The wind was blowing from the north-northwest at The Spire Center downtown on Friday afternoon, and for the first time in a long while, people walking by could use the […]
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‘I want to make all this stuff disappear’
North Plymouth resident Joe Pickett is something of a professional when it comes to selling goods at flea markets and yard sales. Picket, who is 64, has been doing it […]
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Remembering Tom Ruggiero and his amazing D-Day story
The seas were rough that morning 80 years ago. In the early hours of D-Day, June 6, 1944, Sgt. Tom Ruggiero of Plymouth put a paper sack he’d been handed […]
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Living the life of summer theater at Priscilla Beach
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A whale of a tale is coming to the Plimoth Cinema
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Things to do around town this week and beyond
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Navy veteran who escorted FDR to be honored on his 100th birthday
The scuttlebutt was true: something big was happening on the USS Baltimore. On July 21, 1944, Seaman First Class William “Willie” F. O’Connell watched with awe as President Franklin President […]
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How plastic is invading our bodies
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Make Plymouth’s Hometown Hound contest your pet’s project
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How the Mayflower II helped mend relations between the US and the UK
On June 8, 1957, the Mayflower II was nearing the end of her transatlantic journey from England to America. Near Bermuda, she encountered a fleet of international warships, which cruised […]