The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded in 1630 by a group of Puritan refugees from England led by John Winthrop, and Massachusetts officially became a state in 1788. However, the oldest town in ...

Plymouth was founded in 1620, making it 15 decades older than the country itself. The town was settled by the Pilgrims , who famously settled near Plymouth Rock after traveling across the Atlantic ...

PLYMOUTH – A local restaurateur is set to open a fourth establishment in town. The new restaurant will be at 170 Water St., just steps away from Salt and Pillory Pub. It wasn’t immediately ...

Plymouth is 103 square miles and has a population of over 64,000 residents, Sears said. What’s more: The town has 37 miles of coastline and more than 365 ponds.

From leaking roofs to mice in kitchens, Plymouth's firehouses struggle with conditions that are potentially creating health hazards for firefighters staffing those facilities. Plymouth, MA, Fire ...

Instead, some members of Plymouth’s 18-seat Committee of Precinct Chairs questioned whether saying those words would put the town at risk. It could create controversy in town, said one.

Another landmark in the town of Plymouth, Massachusetts, was vandalized, making it the eighth site in less than a week to be tampered with, officials said.. This time it was the 9/11 memorial ...

A Massachusetts town has closed its municipal parks and fields to nighttime visitors amid a heightened risk of a potentially deadly type of mosquito-borne encephalitis, according to town officials.

Residents of Plymouth are being warned of a rare, but potentially fatal, illness Getty A Massachusetts town is closing its public parks and fields at night due to their “high risk status” for ...

The town will be spraying the area’s parks, neighborhoods and schools between 2 a.m. and sunrise. Mosquitoes infected with EEE have also been detected in Massachusetts’ Plymouth County ...