Plymouth Independent

11/04/2025

Do you know when your trash will be picked up? Complaints pile up as residents try to sort out a dizzying lineup of private – and sometimes unreliable – haulers.

First, he had ABC, then Nauset, then Maher, then Heritage, followed by Star, Carney, and now Lombard’s. Nicholas Shuster-Maloof has lived in Plymouth less than four years, but he’s already had seven companies pick up his trash, he said. Sometimes he switched for poor service — or he inherited ...

11/03/2025

Exploring the remarkable optimism of Holocaust survivors: Plus knitting and beer at Untold Brewing, ‘Train Dreams’ at Plimoth Cinema, the Philharmonic at Plymouth South High, and many more goings-on.

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. Larry Tye was surprised by a common trait he found among ...

10/31/2025

Our latest Your Art Here submission is from Carol Jankowski. “I’ve submitted a photo once before that you published,” she writes. “This photo is of the same door but as seasons change, and time moves on, the door has changed, too. Weeds are grown up and a graffiti artist felt creative and tagged it. Art can be rebellious and a bit wild.”

10/31/2025

How a Plymouth-based nonprofit is changing lives in Haiti and Kenya: Project Trinité’s portable commerce centers are jumpstarting tech careers in remote villages.

Until a few years ago, Benjamin Dominic’s employment prospects were bleak. Living in rural Saint Rock, Haiti, with no electricity or running water, the young high school graduate had few hopes of becoming anything other than an unskilled laborer. Today, Dominic is a trained cyber security speciali...

10/30/2025

Memorial Hall needs $750,000 in emergency repairs: Brindisi says work would focus on stopping water from leaking into the decaying building.

The Select Board Tuesday agreed to spend more than $750,000 to make urgent repairs at Memorial Hall to stop water from leaking into the building and keep it from being closed. Town Meeting last month approved allocating $90,000 for a study to determine viability of restoring 100-year-old hall, which...

10/30/2025

On the road again: Section of Water St. to be dug up. The town says a crucial sewer line has settled and needs to be repaired. Months-long traffic restrictions are expected.

Pardon us if this story sounds too familiar. Water Street will soon be dug up for the third time since 2023, with traffic detoured through early spring. That’s because a contractor needs to repair a relatively new sewer line that has settled, which could cause waste to back up. Northern Constructi...

10/29/2025

State funding squeeze delays downtown project: Town was counting on a $3 million grant to improve safety, walkability, and climate resilience.

A planned transformation of Court and Main streets aimed at improving walkability, pedestrian safety, aesthetics, and climate resiliency will be delayed for at least a year after funding for the project fell through. The work would have been largely paid for by a $3 million state grant that did not....

10/28/2025

Fifty years ago this week, Bob Dylan rolled into Plymouth: Rob Stoner, musical director of the Rolling Thunder R***e, recalls the chaos and stress leading to the historic tour’s opening performances at Memorial Hall.

I’m in Pilgrim Memorial State Park, standing near a landmark. Not Plymouth Rock or the Mayflower II, but a cluster of trees where Bob Dylan posed for the cover of his “Desire” album in late October 1975. The shoot, by famed photographer Ken Regan, took place when Dylan was here to launch the R...

10/28/2025

‘Those things didn’t happen in Plymouth.’ Readers share memories of the Rolling Thunder R***e’s two-day stay in 1975.

Last month, I asked to hear from people who lived in Plymouth when Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder R***e arrived in October 1975. The tour, which has gained almost mythic status over the years, kicked off with two performances at Memorial Hall on Oct. 30 and 31. I wasn’t sure what the response would...

10/27/2025

Our latest Your Art Here submission is a photograph from Mary Johannesen of a lightning bolt above Pilgrim Hall Museum on an August evening. “It wasn’t raining yet so I sat across the street and waited with my iPhone open, hoping I wouldn’t be struck. Then I captured the photo, she writes.

10/27/2025

No scarcity of Halloween week events in town: Plus, harpist Áine Minogue at the library, ‘The Mastermind’ at Plimoth Cinema, Craig Ferguson at Memorial Hall, 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. If you haven’t already had your fill of ghosts, goblins...

10/25/2025

State Road crash leaves teen dead, two others injured: Investigators believe Matthew Wilson, 18, may have lost control of his Civic before striking a Jeep.

An 18-year-old Plymouth man was killed and two others injured in a head-on crash on State Road Friday morning. The accident, on a notoriously dangerous stretch of road, took place just before 8:30 a.m., according to Plymouth police. When officers and firefighters arrived at the scene, at 129 State R...