Jay Beauregard, born and raised in Plymouth, served four years in the Marine Corps and has worked for 33 years at a local company. Third, we don’t allow a group of adults to take beer to an unused field while they played a quick game. Second if you want “the full minor league experience,” why not allow it at Little League games? The argument could be made that the adults could drink while their kids played their game. It’s a youth field.įirst, if you do it for one group it would only be fair to allow it for all. In a balancing act, the ban wins out.Įd Angley is an attorney specializing in zoning and land use. I also understand the logic of banning the sale of alcohol on town athletic fields. I understand the economics of a beer and a hot dog. Banning alcohol at town athletic fields is sensible. If the Pilgrims want to put an article on the town meeting warrant, they can do it. I do not think the selectmen should bring the matter to town meeting. Should Town Meeting accommodate the Pilgrims and change the bylaw to allow the sale of beer and wine at the town’s ball fields? Pilgrims President Dave Dittmann wants to create the full minor league experience: “There’s nothing more American than a hot dog and a beer at the ballgame.” Selectmen put the matter on the agenda for late summer, still time to get it onto the fall town meeting warrant. The only way around it is by a bylaw change. Selectmen took no action last week on the Plymouth Pilgrims’ request to sell beer and wine at ball games this summer – a town bylaw prohibits the sale of alcohol on town athletic fields. Water Street and Main Street Extension 24% Which intersection is inviting the most trouble in Plymouth? We hope their diverse points of view will encourage discussion of the issues Plymouth faces. Some are current or past Town Meeting representatives, and all are active in the community. Participants cross the local political spectrum and live throughout the town. This column is designed to bring the voices of well-informed residents into the Forum page to address issues, one at a time. The newspaper poses a question to the group each week, and participants choose whether to comment. It appears on the Forum pages in the Weekend edition of the OCM. Jam session is an opinion forum offering comments on issues from a group of Plymouth residents.
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