Word: townes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With a vote of 57-2 and one abstention, the council also resolved to endorse the anti-homophobia rally being organized by the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance (BGLTSA) for tomorrow, organize a town meeting to discuss homophobia, and to condemn outright the recent acts of vandalism...
...This place is like a town," says English teacher Minnie Phillips. "We have a jail, a hospital, a restaurant, a theater. We've got everything you need here...but everyone goes home at night." And with luck, comes back the next morning...
...This place" is Webster Groves High School, which sits off the main street of a pretty town of old elms and deep porches, about 10 miles southwest of St. Louis, Mo., where, when people ask you where you went to school, they are not referring to college. That's just the way it is here; high school tugs hard and holds on; people graduate and come back and send their kids, who graduate and do the same. This town of 23,000 is not as tony as nearby Clayton or Ladue; it has its mix of $90,000 cottages...
...years--happily so in 1996, when President Clinton came to honor the school's antidrug efforts, less happily in 1965, when a CBS News team, led by producer Arthur Barron and renowned correspondent Charles Kuralt, arrived to film Sixteen in Webster Groves, a one-hour documentary about the town and its high school-age adolescents...
Hurricane Irene spoiled the Crimson's visit to Florida for the Miami Invitational last weekend. The inclement weather followed Harvard home to Ohiri Field Wednesday, as showers drenched the pitch and forced officials to cancel the match-up against cross-town rival Boston University...