At least one of the three citizens’ petitions ruled “out of order” for Saturday’s Town Meeting is back on the agenda after its supporters agreed to drop a late change to their original petition. Plymo...

Saturday’s Town Meeting could turn especially contentious after all three citizens’ petitions were barred from consideration as improper and out of order by Town Moderator Steven Triffletti. The citiz...

Pulte Homes has backed out of its plan to build a condominium project near the North Plymouth waterfront — a proposal that sparked fierce opposition among neighbors and town officials. “Pulte does not...

Pulte Homes has backed out of its plan to build a condominium project near the North Plymouth waterfront — a proposal that sparked fierce opposition among neighbors and town officials. “Pulte does not...

The chain-link fencing that recently went up around the town Training Green might make it look like an EPA hazardous waste site to passersby. But while they and neighborhood dogs deprived of a favorit...

If today were April 1, readers might assume this story is a joke. But no. The now-infamous Water Street sewer project is in trouble, again. In the area closest to the latest construction zone, one cor...

If today were April 1, readers might assume this story is a joke. But no. The now-infamous Water Street sewer project is in trouble, again. In the area closest to the latest construction zone, one cor...

The former Plymouth Schools food service director caught in a decade-long scheme to steal equipment and food from the students’ lunch program was sentenced Wednesday to six months in prison by a feder...

The Plymouth teenager who set off fireworks at Harvard Medical School on Halloween night was sentenced last week to three years of probation and ordered to pay about $28,500 in damages. Logan Patterso...

How can the town stop the proliferation of affordable housing complexes that have strained services and roiled neighborhoods over the last decade? By building more affordable housing. That was the pit...

Plymouth’s oldest craft brewery is closing its doors at the end of the year, the latest casualty in a nationwide decline in the popularity of independent breweries. Mayflower Brewing Company, which wa...

This time, there was no calm before the storm. Thursday afternoon, more than a day out from a rare September nor’easter expected to pummel the Massachusetts coast, Plymouth Harbor already was speckled...

Airport Commissioner Karin Goulian showed up at a Select Board meeting earlier this month with an unusual request. Goulian, who along with her husband runs aviation businesses at the Plymouth Municipa...

A recreational vehicle plowed through the seawall on Water Street Wednesday morning, leaving a gaping hole town officials say could take several days to repair. In the meantime, with a potential nor’e...

Select Board Chair Deb Iaquinto admonished her fellow board members Tuesday about their continued bickering from the dais, announcing a ban on them directly addressing each other at their weekly meeti...

Why didn’t somebody do this sooner? That was my reaction last year when I heard about a boutique hotel planned for the heart of downtown. It’s no surprise the man behind it is Rick Vayo, a developer w...

Just a month after the Select Board passed its new conduct policy mandating civility on the dais, another episode of incivility erupted at this week’s meeting at West Elementary School. This time it w...

Faced with an uprising of outspoken neighbors, a deadline quickly slipping away, and talk of the land going back on the market, Pulte Homes may have abandoned its plan for a condo project in North Ply...

Town officials are calling a planned $1.5 million transformation behind Nathaniel Morton Elementary School a creative solution to a growing shortage of downtown parking during the summer season. The t...

In a widely expected ruling, the state on Tuesday rejected Holtec International’s appeal of an order preventing it from discharging treated radioactive wastewater into Cape Cod Bay as the company deco...

The bizarre story of Plymouth Schools’ former food services director, who dragged heavy refrigerators out the back door and stole food from the kids’ lunch program as part of a decade long larceny sch...

An alleged “sweetheart deal” with the newly hired Plymouth County administrator is being challenged in court as excessive and illegal. Plymouth County Treasurer Thomas O’Brien filed suit against his c...

For the first time in over 100 years, the Jewish community in Plymouth will observe the High Holy Days without a home of its own.   In June, Congregation Beth Jacob (CBJ) sold its historic synagogue a...

It wasn’t yet 9 a.m., but Jennifer Lynn Kane was already busy at work. The CPA liked to arrive early at her office before clients started calling and problems began popping up. Only 26, the Plymouth n...

In case you haven’t been paying attention, take notice: You’re being watched. Privacy is at a premium in Plymouth and most of the world. Cameras are everywhere, from the front doors of homes to stores...

The Plymouth Independent welcomes its newest staff member Emily Spatz, who will be enhancing its coverage of education and other relevant issues around town. A recent graduate of Northeastern Universi...

Town officials told their bosses on the Select Board Tuesday the town has doled out nearly $40 million in taxpayer-funded project grants over the last 23 years without the proper oversight and preserv...

A longtime Plymouth veterinarian – already facing abuse charges from an employee at his practice – was arrested again last week on unrelated drug charges. Arther “Rick” Newman, 77, described on social...

The first shards of morning light had not appeared when the call came a week ago. Kaisang Ghale and his wife, Dechen, were still sleeping. A cousin was on the line from the Rasuwa region of Nepal wher...

Unlike hotly contested primaries two years ago, most races for seats in the state senate and house to represent Plymouth on Beacon Hill are uncontested in Tuesday’s primary election. The incumbent, Dy...

The weekly Farmers Market on the South Street library’s lawn went on as usual Thursday afternoon. Vendors sold organic fruits, vegetables, and homemade goods under pop-up canopies pitched across the t...

The leader of Pilgrim Hall Museum says claims the museum has not done everything required to preserve the historic integrity of the downtown building are misguided and untrue. In an interview with the...

A brand-new code of conduct adopted to promote civility among Town officials is being tested after a Select Board member filed the first-ever complaint under the new policy against one of his board co...

A new $6 million project to make downtown Plymouth safer and more climate friendly could start before the end of the year after the Town recently received a state grant for half the improvements. Down...

This is the second installment of a two-part opinion column on nuclear power in Plymouth. How soon we forget. Or maybe we didn’t know much to begin with. Those two thoughts pop into my head when I hea...

Millions of dollars in community preservation projects around town were completed over the past two decades despite a “systemic” failure to follow required steps designed to protect historic buildings...

The owner of the now demolished Full Sail bar on White Horse Beach this week sued the town, alleging the price Plymouth paid to take the property by eminent domain was “grossly inadequate.” The town o...

Mention piping plovers in some circles around here and people might give you the bird. For two decades, the town has been compelled by the state to monitor vehicle access to the outer stretch of Plymo...

The Plymouth Select board narrowly approved a new civil conduct policy after a long debate Tuesday night that at times lacked civility. By a contentious 3-2 vote, the measure passed requiring all town...

Plymouth County Sheriff Joseph McDonald was ordered this week to turn over to The American Civil Liberties Union records detailing medical treatment of hundreds of federal immigration detainees at the...

This is the first of a two-part column on nuclear power in Plymouth. The 1972 opening of the Pilgrim nuclear power plant might have been the worst thing to happen in Plymouth’s long history. It ushere...

But the panel temporarily put their ruling on hold to allow the president to seek relief from the Supreme Court.

The Yes on Charter Change group’s campaign to scuttle the Town Meeting form of government in Plymouth launched its public signature drive Wednesday night. About 150 people, including several current a...

A teenage lifeguard at Plymouth Beach has accused Select Board member Bill Keohan of refusing his order to wear a life jacket while paddleboarding near the shore. What began as an allegedly angry conf...

A politically fraught decision to euthanize a dog set off tempers on the town’s Select Board on Tuesday, with two members recusing themselves and a third voting no despite the pit bull terrier’s long ...