Both of Plymouth’s high school football teams are on the road this week, but when they return to play on their home fields, it will back to “Friday Night Lights.” The state Department of Public Health on Wednesday said it is lowering the town’s risk level for the deadly eastern equine encephalitis from high to […]
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Posted inGovernment
Veterans services nonprofit opens center in downtown Plymouth
A nonprofit that provides behavioral health, housing, employment, and re-entry services for veterans officially opened in downtown Plymouth Tuesday. The Boston-based Volunteers of America of Massachusetts, known as VOAMASS, held a traditional ribbon cutting ceremony to mark the launch of its Plymouth Area Veterans Center at 20 North Park Ave., in collaboration with the Massachusetts […]
Posted inBeer Town
Second Wind has been trying to open a Main St. taproom for five years. What’s the holdup?
If you’ve walked past the semi-rundown building at 11 Main St. any time over the past five years, you may have noticed a small handwritten sign in the window proclaiming the future opening of a Second Wind taproom on the first floor. (It already has a popular but tiny brewery tucked into a driveway space […]
Posted inCulture
An afternoon in the park: Celebrate the official opening of Stephens Field
You’re invited to submit a listing for this column: It’s easy. Just email your information to listings@plymouthindependent.org, at least 10 days in advance. A good quality photo without type on the image – sent as a jpeg attachment – helps. Have you been to the newly remade Stephens Field? Since its “soft opening” in early […]
Posted inEducation
New teachers contract includes ‘largest raises ever’
The Plymouth School Committee this week approved a new contract that will increase most teachers’ pay by 13½ percent over three years, according to the town’s teachers union. Members of the 700-member Education Association of Plymouth earlier this month “overwhelmingly” approved the contract, which will be retroactive to July, union president Tom Pinto said. The […]
Posted inBusiness
Neighbors sound off about South St. apartment project
Developer Rick Vayo’s proposal to build 24 one-bedroom apartments classified as affordable across from the library on South Street ran into opposition from speakers at a Planning Board meeting Wednesday night. Twenty-one neighbors and other Plymouth residents spoke at the meeting, all of them in opposition to the plan, which already has support from four […]
Posted inBusiness Beat
Mini golf or a flea market at Benny’s Plaza? No, but here are some ideas that might work.
Editor’s note: Unlike our news stories, this column also includes the author’s opinions. “Change” is the word of the year in Plymouth. Maybe the word of the decade. Plymouth is changing. Plymouth has changed. It’s changed too much or too little. It’s changed for the worse, for the better. Embrace it, rail against it, help […]
Posted inPolice & Fire
Marshfield man guilty of murder in 2019 crash that killed 13-year-old Plymouth girl
A Plymouth County jury Tuesday convicted a Marshfield man who was drunk when he sped through a red light and plowed into an SUV, killing a 13-year-old Plymouth girl and severely injuring her mother and a friend. Gregory Goodsell, 36, was found guilty of all counts related to the 2019 crash that killed Claire Zisserson, […]
Posted inEducation
‘We saw no signs of anything’
Pamela and David Murphy sit at a table in the dining room of their Manomet home. On the mantel, and above it, are photos and a striking pencil drawing of their son, Matt, including one with his dog, Willy. The gentle giant rottweiler died the year before Matt took his own life at age 20. […]
Posted inCulture Calendar
She’s trying to get more people excited about poetry
You’re invited to submit a listing for this column: It’s easy. Just email your information to listings@plymouthindependent.org, at least 10 days in advance. A good quality photo without type on the image – sent as a jpg attachment – helps. Plymouth’s poet laureate Miriam O’Neal wants to get people excited about poetry. In a monthly […]