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As budget crisis looms, Select Board won’t back significant cuts
A contentious session with school board and finance advisors ends without a clear path forward.
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Select Board asks for trimmed budget to offset rising healthcare costs
Town Manager Derek Brindisi will present the pared down proposal in advance of a key vote set for Tuesday.
New hurdle emerges in Pulte land deal
The developer’s long battle to build affordable condos in North Plymouth runs up against a family feud.
Residents turn out in force to debate immigration policy
Proposal to further restrict town officials from cooperating in federal immigration enforcement dropped in favor of existing police policy.
Plymouth needs more commercial development. Bureaucracy has kept it to a trickle.
As the town faces a fiscal crunch, it’s burdened by a decades-long failure to broaden the tax
base.
Select Board rejects proposal that could help rein in healthcare costs
Some town employees will pay as little as 10 percent of their insurance premiums upon retirement. Iaquinto wants to change that provision.
Select Board won’t support e-bike regulations
By a 3-2 vote, it rejected an effort led by member Deb Iaquinto
Is Plymouth on the brink of a fiscal crisis?
With costs – including health insurance – rising and revenue flattening, there’s talk of layoffs and even an override.
At North Plymouth meeting, residents decry ICE tactics
Select Board says it will consider whether to adopt a policy regarding the agency’s presence in town.
Proposed e-bike rules hit roadblock: Riders don’t like them
Opponents say measures would be unfair to safety-conscious operators, and tough to enforce.
Keohan says Town Hall mishandled National Day of Mourning dispute
He contends a lawsuit might have been avoided if proposed changes to an agreement governing the event had gone to the Select Board.
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