(This report has been edited to correct the name of the school where Evelyn Dunbar taught) There was a time in Plymouth when Saturday night meant dressing up, heading out and dancing until your feet hurt. “Clubbing” was booming, live bands filled nightclubs, and from 1979 to 1993, one of the places to be on […]
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Posted inBusiness
With The Drew, downtown finally gets the hotel it needed
Why didn’t somebody do this sooner? That was my reaction last year when I heard about a boutique hotel planned for the heart of downtown. It’s no surprise the man behind it is Rick Vayo, a developer who has set about to reimagine Plymouth’s once drab business district. The town has two mid-range full-service hotels […]
Posted inEducation
‘Very amazing’ whale watch brings back a field trip long lost to Plymouth students
A group of about 100 fifth-grade children milled about the boat with notebooks and pencils, writing notes and sketching their observations as they watched dozens of whales swim just feet away in the federally protected Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. “Whale breath stinks,” said 10-year-old Zamara Moore, adding to the list of things she and […]
Posted inCulture Calendar
Sunday Serenades series expanding
Sunday afternoons have come alive at the Spire Center for Performing Arts. With its new Sunday Serenades series, the Spire is expanding beyond its busy weekday and weekend evening schedules to offer 3 p.m. performances ranging from classical chamber music and jazz to Broadway, pop, big band, classical crossover and more. This week, the featured […]
Posted inPolice & Fire
Plymouth couple indicted in alleged child rape
A Plymouth couple accused of repeatedly raping the teenaged child in their care was indicted by a Plymouth County grand jury on Friday on multiple counts of aggravated rape and other charges. The charges carry a possible life sentence. Daniel Forand, 37, and his wife Samantha Pelrine, 31, a Plymouth police officer, first made headlines […]
Posted inGovernment
Embattled Pulte Homes condo project could be history
Faced with an uprising of outspoken neighbors, a deadline quickly slipping away, and talk of the land going back on the market, Pulte Homes may have abandoned its plan for a condo project in North Plymouth. The news would mark the end of a yearlong fight by neighbors to kill the project they said would […]
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Public parking at school called ‘win-win’
Town officials are calling a planned $1.5 million transformation behind Nathaniel Morton Elementary School a creative solution to a growing shortage of downtown parking during the summer season. The town’s parking agency has worked with school officials to work out an exchange: Park Plymouth provides the money for a new and safer playground, enhanced landscaping, […]
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Schools audit suggests oversight reforms in wake of Van Cott lunch program fraud
The bizarre story of Plymouth Schools’ former food services director, who dragged heavy refrigerators out the back door and stole food from the kids’ lunch program as part of a decade long larceny scheme, has raised questions of failed oversight since his 2025 arrest. On Monday, the elected members of the town’s School Committee heard […]
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Chronic sewer line failures bring Water Street barricades … again
For the fourth time in as many years, construction is once again disrupting Water Street, one more last-ditch effort to build a new sewer line to replace the aging pipe running under a portion of the harbor. Work began Monday, running from the rotary near the visitor’s center to the intersection of Chilton Street. Water […]
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Charter commission candidate’s ‘fun’ photo doesn’t mean he’s not serious
Wrestling Brewster is all about revamping Plymouth’s form of government to better suit the town’s present and future. That’s why he’s running for a seat on a nine-member charter commission likely to be on the ballot next May – a crucial step toward putting proposed changes before voters, who would get the final say. So […]