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Sep 25, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · RUSS WALKER | Watchdog Team Leader

    History mystery solved! Document reveals Revolutionary War officer's link to Lancaster County (opens the original)

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    On the evening of July 4, powerful thunderstorms swept across much of Lancaster County, knocking out power to big swaths of Manheim Township, East Lampeter and elsewhere. Those storms also knocked out power to computers that handle the production of LNP | LancasterOnline. That meant the Sunday, July 5, edition of LNP wasn’t printed. I tried, without success, not to take it personally. I was excited for readers to see two stories I wrote for that edition — one about a new book on the Declarat

  2. Article · Jul 18, 2026 · RUSS WALKER | Watchdog Team Leader

    Smucker comfortably ahead of Democratic challenger in money chase; sends checks to other GOP candidates (opens the original)

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    As has been the case in nearly every election year since 2016, U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker maintains a hefty fundraising advantage over his Democratic challenger. Smucker, a West Lampeter Township resident running for a sixth term this fall, had more than $800,000 in his campaign account as of June 30. In the quarter starting April 1, he raised $184,000, outraising Democrat Nancy Mannion by $120,000. So far in the two-year campaign cycle that began Jan. 1, 2025, Smucker has raised just over $1 milli

  3. Article · Jul 11, 2026 · RUSS WALKER | Watchdog Team Leader

    Major Pa. GOP campaign donor pardoned by Trump (opens the original)

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    A former Lancaster County resident and a major campaign donor to state and national Republican candidates received a pardon from President Donald Trump on July 3, commuting a 2006 guilty plea for wire fraud and conspiracy. Adam R. Kidan was one of 11 people who received a pardon on July 3. A “pardon warrant” posted to the Justice Department website said Kidan received “a full and unconditional pardon” for crimes that tie back to Kidan’s partnership with Jack Abramoff, who was convicte

  4. Article · Jul 4, 2026 · RUSS WALKER | Watchdog Team Leader

    History: James C. Leman and Christian Myers' Revolutionary War orderly book (opens the original)

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    The July 4, 1926, edition of The Sunday News carried a story about city resident James C. Leman, who had a Revolutionary War officer's orderly book that had been handed down for generations in his family. The book belonged to Christian Myers, who served with the German Regiment. Myers wrote out the orders he received for how the Continental Army would mark the Declaration of Independence's anniversary on July 4, 1778. “Original orders for July 4 celebration unearthed here” screamed the headl

  5. Article · Jul 4, 2026 · RUSS WALKER | Watchdog Team Leader

    Revolutionary War officer's notebook, long held by Lancaster family, revealed orders for July 4 (opens the original)

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    “Original orders for July 4 celebration unearthed here” screamed the headline at the top of pages 28 and 29 of the Sunday News edition published on July 4, 1926 — the date of the United States’ sesquicentennial. What followed was an unbylined story describing a Revolutionary War treasure owned by James C. Leman, of 553 W. Walnut St., Lancaster: an officer’s personal orderly book. The officer was Christian Myers, of Baltimore, who had joined the German Regiment of the Continental Army,

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