Plymouth Independent

09/01/2025

Longtime investigative reporter’s literary success is no mystery: Plus a Zen group celebration, ‘The Roses’ at Plimoth Cinema, First Fridays returns, the Sweet Remains at the Spire, and many more happenings.

You’re invited to submit a listing for this column: It’s easy. Email your information to [email protected] at least 10 days in advance. A good quality photo without type on the image – sent as a jpeg attachment – helps. Multiple Emmy winner, and investigative television report...

08/29/2025

Our latest Your Art Here submission is from Helen Churchill. “This is a photo of Walt Powell, on Burial Hill, as part of the Pilgrim Progress - a reenactment based on a 1627 description of the Pilgrims gathering for worship,” she writes. “This [annual] reenactment began in 1921.”

08/29/2025

Second mosquito tests positive for West Nile Virus: Pesticide spraying took place this week in parts of North and South Plymouth.

As summer starts to fade, be extra careful if you’re outdoors at dawn or dusk. The state Department of Public Health this week said a second mosquito in Plymouth has tested positive for West Nile Virus, a serious disease that can be transmitted to humans. Plymouth County Mosquito Control used a tr...

08/29/2025

Local chef uses hammer to fend off attacker inside his home: He was awoken by an apparently delusional intruder. The suspect, who is free, says he had been ‘hearing voices.’

Imagine being jolted awake by someone screaming. At first you think it’s your roommate. Then you realize the voice is a stranger’s. That’s what happened at about 8 a.m. on August 15 when Mike Wisdom found an unhinged man inside his North Plymouth home.   A vicious assault and struggle took pl...

08/28/2025

Town claims ‘victory’ in battle over Atlantic Country Club. For now. Developer pulls offer to buy it, likely delaying any project for at least two years.

The town has succeeded, at least for now, in blocking a large residential development on the site of the Atlantic Country Club in South Plymouth. Select Board chair Kevin Canty said Wednesday that he was told by the town’s lawyer that the club’s prospective buyer had withdrawn his offer to purch...

08/27/2025

Downtown fixture New World Tavern fighting to survive: Its owner owes more than $131,000 in state meals taxes amid what he says has been a slow summer season.

Karl Heine is in a predicament many restaurateurs face as the industry struggles to regain its footing since the pandemic. He’s trying to save his business, The New World Tavern, amid a decline in tourism, fewer young customers, higher prices for goods, a shortage of workers, and – most importan...

08/26/2025

This Your Art Here submission is a photography by Eileen Lawton. “I took this photo on the pier across from Wood’s Seafood at sunset using my iPhone,” she writes. “It represents the quintessential fishing village that we are so fortunate to experience here on our beautiful harbor.”

08/26/2025

P**f goes Proof 22: The downtown restaurant surrenders its liquor license and is permanently closed.

After offering several explanations for what its owners characterized as a temporary shutdown, Proof 22 on Main Street is now permanently closed. Peter Lucido and Paul Tupa, “have decided not to re-open the … establishment, and they hereby relinquish their liquor license to the Town of Plymouth ...

08/26/2025

Making a trek to Oliver Neck. (Yes, it’s in Plymouth.) A part of town few people know about, and even fewer go to.

In 1928, Doubleday published “The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod,” by the naturalist Henry Beston. It became a classic of nature literature. Beston drew up the plans for a small beach cottage in 1925, intending to use it occasionally. He soon found he didn’t wan...

08/25/2025

They will, they will rock you: ‘One Night of Queen’ returns: Plus, a Taylor Swift tribute, an oyster shucking class, ‘The Roses’ at Plimoth Cinema, Asleep at the Wheel at the Spire, and more.

You’re invited to submit a listing for this column: It’s easy. Email your information to [email protected] at least 10 days in advance. A good quality photo without type on the image – sent as a jpeg attachment – helps. If you’ve heard that the “One Night of Queen” show ...

08/25/2025

History lessons behind Plymouth’s tiny schoolhouses: From Cedarville to North Plymouth, learning in close quarters was once the norm.

I despise this time of the year but not for the reasons you think. As August heads towards September, it heralds the exodus of college students and some of my favorite people are leaving to return to school. That means the “kids” that make my morning latte, the waitstaff at the wedding venue whe...

08/23/2025

With the Legislature on recess, we checked in with Plymouth’s Beacon Hill representatives: All three ticked off actions that they say will benefit the town.

The Massachusetts Legislature is in its August recess, with members spending more time reconnecting with their districts. It seemed liked a good time to find out what Plymouth’s three state legislators have been up to on behalf of their constituents. The Independent asked each of them to list what...