Teen board meeting

Students in fifth through 12th grades are welcome to join the J-W Teen Advisory Board. We’re looking for aspiring writers and photographers, as well as ideas on what you’d like to see on the 18 & Under page.

The board’s next meeting is 7 p.m. Monday at the News Center, 645 N.H.

If you’re interested in attending, send an e-mail to teens@ljworld.com or call Christy Little at 832-6361 or Steve Rottinghaus at 832-7254.

Coming soon

Submit summer events for our calendar

18 & Under will publish the second summer activities calendar at the end of the month. We’ll include movie releases, concert dates, summer theater and other activities. If you know of a youth-friendly event coming up, e-mail it to teens@ljworld.com.”

Poetry

‘River Whispers’

An abandoned canoe peacefully resides
Along the shore of a shadowed pool.
Its skeleton serves as a poignant reminder
Of bygone times,
Of long-forgotten civilizations ceased.
Sunrays sift from the vaulted welkin
Down through the forest depths,
As golden-gilded the illuminated birches become,
Towering omnisciently over their kingdom.
Silence envelopes the umbra.
Only the deer, once-hunted,
Dare disturb the melancholy stillness
And nostalgic secrets of the wood.

– By LHS student Kailey Mesler. Inspired by Thomas Worthington Whittredge’s “The Old Hunting Grounds.”