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Let’s make the News of Neighbors column more as it was originally intended.
When Jo Ann Vatcha initially started the news of neighbors’ column for The Paper, The Times of Skinker DeBaliviere’s original name, this column was titled Vicissitudes.
Although summer has yet to officially come to a close, we are beginning to see ads for back-to-school sales that remind us that fall is right around the corner along with more structure and less daylight.
Did you know that by City Ordinance property owners are responsible for maintaining their property from the center of the street in front to the center of the alley in back?
The Skinker DeBaliviere neighborhood, the city of St. Louis and this newspaper lost a champion with the death of Jo Ann Vatcha, a longtime resident of the 6100 Westminster Place block.
“That is a tetanus shot waiting to happen,” is how one toddler’s parent described the Four-Corners Playground before renovations this past spring.
Occasionally, books have a way of tapping into emotional wells that surprise us.
Who walks or drives almost daily the 6000 and 6100 blocks of Waterman, McPherson, Kingsbury and Westminster wearing a blue uniform, carrying a large satchel and sporting a wide grin and a bushy beard?
The only thing better than fireworks is making them with your kids!
As our neighborhood is getting new playground equipment, it made me think about the importance of play but especially about the time children spend outdoors - playing.
Archival transcription — originally published in The Times of Skinker DeBaliviere, Summer 2026, pages 4 and 7.
A small core of people can get a lot done.
