To the Editor:
Cheers Beacon Hill is a bar/restaurant located on Beacon Street in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, across from the Boston Public Garden. Founded in 1969 as the Bull & Finch Pub, the bar is best remembered internationally as the exterior of the bar seen in the hit NBC sitcom Cheers, which ran between 1982 and 1993. Cheers hours of operation are 11:00 am to 11:00 pm every day.
The Inn at Shipyard Park is not “Mattapoisett’s Cheers”. The bar/pub of Cheers fame is in a residential neighborhood and therefore closes at 11:00 pm. They don’t have amplified music playing until 1:00 am in the morning on weekends.
Turks closes at 10:00 pm and Ying Dynasty is closed by 11:00 pm. The Y camp in the summer has stopped the music at 11:00 pm. Why? Because neighbors complained.
Our town needs a noise ordinance because the police cannot patrol and stop the noise after 11 pm if we don’t have one. If a party in a neighborhood is too rowdy and the music too loud, the police can stop it.
The Inn would be a good neighbor if they stopped the music at 11:00 pm. The Inn has the license to stay open until 1:00 am and the patrons can continue to drink and talk.
Mattapoisett means a peaceful place for all residence.
Randy and Daune Smith, Mattapoisett
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