As town officials fight against a maligned 40b condominium project proposed for North Plymouth, they are working on a separate plan that would help them gain control over future development in Plymouth. A statehouse committee this week is scheduled to review the town’s land bank proposal, which Town Meeting approved in October 2024 by a […]
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Posted inCulture Calendar
Here’s what you need to know about Thanksgiving parade weekend
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. People love a parade, even in November. Last year the America’s Hometown Thanksgiving Parade proved it […]
Posted inEnvironment & Health
How did a giant wind turbine blade end up in a bog?
A week after a blade from a 300-foot-tall wind turbine fell into a cranberry bog on Head of the Bay Road, RWE, the company that owns the project, says it’s already begun an “exhaustive” analysis of the incident with Spanish company Siemens Gamesa, which built and maintains the equipment. “The project has been shut down […]
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The Plymouth Foundation mostly works out of the public eye. Its backers say that’s a good thing.
Should a private entity do the public’s business behind closed doors? The Plymouth Foundation was created in 2001 to straddle the worlds of public policy and private development. (Read a primer on how the foundation came to be and evolved.) But that approach is being questioned by some because of the foundation’s role in the […]
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Plymouth high school football headed to Fenway
If you were saddened by the lack of a Fall Classic for the Red Sox at Fenway Park this year, take heart. Plymouth’s two high school football teams are readying to help fill the void. On the day before Thanksgiving, Plymouth North and South will continue a nearly 30-year rivalry with a game at Fenway. […]
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What a difference a year makes
When I moved to Plymouth a little less than a year ago, the Independent asked me to write a series of columns. The charge was to explore the town from a newcomer’s perspective. From Buttermilk Bay in the town’s far southwest corner to Saquish, its most northeasterly point, I wandered through preserves and along paths, […]
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‘Nobody in the community wants it’
Town leaders looking for ways to block a proposed North Plymouth condominium project are urging the sellers of the land on which it would be built to back out of the deal and work with them to come up with an alternate plan. Developer Pulte Homes’ proposed 163-unit project — which comes before the town’s […]
Posted inEnvironment & Health
Holtec appears unlikely to win appeal of radioactive water ruling
An appeals officer for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection is recommending that the state uphold its decision to deny Holtec Decommissioning International’s request to dump more than 800,000 gallons of treated radioactive water from the former Pilgrim nuclear power station into Cape Cod Bay. Holtec is decommissioning the Pilgrim plant in Manomet, which […]
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Golden, Canty clash again during Select Board meeting
Less than two months after Select Board chair David Golden promised “a restoration of collegiality,” tensions between him and former chair Kevin Canty rose to the surface again during this week’s board meeting. The latest clash began when Golden, clearly directing his remarks to Canty, asked board members not to repeatedly ask during meetings that […]
Posted inPolice & Fire
‘I will carry this sorrow every day for the rest of my life’
It was a bittersweet end to a marathon court case that would decide if a Dorchester man was responsible for the overdose death of a 23-year-old woman at a Plymouth sober house. The defendant, William McNeill, 39, pleaded guilty this week in Plymouth Superior Court to manslaughter and drug distribution charges — almost seven years […]