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English village church bell silenced after 177 years over noise complaints

A historic Anglican church in a small English town has silenced its bells after 177 years following noise complaints, prompting outrage from local villagers who claim the move has upended a long ...
Duluth News Tribune

Bygones: Lakeside church drew noise complaints in 2006

Four loudspeakers on the roof of Faith Lutheran Church broadcast recorded bell music twice a day to the neighborhood, seen ...
Berkshire Eagle

For whom does the bell toll? Great Barrington church to shut off bell at night for family losing sleep

GREAT BARRINGTON — Some people who live downtown say the hourly bell that tolls at First Congregational Church is a sweet sound amid nighttime street clamor like trucks and sirens. But for at least ...
HeraldNet

100 years later, bell still tolls at Snohomish church

SNOHOMISH — The church bell echoed through the Snohomish River valley. Farmers heard the sound and knew. The service was starting soon. Time to get going. A hundred years ago, locals gathered at the ...
Cleveland.com

The sound of Christmas rings true: Churches mark the holiday with pealing of historic bells

So it went unrung for several years until a separate concrete-block tower was built for it as part of a 1908 church expansion. Westlake United Methodist undertook what turned out to be a yearslong ...
Morning Call PA

Bethlehem’s Holy Infancy Church bell rings once again after 22 years of silence. To the parish, it’s a blessing; to some neighbors, a nuisance.

After 22 years of silence, the bell at Bethlehem’s oldest Roman Catholic Church is ringing again. But not everybody is happy about it. The Holy Infancy Church on East Fourth Street in south Bethlehem ...