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Health Check: Understanding Anxiety during Mental Health Awareness Month & Beyond

By DR. NIKKI BLOCH
What is Anxiety? Anxiety is a normal human emotion. It feels like worry or concern. Some physical signs of anxiety are restlessness, fast speech, sweating, fast heartbeat, or “butterflies” in the stomach. Anxiety originates back to when early humans needed to stay alert, escape or avoid danger, and even learn.

Op-Ed: Our Moral Moment

By SILVIA BLUMENFELD
These days, friends here in The Bronx, and all across the country, are telling me that they have stopped listening to the news. I can’t say the same, but in a way, I really do get the reason for that phenomenon.

Inquiring Photographer: Thoughts on the Life, Death & Legacy of Pope Francis

By DAVID GREENE & SÍLE MOLONEY
As cardinals gather in Rome for the latest conclave in order to select a new pope, this week, we asked readers their opinion on the life, death, and legacy of the late Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pope, the first pope from Latin America, and the first pope from the southern hemisphere, who was born in Flores, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and died at the Vatican in Rome, Italy on Easter Monday, April 21, at the age of 88.

UPDATE Some Residents in Norwood and Olinville Have No Landline Phone Service Since April 22

By JUDY NOY, SÍLE MOLONEY & DAVID GREENE
After some Bronx residents living in ZIP code NY 10467, which broadly covers the Norwood and Olinville neighborhoods, officially reported a loss of landline phone service since Thursday, April 24, Verizon has confirmed to Norwood News that there was damage to some equipment due to vandalism and they are working to fix the issue as soon as possible. One female elderly resident who lives on Dekalb Avenue by East 212th Street who happens to have a cell phone as a back-up said she recently spoke with Verizon and said her service actually stopped April 22.