2012-03-10 23:01:00
Jon Rutter
Jacy Good was voted "most school spirited" at Warwick. Today, that spirit infuses a personal crusade –– imploring people to get off their cellphones when they drive. Because one 18-year-old Berks County minivan driver did not hang up when he took the wheel Sunday, May 18, 20......
2010-07-17 16:54:00
JON RUTTER
Jacy Good sees Pennsylvania as an island of dangerous driving. Most bordering states have laws banning the use of hand-held cell phones while operating a motor vehicle. A similar proposal lies in limbo in Harrisburg. "We're the odd man out right now," said Good, who became......
2010-06-10 22:37:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
The scene was as old as public education itself; seniors arriving at school, donning caps and gowns, saying good-bye to friends and lining up to take that final walk as high school students.That was the experience of the 288 seniors in Ephrata High School's Class of 2010 Thursday, duri......
2010-04-28 21:43:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Sorry, Mr. President.Jacy Good said if she could ask just one person to help her campaign against using cell phones while driving, it would not be the president of the United States.It would be Oprah Winfrey.Friday, Good is getting her wish.The 23-year-old former Brunn......
2010-04-05 22:05:00
CINDY STAUFFER
People told Jacy Good when she was a student at Muhlenberg College that she was going to save the world.Active in environmental issues, a campus tutor and all-around dynamo, she was poised to take a job with Habitat for Humanity in Brooklyn after her 2008 graduation.That changed in ......
2009-06-28 00:06:00
MANDY STOLTZFUS
Ivan and Dottie Good, of West Earl Township, lost their son and daughter-in-law, Jay and Jean Good, both 58, in a tragic car accident in May 2008. Their reaction to the news of that horrific crash "was shock, pure and simple," said Ivan. A year later, they are now just at the gri......
2009-03-09 00:01:00
DAVE PIDGEON
The ship has struck rocks and is taking on water before it even sails out of harbor.Gov. Ed Rendell's proposal to have a commission study the viability of merging the state's 501 school districts into 100 regional territories had all the makings of a long-term Democratic Party plat......
2009-03-04 02:13:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Life is transitioning from tragedy to advocacy for 22-year-old Jacy Good.Good is in the midst of restructuring her life after a May 2008 car crash that took the life of both her parents and left her in a temporary coma.Starting next week, she'll try to sway state legislators to ......
2008-10-09 12:30:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Jacy Good and her boyfriend, Steve Johnson, are grinning, their eyes dancing, as they hold a hand-painted cardboard sign promoting a greener world, in the photo taken not long before they graduated from Muhlenberg College last spring. Their lives were on the brink, brimming with energy and exci......
2008-09-07 00:15:00
STAFF
The driver of a minivan that ran a red light in a crash that killed a Lancaster County couple in May will not face criminal charges, the Berks County district attorney told the Reading Eagle newspaper Friday. Jay and Jean Good, both 58, of Lititz, were killed May 18 as they were driving home on......
2008-07-09 01:35:00
KIM O’BRIEN
Monday marked a milestone for a young Lititz woman critically injured in a May traffic wreck.Jacy Good, 21, moved to Bryn Mawr Rehabilitation Hospital on Monday afternoon. She had been at Reading Hospital since May 19, after a wreck killed her parents and left her in critical condition....
2008-06-07 01:40:00
KIM O’BRIEN
It was barely three weeks ago when Jacy Good, 21, was critically injured in a traffic wreck that killed her parents, Jay R. and Jean Good of Lititz.On May 18, the family was driving home from Jacy's graduation at Muhlenberg College when a truck struck their vehicle on Route 222 in Berk......
2008-05-21 01:49:00
MICHAEL YODER and KIM O'BRIEN
A steady stream of family and friends walked through the doors of Bethany United Church of Christ in Ephrata on Tuesday evening.They came to offer prayers of healing, peace and comfort for the family of Jay and Jean Good, the Lititz couple killed Sunday in an automobile crash after attendi......
2008-05-20 01:48:00
MICHAEL YODER and KIM O'BRIEN
In 1974, Jay and Jean Good started building their own house on Lincoln Road, just east of Brunnerville.The couple raised their two children, Jared and Jacy, in that house, which appears to be a work in progress to this day.On Monday, a ladder lay against the house for an unfinished ......