Nicholas Farber News Today

Buildings of various kinds are to be built the coming season. Of those to be built of brick, M. Rutan will put up a building three stories high on the corner next south of the Fargo & Belknap block. S.R. Stevens will put up a brick joining the Griffith & Derby block on the north. Mrs. M.H. Nichols will put up two stores, so that when completed there will be one continuous brick block commencing on the south with the Lawton store and ending with the Cole & Bennett store on the north. ...

With smartphones, anyone can help track Brood X — and maybe unlock cicada mysteries Meryl Kornfield © Kevin Ambrose/FTWP Introducing a 2021 Brood X cicada. This cicada molted Wednesday in Oakton, Va. (Kevin Ambrose) For amateur cicada mapper Kathleen Quinn-Farber, the summer of 2013 now feels “prehistoric.” Toting a spiral-bound notebook through hot Pennsylvania fields, Quinn-Farber — along with fellow surveyors, her then 11-year-old son and 6-year-old granddaugh...