When Steven Karidoyanes drove to Plymouth for the first time in the early 1990s as a candidate for music director of the Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra, he remembers cresting the rise on Samoset Street and catching his first glimpse of the ocean. “My lungs filled up with air,” he recalled. “I thought, ‘I have to have […]
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Mayflower II to set sail for Boston’s tall ship parade
The Mayflower II is a familiar sight along Plymouth’s waterfront, but this month the historic vessel will leave her home berth to take part in one of the nation’s largest maritime commemorations. From July 9-17, Mayflower II will travel to Boston for Sail Boston 2026 (Sail 250), a centerpiece of our state’s America 250 celebration […]
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Gurnet Light changes owners, lifting caretaker restrictions
Standing beside the keeper’s cottage on the tip of Gurnet Point, with Plymouth Harbor spread out below and Provincetown visible across the bay, Dolly Snow Bicknell began her tour not with a history lesson, but with a poem. Written by Edgar Guest, The Lightkeeper Wonders imagines a lighthouse keeper confronting automation after decades of tending […]
Posted inEnvironment & Health
It’s the heat and the humidity, to the extreme
You don’t need us to tell you how oppressive the weather is going to be deep into the holiday weekend – TV news stations have been hyping the heatwave nonstop since Sunday. Nonetheless, a quick review: Thursday and Friday are expected to be the worst days of this sweltering stretch, with temperatures in Plymouth reaching […]
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Construction around Jenney Pond to last all year
A few months behind schedule, the $20.9 million project to restore Town Brook near Jenney Pond and the Plimoth Grist Mill to something closer to a pristine state – where the river herring can run much as they did hundreds of years ago – is expected to finish by the Spring. As for now, the […]
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Plans for Salvation Army building are a perfect pitch for downtown
The Salvation Army building atop Coles Hill is a small piece of Plymouth’s housing puzzle. But it matters. I don’t mean to leave you hanging, but a bit of backstory is needed before we get to “here’s why.” The Carver Street building has sat empty for nearly a decade – through and beyond a red-hot […]
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July 4 festivities expected to draw thousands
You’re invited to submit a listing for this column: It’s easy. Email your information to listings@plymouthindependent.or at least 10 days in advance. A good quality photo without type on the image – sent as a jpeg attachment – helps. From an early morning road race to an evening concert and fireworks over Plymouth Harbor, the […]
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Repaving to start along stretch of Samoset St., Carver Road
A stretch of one of the town’s most traveled roadways is getting a makeover just as the summer season kicks into gear. Starting Monday the town and its outside vendor will begin repaving about three quarters of a mile of Samoset Street from Sixteen Twenty Drive – past Walgreens, just before Marc Drive – to […]
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Select Board under fire on Landers deal
More than a dozen Cedarville residents showed up at the Select Board meeting Tuesday to vent disappointment at a recent board vote on a nearby land deal some said was fraught with conflict of interest, undue secrecy and a lack of integrity. The ire was directed at a June 9 vote clearing the way for […]
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Plymouth to celebrate role in Revolutionary fervor
Long before the Continental Congress issued the Declaration of Independence, Plymouth was already a hot bed of revolutionary fervor. Patriots had hauled a chunk of Plymouth Rock to Town Square to protest British taxation without representation and exchanged cannon fire with a Royal Navy warship entering the harbor. Those still loyal to the Crown were […]