Mary Ellen was down in Plymouth this morning and spotted an eagle eating breakfast atop Flag Rock and a dolphin swimming nearby. And then a lobster boat puttered by.
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By adamg - 10/24/24 - 9:47 am
A company in Plymouth called Beantown Home Services yesterday filed a federal trademark-infringement suit against a company in Middleboro called Beantown Home Improvements. Read more.
By Ron Newman - 8/28/24 - 2:52 pm
An email from the Mass. Department of Conservation and Recreation: Read more.
By adamg - 1/8/24 - 12:48 pm
The Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism recounts the saga of Charles Taylor, a native Liberian who went to Bentley and lived in Roxbury, returned to Liberia to become a government official, fled after he was charged with embezzlement, was picked up by US marshals and put in the Plymouth House of Corrections, from which he escaped in 1985 to become the leader of a bloody campaign to become the country's dictator.
By adamg - 12/10/23 - 12:23 pm
Three faces of Fisher in DC, one with cap with Pats, Bruins and Celtics logos, via FBI.
A federal judge in Washington has set a Feb. 1 hearing at which Joseph Fisher, a retired Boston Police canine officer, is expected to plead guilty to both felony and misdemeanor charges for bursting into the Capitol on Jan. 6 and using a chair to attack a Capitol Police officer who was pursuing one of Fisher's fellow attempted coup-makers. Read more.
By adamg - 4/1/23 - 10:15 pm
Fisher strolling through the Capitol before attacking cop, allegedly.
A federal judge on Thursday let Joseph Fisher return to his Plymouth home to await further proceedings on federal felony and misdemeanor charges for his alleged participation in the Jan. 6 attempt to enthrone Donald Trump in a job voters had turned him out of. Read more.
By adamg - 3/30/23 - 2:09 pm
Three faces of Fisher in DC, one with cap with Pats, Bruins and Celtics logos, via FBI.
The FBI today arrested a former Boston cop on charges he didn't just bust into the Capitol with fellow coupsters on Jan. 6, he rammed a chair into a police officer running after a pepper-spraying member of Y'all Queda, then began beating the cop, only the cop got the better of him and knocked him to the ground. Read more.
By adamg - 9/12/22 - 9:44 am
It can be hard to agree with what Texans or New Yorkers have to say about our fair state, but Lawrence Wright, a Texan who writes for the New Yorker, isn't exactly wrong when he observes:
Plymouth Rock has to be one of the most unremarkable artifacts of American history.
By adamg - 7/23/22 - 12:15 pm
Spending some time down in Plymouth in recent days, Mary Ellen made a point of getting down to Manomet early each morning to watch the humpback whales enjoying a breakfast buffet just offshore.
By adamg - 8/6/20 - 9:06 am
WBZ reports the Mayflower II was scheduled to dock in Newport, RI on its way back from renovation work in Mystic, CT, but decided to skip the Ocean State because of Gov. Baker's decision to add it to the list of states whose residents and visitors have to quarantine for 14 days if they come into Massachusetts.
By adamg - 7/3/20 - 11:01 am
The Cape Cod Times reports on an allegedly charming fellow who reacted to being asked to put a mask on in a Plymouth restaurant by deliberately coughing on two patrons and telling them he hoped they just got coronavirus. Police caught up with him and now he's facing charges of two counts each of assault, threatening to commit murder and threatening to bomb or hijack and single counts of negligent driving and disturbing the peace as a subsequent offense.
By adamg - 7/17/16 - 11:48 am
Luke O'Neil reports on the Twelve Tribes, which owns the Blue Blinds Bakery in Plymouth.
Growing up, Kayam Mathias said he was beaten 20 to 30 times a day.
"I grew to be numb to it, to quell the rage within and just not feel anything."
By adamg - 7/11/16 - 7:04 am
Boston Magazine gets to the bottom of posts on a Facebook page that had existed just to promote the bakery until last week - a former group member is involved.
By adamg - 9/3/14 - 10:28 pm
WCVB reports two kayakers taking seal pictures were overturned by a great white shark - which tried taking a bite out of one of their kayaks.
By adamg - 4/11/11 - 10:54 am
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today state environmental officials have the right to tell the owners of the Plymouth nuclear plant to take steps to protect fish and other animals from being sucked into the plant's cooling system.
State officials say they don't actually have any plans to order changes, but Entergy Nuclear Generation sued anyway, saying state law only gives the Department of Environmental Protection the right to regulate what comes out at the other end of the cooling process. A lower-court judge agreed, but the state's highest court said that was balderdash.
By adamg - 2/22/11 - 12:07 pm
No threat to the public from the water draining from the cooling system, plant operators assure the Patriot-Ledger.
By Anonymous - 9/15/10 - 1:37 pm
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-On May 22, 1991, as the superior officer at a purported crime scene in Wareham, Sgt. Perry was present when Officer Scott Flanagan indecently strip searched and assaulted a 14-year-old girl-At said time and place, Sgt. Perry was in a position to both see Flanagan's conduct and to hear the girl's loud protestations.
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