Human remains found along Route 3 in Plymouth have been identified as those of Sandra Crispo, a Hanson woman who was reported missing in August 2019. On March 6, 2025, a hunter searching the woods for deer antlers, found a human skull in a trail near the breakdown lane between exits 13 and 15 of […]
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Why did Town Meeting reject a 1% budget cut?
You’ve heard the saying “kick the can down the road.” Politicians have fashioned it into an art form, especially in Washington, where decisions on thorny issues like Social Security and a ballooning national deficit are endlessly deferred. Some say Plymouth’s own legislators – its 162 elected Town Meeting members – acted the same way last […]
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Political feud at airport escalates
Town Manager Derek Brindisi has ordered an immediate halt of all town services at Plymouth Municipal Airport, escalating his ongoing feud with airport commissioners over management of the facility. The new policy follows an April superior court judge’s order instructing him to stop getting involved in airport business. Brindisi last week instructed town employees to […]
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Shuttered Benny’s may become assisted living facility
New buyers for the long-shuttered Benny’s Plaza are expected Tuesday to announce plans to transform it into an assisted living facility with two mixed-use commercial buildings and some public green space. Pioppi’s Liquors, which now operates at the plaza, would remain. A partnership of HYM Investment Group of Boston and the NexCore Group of Denver […]
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Group announces effort to abandon Town Meeting
Taking the name “Yes on Charter Change,” a group hoping to push Plymouth Town Meeting into the history books is now public, with a fundraising committee and a Facebook page soliciting donations. The group filed with the Plymouth town clerk establishing itself as a ballot question committee with town residents Leonard Levin as chair and […]
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Charged with faking death, woman pleads not guilty
A Plymouth woman who allegedly faked her own death to avoid relatively minor criminal charges was ordered held on $50,000 cash bail Tuesday. Shannon Elizabeth Wilson, 44, is accused of using false identities when questioned by police, making false reports and failing to appear for several court dates. She pleaded not guilty Tuesday to multiple […]
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Downtown changes bloom with spring
Aside from peeling paint and weather-worn facades, the effects of a brutal winter have faded from the downtown area. Restaurants and shops are emerging from the year’s slowest stretch – almost as fast as people stripped off cold-weather clothes for a few days earlier this month. Merchants and restaurateurs hope to rebound from what was […]
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Swap Shop to reopen, offering free recycled goods
You’re invited to submit a listing for this column: It’s easy. Email your information to listings@plymouthindependent.orgat least 10 days in advance. A good quality photo without type on the image – sent as a jpeg attachment – helps. Ken Stone, chair of the Recycling Committee, said the Swap Shop at the old Cedarville transfer station, […]
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Van Cott admits to schools’ fraud scheme
Plymouth schools’ former director of food services who stole thousands of dollars of food and equipment has signed a plea deal with federal prosecutors in exchange for a prison sentence of less than a year. Patrick Van Cott, 64, of Sandwich, was charged earlier this week in a 11-year fraud scheme in which he resold […]
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Fatal crash closes State Road for hours Friday
A two-car crash following a police chase on State Road near the intersection of Plimoth Patuxet Highway left one driver dead and traffic backed up on both roads for hours Friday morning. According to Plymouth Police, the 9:45 a.m. crash was reported by multiple witnesses. Both drivers were taken to area hospitals, where one since […]