Historical April 1995 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
The role that The Times has played in the Skinker-DeBaliviere neighborhood cannot be overestimated.
As I look back over the sixteen years Paul and I have lived in the area, this small but noble paper has been one of the forces which has kept us moving forward and together. Looking back in this spring of 1995, I remember the five years I was editor as time spent working on an ongoing project which I cared about, tying me to my neighbors and to the issues which both confronted us and affirmed us.
The paper celebrated its fifteenth anniversary while I was editor; we changed our name from the generic late-1960’s The Paper to the current name The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere with Ken Cohen’s new masthead; we had, it seems, many parties in the Vatcha’s backyard; we covered the closing of Des Peres; City Equity’s purchase and “redo” of the Rosedale and Washington apartment buildings (Rosedale Square); and probably everyone has forgotten but what a great April Fool’s trick we played on the front page with the barricades on Skinker with King’s fabulous photography working its magic. How fortunate we are to live in a neighborhood where we agree to disagree and where we have real issues about which to discuss.
We are a lively bunch, and The Times gives us the forum to express that liveliness.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, April 1995.
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