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A LEGEND
BLAINE SHAHAN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

This is the Fraternal Order of Police Red Rose Lodge 16

property southeast of Distelfink Inn Dirty Ol’ Tavern at 917 S.
Prince St. in Lancaster Township. Wanda Jean Nye, owner of
the inn, sued the lodge last year over a land deal with county
officials, claiming the local FOP chapter ignored her right of
first option on the land.

RETIRES
PRISON PROJECT

Court fight
over land
continues
Expert: Eminent domain battle might
position woman for upped compensation
TOM LISI
WATCHDOG@LNPNEWS.COM

A
ccording to a
74-year-old widow,
the fraternal
organization that bought
a 5-acre property in Lan-
caster Township from her
late husband more than a
half-century ago — for the
low, low price of $2,000 —
is now doing her dirty … LANCASTER
with the help of Lancaster
County officials who want
WATCHDOG
the land for a new jail.
Wanda Jean Nye sued That suit, in turn,
Fraternal Order of Police prompted the county to
Red Rose Lodge 16 last begin eminent domain
BLAINE SHAHAN | FILE PHOTO
year over the deal, claim- proceedings to take the
Brad Bumsted, right, interviews Gov. Tom Wolf in 2016 for The Caucus, LNP Media Group’s investigative
newspaper. Bumsted, after nearly five decades of writing, retired after leading The Caucus as bureau chief
ing the local FOP chapter parcel, which is next to
since its founding in January 2017. Bumsted and The Caucus staff won numerous awards for their reporting. ignored her right of first Greenwood Cemetery
option on the land. The near the southern border
property is just southeast of Lancaster city and is
The story behind the stories in of Nye’s Distelfink Inn crucial for plans to build a
Dirty Ol’ Tavern at 917 S. new jail on a neighboring
Brad Bumsted’s remarkable run Prince St., along the Con- 78-acre farm the county
estoga River and just east bought last year.
TOM MURSE | TMURSE@LNPNEWS.COM of the Highland Avenue In fighting the eminent

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bridge at Engleside. WATCHDOG, page A4
Friday evening in late August 2014. Labor Day
weekend. Only two reporters are still at work
in the Capitol newsroom, and they’re the  !  - 

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two feared most by corrupt politicians: Brad “It was a once-in-a-lifetime
Bumsted of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and Angela
opportunity. ... I did a lot of  

Couloumbis of The Philadelphia Inquirer.
They are friends and fierce competitors. They both good stories before this. I
  
have been trying to break the same big story. And they’re
did the best work of my life  

circling each other like sharks in a tank.


   

Bumsted strolls past Couloumbis’ desk on his way out. for The Caucus.”
And she knows: He has it. — Brad Bumsted, on his tenure with
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