Massachusetts
Massachusetts homeowner struggling to sell her $1M house over noisy feud with Pickleball players at nearby club
A Massachusetts homeowner claims she has failed to sell her $1 million Cape Cod home for eight months due to the noise from the newly installed pickleball courts from a nearby country club.
Judith Ann Roan Comeau says she listed her Sagamore Beach home and expected it to be sold within 30 days like other similarly priced homes in the neighborhood, but was surprised to find it still on the market over half a year later.
“We have a beautiful view of the bay, we have beautiful gardens, and we’re so close to the beach,” Comeau told Boston.com. “There was something wrong.”
She listed the three-bedroom, three-bathroom property for more than $1 million before she was forced to remove her listing on Aug. 10, the outlet added.
Comeau alleges that the pickleball courts at the Sagamore Beach Colony Club, a 100-year-old private tennis club, were “snuck in during COVID” and placed 30 feet from her property line are the culprit to her unsellable house.
With the home on the market for eight months, Comeau says she had over 60 people view the home, including many coming back for a second look.
“Each time, no matter what time it is, someone is playing PICKLEBALL,” she wrote on Facebook.
“They refuse to use quiet balls or paddles (the members don’t enjoy them as much), will not limit the hours, said only 1 court, now added another,” she railed to the “Pickleball Noise Relief” Facebook group.
The Facebook group is dedicated to “connecting families who are dealing with the unintentional but significant noise nuisance of pickleball courts.”
Comeau says she bought her home knowing the club was nearby and never ran into an issue with the tennis players.
“Not once have we ever complained about tennis, I actually kept an eye on the courts and kicked kids out who were damaging the courts late at night. Now 16 people can play at once,” she said.”
Having fought and complained about the Pickleball courts for the past four years, Comeau says no one has done anything including “every department” in town, as her arguments for softer balls and paddles have “gone on deaf ears.”
Her attempts to drown out the noise by playing music at her house are often stopped by Pickleball players complaining to her about her noise.
“They knock on my door and send emails to lower my music on my deck so they can enjoy their tournaments and event,” Comeau said.
“Imagine being that (entitled) not to care what your neighbors are dealing with. I have always had great caring neighbors until we moved to THE VILLAGE,” she added.
Comeau has taken to recording the noise level from her deck with readings consistently staying in the high 70s-low 80s weighted decibels.
“Pickleball Noise Relief” founder Rob Mastroianni says it has become a “new phenomenon in residential communities.”
“It’s really insidious, this noise that people are enduring now so close to their homes,” he told Boston.com.
A real estate lawyer representing Comeau and two other residents says he is writing a letter to the club urging they move the courts.
“This is actually a growing issue,” Jonathan Polloni told the outlet. “With the rise of the pickleball we were also seeing a rise in more complaints.”
“I can’t imagine any judge saying that it’s OK for us to have to deal with this,” Comeau said. “I hope that it can just be ended, I can say no pickleball, I could put my house on the market, and ride off into the sunset.”
Yankee Candle is a staple in the Bay State, famous for its colorful jars full of fragrance and warm light.
And while its candles can essentially be bought from anywhere, the mothership of the iconic candles lies in South Deerfield at Yankee Candle Village.
The flagship store, known for its ginormous collection of Yankee Candle scents and retail goods, is a winter holiday destination for those in New England.
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Leading up to Christmas, the store turns into a complete holiday stop.
Now on prominent display are the brand’s many different winter scents, including such classics as Red Apple Wreath and Balsam & Cedar, and such holiday scents as Christmas Cookie and North Pole Greetings.
Bavarian Christmas Village, arguably the most festive room in Yankee Candle Village, is Christmas all year. Guests will stroll through an enchanted forest featuring a 25-foot-tall Christmas tree, nutcrackers, winter village displays and even indoor snow that falls every 4 minutes.
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But scattered throughout the flagship store are hints of Christmas and a winter wonderland — from the home section filled with holiday kitchen decor to the Toy Shop filled with jolly trinkets.
Santa even pays a visit to the Yankee Candle Village, hosting a storytime with kids every Monday through Thursday at 11:30 a.m.
And if the shopping and holiday joy become overwhelming, the store even has cafes that offer a bite to eat. Guests can also indulge in sweet treats in its candy store or try freshly made fudge.
Yankee Candle Village is located at 25 Greenfield Road in South Deerfield. It is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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It swims in the family.
A mother and calf wandered off the beaten path and got stranded in a Massachusetts marsh, forcing an emergency mammal rescue crew to save the wayward dolphin pair.
On Dec. 8, the Wareham Department of Natural Resources responded to a report of two stranded dolphins in the area of Beaverdam Creek off of the Weweantic River, a 17-mile tributary that drains into Buzzards Bay, which directly connects to the Atlantic Ocean.
When crews arrived, two common dolphins were located alive and active, but partially out of the water stranded in the marsh, according to the Wareham Department of Natural Resources.
Responding authorities alerted the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) Marine Mammal Stranding Response Team, based in Cape Cod.
IFAW team members put the dolphins on stretchers and brought them to safety, where they conducted preliminary tests on the wayward dolphins.
“Our teams were easily able to extract the animals and transport them via our custom-built rescue vehicle,” Stacey Hedman, senior director of communications for IFAW, said.
The dolphins were weighed; the smaller of the two weighed approximately 90 lbs, and the larger mammal around 150 lbs.
Upon further analysis, it was revealed that the dolphins were an adult female and a socially-dependent juvenile female, a mother and calf pair.
According to Hedman, IFAW had some concerns over the mother’s decreased responsiveness and abnormal blood work, though it was deemed the pair was healthy enough to release back into the ocean at West Dennis Beach in Dennis, Mass.
“By releasing them into an area with many other dolphins around, this would hopefully increase their chances of socialization and survival. Both animals have satellite tags that are still successfully tracking,” Hedman said.
A 19-year-old Massachusetts man was seriously injured after he was thrown from a moving vehicle he had grabbed onto during a domestic dispute Thursday morning.
Duxbury police said they responded to a report of an injured male who might have been struck by a vehicle on Chandler Street around 5:22 a.m. and found a 19-year-old Pembroke man lying in the roadway with serious injuries.
Through interviews with witnesses, officers learned that the man had gone to his ex-girlfriend’s residence on Chandler Street to confront her current boyfriend. An altercation ensued, during which police said the 19-year-old appears to have jumped on the hood of a vehicle and was then thrown from the moving vehicle.
The incident remains under investigation, police said. At this time, they said no charges have been filed.
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