COUPLE, CHURCH RENEW DISPUTE OVER PLAYING OF YULETIDE MUSIC.Byline: William Kates Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. To many of their neighbors, Stephen and Mary Diehl are worse than any Scrooge or the Grinch. For two years, in state and federal courts, the Diehls have tried to stop a neighboring neigh·bor n. 1. One who lives near or next to another. 2. A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another. 3. A fellow human. 4. Used as a form of familiar address. v. church from playing Christmas music from loudspeakers atop its steeple. This year, things are even more strained as the feud feud, formalized private warfare, especially between family groups. The blood feud (see vendetta) is characteristic of those societies in which central government either has not arisen or has decayed. continues for a third Christmas in this otherwise serene village of about 700 located 25 miles south of the U.S.-Canadian border. The Diehls say they have been harassed and even attacked by angry residents and now fear for their safety. ``It's gotten very nasty, and getting worse,'' said Diehl, holding an unsigned unsigned Adjective (of a letter etc.) anonymous Adj. 1. unsigned - lacking a signature; "the message was typewritten and unsigned" signed - having a handwritten signature; "a signed letter" letter left in his mailbox A simulated mailbox in the computer that holds e-mail messages. Mailboxes are stored on disk as a file of messages, a database of messages or as an individual file for each message. The standard mailboxes are usually In, Out, Trash and Junk (Spam). two weeks ago that called the couple ``crazy'' and ``evil.'' It said ``people will torment you right out of town.'' The First Congregational Church First Congregational Church may refer to:
The Diehls sued the church in December 1994, complaining that holiday music blared from the speakers for hours at a time. A state judge ordered the music cut back to two hours a day. ``They say they don't want the music stopped, but I can't believe it with all they're doing,'' said the Rev. Kenneth Leamon, who began playing the music again an hour a day Dec. 15. ``It doesn't bother the people who live on either side of them. Or behind them. They want us to believe the music just drops down on their house.'' |
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