Category: Your View

Some may consider me a newcomer, only a resident for a little over 50 years, but I have had considerable connections to Memorial Hall during that time. I served on a study committee in the 1980s, followed by a second study a few years later that morphed into a building committee in the 1990s. To […]

I try to keep up on all the posts written about the restoration of Memorial Hall. In your latest article, [Community Preservation Committee member Len] Levin said he feels it is not restorable and it is the consensus of everyone he has spoken to share the same feeling – it is not restorable. I don’t […]

On July 31, the Select Board, through the director of inspectional services, commendably started to play hardball with the owner of Bert’s. Strike one was a letter to the owner pursuant to state law, ordering him to secure theproperty by installing a six-foot chain-link fence around the structure within 24 hours of his receipt of […]

Triple-decker is a building for three families on a small lot. From the 1870s to 1930s, triple-deckers were built in New England to house working families, many of whom were immigrants. They could be a solution to affordable housing that Massachusetts is struggling with now.  Unfortunately, New England society didn’t like triple deckers back then. […]

Each year the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women works with state legislators to identify and honor women who make outstanding contributions to their communities. According to the MCSW, these “Commonwealth Heroines are women who don’t make the news but make the difference.” Every day, thousands of women perform acts that make our homes, […]

I have read the controversial articles about Memorial Hall, and I just don’t get it. Memorial Hall is a gymnasium masquerading as a concert hall. It offers terribly uncomfortable seats, no acoustics, and it’s a gym, not a concert hall. It might be useful as another type of venue, but Plymouth needs a bonafide concert […]

The 40b legislation was passed to provide more affordable housing in Massachusetts. It gives developers who agree to set aside 25 percent of the units in a multi-family building as meeting the definition of affordable the ability to skip review by town boards and submit their plans for review by the state only. This legislation […]

Am I the only one or does anyone else think Memorial Hall is a terrible venue for staged events? It obviously was designed for basketball games – when was the last basketball game played there? Rather than putting lipstick on a pig why don’t we consider building a new hall with proper acoustics, lighting and […]

Given all the figures I have seen and the scope of renovations required to bring Memorial Hall up to a decent standard, I am of the opinion that it should be torn down and a new facility be built. Let’s have a venue that is something to be proud of at a cost that is […]

Plymouth deserves more than an upgrade of Memorial Hall. What is needed is really a complete redo, developed like a true music/theatre venue. The side seats are uncomfortable, twisting necks of all viewers and some seats on the back curves are so short for leg room. They they are useless unless you are probably a […]