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Imagine reading a newspaper “advertisement” claiming that a woman has left her husband because he is impotent.

Did you ever cruise Lancaster’s “Loop”? Or watch a drag race on the Norman Wood Bridge?

This is the season when dozens of ducks — most of them wild, many just passing through — descend on the placid waters of Lake Catherine at Long’s Park.

Dear Dr. Scribblerroad:

“Without (James) Buchanan, the country would be little different,” writes Neil King Jr. in a book soon to be released by HarperCollins. “Without (Thaddeus) Stevens, we would be a far different and lesser nation.”

Some observers believe that Conestogas who survived the 1763 massacre in Lancaster — largely by intermingling previously with the Iroquois of New York — have carried on the Conestoga/Susquehannock bloodline into the 21st century. Establishing proof of Conestoga/Susquehannock ancestry, howeve…

An earlier version of this column used an outdated estimate for the size of an alleged Chinese spy balloon. The U.S. military says it was 200 feet high.

The Scribbler recently re-watched “Witness,” that exceptional movie made in Lancaster County in 1984 by director Peter Weir. The Scribbler was struck this time by two particular lines.

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W. Jack Lewicki Jr. and William J. Kauffman are inventors and they are collaborators.

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On New Year’s night in Lancaster 200 years ago, illness felled one of the nation’s earliest practicing advocates of press freedom. Seventeen years earlier, William Dickson, editor of the Lancaster Intelligencer, had been jailed for libel. “O trumpery!” he proclaimed at the time. If he lay dy…