The troubled town of Times Beach copes with a dioxin scare
Ira Bennett puttered about his yard, cleaning up debris and casting watchful glances at the still rain-swollen Meramec River across the road. "I don't know what to think about dioxin," said the 60-year-old construction worker. "I've lived here for 13 years. The birds are still flying, dogs are still running around." Then he bent over to turn up a strip of plywood, revealing a colony of worms in the dirt. "See there. If something was wrong, do you think they'd still be living?"
Bennett and the other residents of The town (pop....
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