Everyone can agree that Plymouth’s precarious aquifer, which supplies the town’s drinking water, needs to be protected. But local activists warn that an increasing number of industrial, commercial, and residential development projects, as well as sand-mining operations, are putting the quality of our water at increasing risk. Town officials say they are trying to […]
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Posted inHistory & Architecture
Do you know where Plymouth’s Tweenit section is?
A few years after my graduation from college in 1986, the Massachusetts economy sputtered and died. I decided to follow in the steps of my grandparents and seek my future in California. In 1959, my grandparents had moved to San Diego; just over 30 years later I found myself in San Francisco. I took a […]
Posted inCulture
Pilgrim Festival Chorus goes deep with Brahms’s operatic ‘Requiem’
How to submit a listing for this column:It’s easy. Just email Robert Knox at robert@plymouthindependent.org. A good quality photo without type on the image – sent as a jpeg attachment – helps. We’ll accommodate as many listings as possible. The Pilgrim Festival Chorus will present a single work in its spring concert, Johannes Brahms’ “Ein […]
Posted inGovernment
Town says the nonprofit Farmhouse violates rules, lacks permits
The town has ordered the owner of a nonprofit known as The Farmhouse to stop using buildings on his 10-acre property to run educational programs, saying he lacks proper permits and violates the state’s fire code. In recent weeks, Plymouth South High School, MAP Academy, and EdTV, the Plymouth Public Schools’ video education production program, […]
Posted inWe Have Questions
Patty Cho knew nothing about running a restaurant. Nine years later, she’s learned a few things.
Patty Cho is in between jobs. Not that she’s unemployed. Hardly. It’s early afternoon on a spring Tuesday and Cho is making the walk from her Kogi Bar and Grill to Shikku Hot Pot, the restaurant she and her husband, Thuyet Phan, are scrambling to open in May. It’s a few doors away at 18 […]
Posted inOn Land & Sea
The herring are running their own marathon in Plymouth
It’s time to celebrate the town’s amazing – and complex – relationship with herring. In 1889, William Root Bliss author of “The Colonial Times on Buzzard’s Bay,” wrote about the annual herring runs of the Plymouth Colony: In early spring alewives came into the rivers, and for a while formed the staple of trade and […]
Posted inBusiness
What’s going on at that giant excavation site off Route 3 South?
It may look like the most awesome dirt bike track around, but the vast excavation site visible off the southbound lanes of Route 3 is not for fun and games. It is the largest expansion of the Plymouth Industrial Park in recent years. “My goal is to build it all out and bring in as […]
Posted inGovernment
Town meeting OK’s spending on shelter, affordable housing
After a 90-minute debate, Town Meeting members Monday night overwhelmingly approved partially funding a homeless shelter that’s planned for Plymouth Industrial Park. The measure – which passed by a 98 to 36 margin, with three abstentions – culminated months of discussion over whether Plymouth should use $3 million in Community Preservation money toward the $7 […]
Posted inGovernment
Town Meeting gets down to business
Plymouth town meeting members waded through a long agenda Saturday — making it through 28 articles before adjourning until Monday night with two controversial issues still to be decided. The town’s elected representatives, who attended either in person at Plymouth North High School or remotely, approved almost everything that came before them. Members authorized a […]
Posted inGovernment
In advance of Town Meeting, proponents of shelter funding make their case
Supporters of a plan to build a homeless shelter for up to 26 families in the Plymouth Industrial Park have faced a barrage of questions at precinct caucuses ahead of Saturday’s Town Meeting. The Community Preservation Committee is proposing to authorize $3 million in taxpayer funds to go towards renovation of an office building […]