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Nips are marketed to kids and people who drink while driving

Hey neighbors, check out the kid-friendly flavors nip bottles come in these days – variety packs are cheap.  How about coconut, lime or banana rum, or vodka in grape, orange, strawberry or watermelon?  Trade with your friends!  There’s vanilla, berry & honey whisky, Bailey’s chocolate cherry, and butterscotch, rootbeer & peppermint schnapps.  Perhaps you’d like […]

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Nips are hardly the only trash problem in town

Nips are only part of the overall scattered trash that has lined our roads for years here in South Plymouth. The fast-food litter and many varieties of alcohol containers all chain our beautiful natural road scapes. Bagged and loose trash also line the many routes to the Manomet town dump. Local pond associations have collectively […]

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Plymouth residents can opt to purchase clean electricity

Thank you for Porter Hoagland’s excellent article describing Plymouth’s challenges in preparing for the impacts of a warming climate.   One paragraph deserves clarification:  While 49 percent of the electricity supplied by Plymouth’s power utility, Eversource, does come from natural gas, the Town of Plymouth offers residents and businesses 100 percent clean electricity at a lower […]