POETRY: We received some more poems from Joy Pascarella of Bradford, and want to share them with you.

The first is called “Fear.”

Fear is controlling

Fear is gripping

Fear is draining

Fear is crippling

Fear predicts the future

Fear conducts today

Fear is time consuming

Fear gets in the way

Stare down fear, take back control

Build up courage, let fear go.

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“The Ones We Thought”

The ones we thought were besties

The ones we thought we knew

The ones we thought would never hurt us

Turns out to be untrue.

The ones we poured our hearts out to

And shared our every thought

Are the ones who hurt us deeply,

And love us they did not.

Our journey through life leads us to

The ones who show they care.

The ones we thought we knew so well

No longer need be there.

HISTORY: Among the things that happened on this date in history, according to the Associated Press, were:

• In 1610, Englishman Lord De La Warr arrived at the Jamestown settlement to take charge of the Virginia Colony.

• In 1692, the first execution resulting from the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts took place as Bridget Bishop was hanged.

• In 1935, Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio, by Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith and William Griffith Wilson.