Jed Ebersole News Today

Jed Ebersole has joined the football coaching staff at Lake Buena Vista High as its new defensive coordinator.

In a world where a phone call from a stranger often goes directly to voicemail, Ed Ebersole picks up before the second ring. He would love to talk about his 100 years on the planet, 78 of them married to his lovely June. He definitely wants to explain how he taught himself to crochet at age 90 and now creates feathery blankets for children who need warmth. Yes, he’s about to finish his 50th blanket for Project Linus, a national charity that collects and donates newly made blankets. Ed star...

THE ISSUE: It’s Monday, the day we take a few moments to highlight the good news in Lancaster County. Local stories of achievement, perseverance, compassion and creativity represent welcome points of light in a difficult time, and they deserve a brighter spotlight. Last week — even as we observed the sorrowful one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring the novel coronavirus outbreak to be a pandemic — there were many great and optimistic developments in our y...