Celeste Harrington, a Ponds of Plymouth resident since 2003, remembers when the water was fine. “Until Aquarion,” she said. “You could drink it out of the faucet. It tasted good.” Now, however, her water is “sometimes brown,” Harrington said, and “it always smells like bleach.” Other residents of the massive South Plymouth subdivision say […]
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Select Board OK’s a plan to stave off disaster
Plymouth’s Select Board has voted to approve a Climate Action and Adaptation Plan for the town, an aspirational outline for how it will cope with rising sea levels and other environmental changes in coming years. Developed over the last year by the Town’s Climate Action/Net Zero Committee, or CANZ, the plan provides an initial – […]
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You can help counter people who trash Plymouth
The town’s regularly scheduled trash cleanups can lead to some dismaying discoveries. “I found an electric fireplace that someone had dumped in the woods,” said Andrea Dickinson, one of the coordinators of the twice-yearly volunteer event. Others have found vacuum cleaners, mattresses, and tires – all tossed along roadsides or wooded areas. The Department […]
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Stephens Field remake is on track for a July finish
Most of Stephens Field is torn up, but the outlines of the reimagined waterfront park are emerging as the long-anticipated $5 million project moves toward a planned mid-July finish. Signs of progress at the site are obvious as work – which began in October – picks up steam with the arrival of warmer weather. […]
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You’ve heard of tiny houses, but what about a tiny forest?
A.D. Makepeace announced Friday it will create a tiny forest, called a Miyawaki, at the entrance of the Redbrook development in South Plymouth. The company, working with a group of Redbrook residents called Sustainable Redbrook, said it will create an organic, dense, and diverse forest made up of 350 native trees and shrubs. Makepeace said […]
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The town’s water supply is fragile. Is enough being done to protect it?
Everyone can agree that Plymouth’s precarious aquifer, which supplies the town’s drinking water, needs to be protected. But local activists warn that an increasing number of industrial, commercial, and residential development projects, as well as sand-mining operations, are putting the quality of our water at increasing risk. Town officials say they are trying to […]
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Watch a time lapse video of the eclipse above the Forefathers Monument
We know that the total eclipse of the sun is totally over, and that wasn’t quite a total eclipse here in Plymouth. Nonetheless, it was pretty dramatic, as documented by videographer Christopher Harting in this brief time lapse clip he made at the Forefathers Monument on Monday afternoon. And don’t worry – looking directly at […]
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How to get rid of your hazardous waste without damaging the environment
If you’ve got rusting cans of old paint, buckets of dirty motor oil and other gross waste products taking up space in your garage, here’s a chance to dispose of them without harming the environment. The Town of Plymouth has scheduled its latest Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day for Saturday, April 20, from 9 a.m. […]
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‘The sound alone is deafening on some days’
Plymouth Municipal Airport officials have promised to investigate why neighbors are increasingly complaining about noise. The airport plans to extend a runway, but concerns raised at two recent meetings were not so much about the expansion, but about how much noise neighbors are hearing now. It is a mystery to airport staff and […]
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Recycling requires effort, but the alternative is scary
This is the second installment of a two-part series on recycling in Plymouth. You can read the first installment here. Recycling is like the world – complex and imperfect. But Plymouth residents can make it work better. First, if you are not yet recycling, start. Second, if you are recycling, learn to correctly separate trash […]