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Pennsylvania’s public schools are not alone in considering banning cellphone use during the school day. Old Order Mennonites want Amish children to stop bringing their cellphones to a combination Amish-Mennonite school in eastern Lancaster County. They also want the Amish to stop using cellp…

When Christopher Scott purchased Lime Valley Mill on the Pequea Creek near Willow Street seven years ago, he knew he faced a major restoration project. The grist mill, built by George and Susanna Lefevre in 1846, had been abandoned. It required major repairs.

Some property owners demolish older, stable, sometimes historic buildings so they can erect modern structures that require less maintenance.

On Thursday, Americans will celebrate precisely 248 years since a Congress of upstart colonists adopted the Declaration of Independence on Thursday, July 4, 1776.

Raccoons can open 11 of 13 complex locks on one box in fewer than 10 attempts. These locks include bolts, hooks, lift latches, levers and other devices that must be manipulated in a precise order to open a box.

When the Scribbler was a senior at Dickinson College in the mid-1960s, he knew a 68-year-old man named Whitney Wells. Wells was a former Harvard University instructor who enjoyed drinking 8-ounce glasses of beer and shots of whiskey for hours in a tavern in downtown Carlisle, where the Scrib…

Dear Dr. Scribblerstamps:

Cindy Beaston has conversations with Civil War generals.

Dear Dr. Scribblerlanc:

On Saturday, April 20, Philadelphia’s first monument dedicated to a formerly enslaved woman will be unveiled on the grounds of Stenton, a magnificent 300-year-old home in the Logan section of the city near Germantown. The public is invited.

James Buchanan will get a face-lift this spring.

Dear Dr. Scribblerhobby: