50 years ago
"Rare bird visits here, draws crowd of curious" was a headline on the front of the Old Colony Memorial dated Feb. 24, 1972. A Bohemian waxwing was spotted by a Plymouth woman near Stephens Lane and about 80 visitors from all over the state made a pilgrimage to go look at it. The bird breeds mainly in Canada and less frequently in Montana, Idaho and Washington. The bird got its name from the red waxlike tips on its wing feathers. It has a patch of cinnamon colored feathers under the tail as opposed to its cousin's white patch. The waxwings eat fruits and berries of trees and shrubs. Before the previous week's storm, the bird moved to the area of the fish hatchery on Nook Road and had now gone on "to parts unknown."
A photo showed a cottage precariously balanced atop a cliff at Surfside Estates in Vallerville. A storm the previous Saturday had completely undermined its shoreside underpinning and it would probably have to be moved to safe ground.
Elliot's Furniture opened in Standish Plaza Feb. 10. The ribbon cutter at the opening ceremony was John Prentice, the chairman of Plymouth selectmen. Elliot's operated more than 30 stores in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
On Jan. 12, the minimum wage for many employees within the scope of the Massachusetts Minimum Fair Wage Law advanced from $1.60 an hour to $1.85 per hour.
The new Plymouth-Carver Intermediate School got a special citation at the exhibit of school architecture held the past week in Atlantic City, N.J....
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