ARLINGTON, Va. — It sounded like popcorn warming in a microwave: sporadic bursts that quickened, gradually, to an arrhythmic clatter. “There it is,” Mary McKee said, staring out the front door of her home in Arlington, Virginia, on a recent afternoon. McKee, 43, a conference planner, moved to the neighborhood in 2005 and for the next decade and a half enjoyed a mostly tranquil existence. Then came the pickleball players. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times She gestured acr
The fight over the new pickleball courts coming to Walter Reed Community Center appears to have escalated. In a flyer that's now being disseminated around the neighborhood, opponents are leveling accusations of "bullying of our children by pickleball players," "public urination on playground and sensory garden," and causing "excessive continuous noise from dawn to 10