The smell of pine pitch is heavy on the breeze as logging proceeds across 34 acres off Hedges Pond Road to clear land and cut in an access road for a new Cedarville business park. But opponents of the project aren’t giving up. They have appealed building and earth removal permits issued for the project, […]
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Posted inGovernment
Badger was the only Democrat to vote in favor of auditing the Legislature
Newly elected state representative Michelle Badger was the sole Democrat this week to vote in favor of cooperating with Massachusetts State Auditor Diana DiZoglio’s proposed audit of the Legislature. Legislators voted 24-127 on Tuesday to reject a Republican-sponsored amendment to House rules that would have forced compliance with DiZoglio’s audit. The plan was wildly popular […]
Posted inPolice & Fire
Police chief wants to allow guns in Town Hall, other public buildings
Town Meeting members will decide in April whether to opt out of a state law that bans firearms from public administrative buildings and properties, including parks. At the urging of Police Chief Dana Flynn, the Select Board Tuesday voted 3-2 to recommend to Town Meeting that it support his proposal to exclude Plymouth from the […]
Posted inEnvironment & Health
He inherited a deadly condition that took his mother’s life. But buoyed by family and friends, Anthony Boccalini is hopeful.
Anthony Boccalini, suffering from a rare inherited condition that caused his mother Judy’s death three years ago, is hoping for a kidney transplant that could save his life. Boccalini, 41, is the youngest of six siblings in the well-known Plymouth family. Four of them have the dominant gene that causes the deadly condition, a form […]
Posted inHistory & Architecture
Streams of consciousness: Exploring the routes of Plymouth waterways
The last phase of the restoration of Plymouth’s Town Brook is underway. Work began in 2002 with the removal of dams from the brook’s 19th century industrial past. The last phase of the project will include the dredging of Jenny Pond (which is happening now), reconstruction of the pond bridge, a new fish ladder and […]
Posted inEnvironment & Health
Holtec owns a valuable 1,600-acre parcel around the nuclear power plant site. What’s to become of it?
On a recent day, Mark Withington walked along precarious ice-encrusted trails in the Chiltonville woods to a clearing at the boundary of the land owned by Holtec International, the company that is decommissioning the former Pilgrim nuclear power plant in Manomet. Withington has a vision for the nearly 1,600 acres of mostly forested property around […]
Posted inBusiness
State seizes waterfront restaurant over $228,000 in unpaid taxes
Carmen’s Café Nicole, a popular breakfast-and-lunch restaurant on Water Street, has been seized by the Massachusetts Department of Revenue for failure to pay taxes. According to the department’s website, the owner, Aria Capone, owes the state more than $228,000. Capone said in an email Thursday that she has been working with an attorney and a […]
Posted inEnvironment & Health
Saquish: So close, yet so far away for most
As a newcomer to Plymouth, I’ve been studying maps of the town as I try and get my bearings. I’ve long been fascinated with maps, and especially geographic oddities. For example, only two counties in the United States have discontiguous parts. Norfolk County, Massachusetts is one. Brookline and Cohasset are both part of Norfolk County, […]
Posted inPolice & Fire
Plymouth police officers to start wearing body cams
It’s taken more time than expected and a lot more money than initially set aside, but Plymouth police officers are finally being outfitted with body-worn cameras. The department, which plans to unveil the cameras soon, hailed their arrival in a Facebook post as “a big step forward.” “These cameras will enhance public safety, strengthen trust […]
Posted inEnvironment & Health
‘The entire hospital is short-staffed’
A man showed up at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth’s emergency room one morning last month suffering from Covid and struggling to breathe. He remained in the ER for more than 12 hours while waiting for an intensive care unit bed. But at 1 a.m., the patient went into cardiac arrest, according to a report […]