Drivers for the Greater Attleboro-Taunton Regional Transit Authority walked off the job Monday, stranding thousands of riders, including many in Plymouth. Both sides in the ongoing labor dispute apologized to customers who rely on the GATRA bus service, which offers rides to residents all over town. “We want our transit team members at work as […]
Tag: Feature
Posted inCulture Calendar
Morgan James finds the soul of AC/DC, Metallica, and Pearl Jam
You’re invited to submit a listing for this column: It’s easy. 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. Imagine hearing a classic AC/DC song covered by a female singer and delivered in a soul […]
Posted inBusiness
After 14 years, New World Tavern to go dark
The New World Tavern, faced with mounting financial and legal problems, is closing permanently on Sunday, creating a void in the downtown restaurant scene and leaving the town without a key music venue. The restaurant, owned by Karl Heine for 14 years, announced the impending shutdown in a Friday Facebook post. “We are writing this […]
Posted inEnvironment & Health
‘Swap shop’ aims to boost reuse of household goods
Wondering what to do with that mixer you bought to make bread during the pandemic now that you’re not using it anymore? Thinking of picking up a guitar, but aren’t ready to invest in one? Here’s a deal that might be hard to resist. Starting Saturday, Plymouth residents will be able to turn in items they […]
Posted inBusiness
GATRA bus drivers are set to strike
Drivers for GATRA, the transit system that provides bus service to Plymouth residents, have voted to strike — saying their pay is so low that some of them are forced to live in their cars. Charles Ryan, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1548, on Tuesday said he’s sorry if a stoppage inconveniences riders, […]
Posted inPolice & Fire
ICE agents pull man from car in front of middle school students
Plymouth public school bus #8 was stopped on Standish Avenue, at the intersection of Cherry Street, shortly before 8 a.m. Tuesday when the middle school students aboard it got an eyewitness view of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents’ aggressive tactics. As the children looked on, they watched ICE officials pull a distraught man out […]
Posted inPolice & Fire
U.S. customs officer charged with posing as Plymouth’s town manager
It was an incident that might have been dismissed as a silly prank had the prankster not posed as a well-known local official. A man accused of filing a phony complaint with Plymouth police inexplicably claimed to be Town Manager Derek Brindisi. The story gets stranger. The alleged impostor turned out to be a federal […]
Posted inPolice & Fire
‘The greatest danger Plymouth faces today’
This is the second installment of a two-part series on the Great Fire of 1900 and the prospects of such a blaze taking place today. In August, local fire officials kept an anxious eye on Hurricane Erin as it moved north along the East Coast. Most predictions had the storm staying steering clear of New […]
Posted inGovernment
In a stunning move, Canty ousted as Select Board chair
In what appeared to be a preordained move, Select Board Vice Chair David Golden Tuesday became its new chair by enlisting the support of fellow members Dick Quintal and Bill Keohan to oust Kevin Canty from the position. The unusual action – which played out in dramatic fashion during an “on the road” meeting at […]
Posted inHistory & Architecture
Plymouth’s Black and White Club has a colorful history
There’s no doubt that my love of history came from three Plymouth public school teachers. Warren Valente and Charles Hussey taught me history, and Robert Bradley awoke in me what it meant to be from Plymouth. It’s nowonder that when I made the painful decision to abandon my dream of earning a degree to teach […]