, I had family and relatives living in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee and I was worried about their safety and wellbeing. The storm […]

In 1973, Dick and Lillian Gregory left Chicago seeking a sanctuary where they could raise their family while continuing their commitment to civil rights. They chose Plymouth, trusting its schools and community would welcome their children. With them, they brought a bold vision of peace, social justice, and human rights. Lillian balanced her relentless activism […]

On a recent trip to a local senior living facility as a hospice volunteer, I had an epiphany. As I was sitting and chatting with a patient, I looked around and, not for the first time, noticed that we were a collection of women. The only men I saw were a few patients among many […]

The work of the Select Board is leadership. Over the next decade and beyond, Plymouth faces fiscal, safety, climate, housing, transportation, and cultural challenges, among others, The recent Select Board reorganization demonstrated many things, but leadership was not among them. I question the process and timing of the reorganization of the Select Board, but mostly […]

To the Plymouth Independent article on the 1900 forest fire that ravaged thousands of acres of Plymouth, I can add two photos of the fire that were taken by Edward and Charlotte Emery, owners of one of the houses that was left standing after the fire. One hundred and twenty five years later, that same […]

I believe that the Select Board made a mistake when it voted (3-to-2) on Sept. 16 to reorganize to oust Mr. [Kevin] Canty as chair. The stated basis for the majority’s vote was “dissatisfaction with how Canty was running meetings.” As Mr. Canty candidly acknowledged during the board’s discussion, “I can be too rigid on […]

The Sept. 12 article by Dave Kindy on the Great Fire of 1900 in Plymouth was very interesting and informative. It is fascinating to read personal stories of acts of survival and heroism by local people over 125 years ago. The wildfires in the Western U.S. and Canada bring similar stories to our attention. The […]