Plymouth News

Every night for the past month, 18-year-old Samina Rafiq would slip off her flip-flops and place them next to several other pairs of shoes at the bottom of a staircase before joining a small group of women upstairs at a small mosque on Falmouth Road.

Joe and Cathy Brigham of Bow recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.

A shortage of drivers has left some Plymouth & Brockton Street Railway Co. riders stranded in the last two months as the company has been forced to skip scheduled routes.

A Plymouth woman was taken to the hospital after a single-vehicle crash on Route 6 westbound at the foot of the Sagamore Bridge early this morning.

I am a guest on one of two new spiffy black and white Army Corps of Engineers' Metal Shark pilot boats.

Courtesy of Priscilla Beach Theatre The cast of 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee' to play July 25 through Aug. 3 at Priscilla Beach Theatre in Plymouth.

A sunny yellow island is the focal point of the Maguire family's kitchen on Scraggy Neck, in the Bourne village of Cataumet.

A toddler in Marshfield is safe thanks to some quick thinking teens who saw the child locked inside a hot car.

It seems like just about everybody wants it to go away. All Cape and Vineyard towns, the governor, and our state and US representatives- all want to see it closed, for reasons that have been rehearsed almost daily in this paper.

MassDevelopment has received a $3,917,629 U.S. Department of Education grant to help charter schools obtain facilities under the Credit Enhancement for Charter Schools Facilities Program .

A 22-year-old Plymouth woman pleaded not guilty in Falmouth District Court on Wednesday to charges stemming from a series of crashes in Bourne last month.

For archeologist and food historian Paula Marcoux, the business of cooking begins as it did almost two million years ago: with a fire and a stick.

This one had a little extra special meaning to Mark Herzlich. The Giants linebacker hosted the 2014 Liberty Mutual Golf Outing this past week to raise money to support Ewing's Sarcoma research.

Eight days after a rain-soaked Fourth of July, residents lined Route 3A this morning in red, white, and blue for a belated Independence Day parade.

Without vetoing the money for the coming fiscal year, Gov. Deval Patrick recommended Friday that the Legislature remove state budget language that calls for automatically reimbursing school districts such as Bourne's in future years for the cost of educating students from military families.

The June 10 My View commentary by Diane Turco caught my attention, especially after the discussions we'd just had at our Cape Cod National Seashore Advisory Commission meeting the previous day.

It hadn't happened for centuries but on Thursday, a horseback rider galloped up to Town Hall carrying important news of the day: The messenger, wearing colonial garb of knickers and a pointed hat climbed down off his steed and handed Town Moderator Claire Smith a scroll that she unrolled and read to the audience before her.

Check out images from the first round of the 2014 Ricoh Women's British Open at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England.

Concluding more than a year of discussion and negotiation, the board Tuesday unanimously voted to accept the recommendation of Town Administrator Derek Sullivan to join the Mayflower Municipal Health Group of Plymouth.

A state Department of Public Health team collected samples Monday night and Tuesday at Manomet Elementary School in Plymouth as part of the investigation into the death of school custodian Chester Flattery.