Thomas Dolby is coming to the Spire Center for the Arts? Along with longtime David Bowie bass player and singer Gail Ann Dorsey? Am I reading this correctly? That was my reaction to seeing the listing for Dolby’s (sold out) April 14 show at the 280-seat downtown venue. His biggest hits, “She Blinded Me With […]
Tag: Feature
Posted inHistory & Architecture
Waterfront’s evolving architecture is drastic
One of my favorite corny movies is “Overboard,” starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell. Hawn plays a wealthy yacht owner, while Russell, her partner in real life, portrays a small-town carpenter brought to the yacht for repairs. Hawn, unsatisfied with Russell’s work, throws him and his tools overboard. Later Hawn falls overboard, strikes her head, […]
Posted inPolice & Fire
Plymouth couple is charged with repeatedly raping their foster child
A Plymouth police officer and her husband were charged Thursday with repeatedly raping a teenaged foster child living in their home for years. But the couple, through their attorneys, insisted the allegations were the fabrications of a troubled young man with a grudge. Plymouth Assistant District Attorney James Duffy said the alleged assaults took place […]
Posted inPolice & Fire
Plymouth man arrested after dramatic confrontation
A Plymouth man wielding a kitchen knife allegedly held his estranged wife captive early Tuesday morning, refusing to surrender even after Plymouth police had him cornered. The terrifying incident, captured on police body camera footage, shows one of the officers running up a flight of stairs, his gun pointed at the man, Nicholas Munroe, and […]
Posted inPolice & Fire
Hand sentenced to life in 40-year-old murder
A Plymouth County jury Tuesday found Michael Hand guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Kingston teenager Tracy Gilpin 40 years ago. It took the jury less than six hours to reach a verdict, solving a cold case that had stumped investigators for decades. Hand, now 69, was immediately sentenced by Plymouth Superior Court […]
Posted inPolice & Fire
Hand murder trial set to go to the jury
Forty years after the body of Kingston teenager Tracy Gilpin was found in Myles Standish state forest, a Plymouth County jury this week will decide whether Michael Hand was her killer. With no DNA evidence, no witnesses and no forensics linking Hand to the murder, prosecutors will rely almost entirely on Hand’s own statements to […]
Posted inCulture
‘Most walkable’ town, says Boston Magazine
(This column has been edited to address an incorrect assertion that Massachusetts Audubon’s Tidmarsh Wildlife Sanctuary was the first cranberry bog in the nation restored to its natural state.) I was sitting in my dentist’s office in Needham the other day flipping through the latest issue of Boston Magazine, the annual “Top Places to Live” […]
Posted inGovernment
Charges fly in Select Board race
The way Dick Quintal tells it, Select Board candidate and former Plymouth police officer Scott Vecchi went to Quintal’s produce business recently with a proposition: If Quintal helped him get back on the force, Vecchi would drop out of the race. Quintal, an incumbent up for re-election in May, would face one less competitor, and […]
Posted inGovernment
ZBA delays vote on Pulte condo project
Rattled by relentless pressure from a large group of vocal opponents to a North Plymouth condo proposal, members of the town’s zoning board of appeals took to their microphones Monday night to lament their helplessness to stop it. Their dramatic pleas were met with boos from a vocal crowd that has protested for months in […]
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40 years later, a teenager girl’s murder goes to trial
It took more than 30 years for Michael Hand to be charged with the 1986 murder of Tracy Gilpin in Plymouth’s Myles Standish State Forest. And it took another eight years for Hand, arrested in 2018, to stand trial for her killing. A Plymouth County jury is finally hearing testimony in Brockton Superior Court in […]