Sheetz plans rebuild of first Lancaster County store: Top 5 most-read stories Sept. 30 - Oct. 6 [ICYMI]

Each Monday, our digital team takes a look at last week's top stories on LancasterOnline.

We look at news, sports, business, life, culture and local history.

Here are the most-read stories between Monday, Sept. 30, and Sunday, Oct. 6.

After tearing down the first convenience store it opened in Lancaster County, Sheetz plans to rebuild a version of it that is bigger and better.

The Sheetz near New Holland at 698 W. Main St. debuted in 1996, making it the first local store for the Altoona-based convenience store operator. The 4,100-square-foot store closed Sept. 15 and has since been torn down.

The rebuilt store is expected to open early next spring, according to Sheetz spokesperson Harry Hammel.

A retired Octorara Area School District teacher will spend two years on probation for masturbating after getting a waxing treatment at a Berks County salon.

A jury in August convicted Charles Graydus, 69, of Caernarvon Township, Berks County, on charges of indecent exposure, open lewdness and disorderly conduct for his behavior at a salon in Wyomissing Borough in 2022, while he was employed by the school district. Graydus was sentenced last Wednesday.

Graydus had a waxing appointment Nov. 20, 2022, and he began making sexual and moaning noises during the session, according to charging documents. The female clerk told Graydus to get dressed and leave. Instead, he got off the table and began masturbating in front of her.

Clemens Food Group closing Kunzler & Co. plant in Lancaster city, laying off 193 workers

Clemens Food Group, the parent company of Kunzler & Co. in Lancaster city, announced last Friday it is closing the plant Dec. 7 and laying off 193 employees.

The last day coincides with the end of production for all remaining customers.

Clemens, a large pork product company based in Montgomery County, moved all production of the icon Kunzler brand out of the plant this summer. The plant now is only producing private label hot dogs.

About 145 production and maintenance employees are members of the United Food & Commercial Workers Local 152, down from 153 a few weeks ago. The union has been in contract talks with Clemens.

4. 'I didn't think it was that bad': West Earl Township man sentenced for raping 3 minors over more than a decade

President Judge David Ashworth, visibly frustrated, looked down at Amos Ebersol as he stood hunched at the podium before him.

Ebersol, who is Amish, had just pleaded guilty to three charges of rape and 15 other sex crimes for raping three girls over the course of 14 years. In exchange for his plea, the Lancaster County District Attorney's Office had agreed to a sentence of 12 to 24 years in prison.

"Why should I accept this plea?" Ashworth asked.

"I don't know what to say," Ebersol, 60, said.

Ebersol, of West Earl Township, was charged March 20 with raping the girls between 2006 and 2020, accounting for more than 70 assaults. Investigators said the girls confronted Ebersol in their adulthood, and he apologized, telling them, "I didn't think it was that bad."

Investors in a Lancaster-based ATM network will soon be mulling buyout proposals of their investments which haven't been paying out since April .

Daryl Heller, owner of the ATM network, presented the broad outlines of a proposed buyout for the fund's roughly 2,700 investors during a webinar last Tuesday. Heller said investors would get specific proposals but outlined several scenarios that showed investors receiving all of their money back.

"No one will end up with anything less than what their initial investment was," said Heller, who wore a dark suit jacket and opened collared white dress shirt during the roughly 40-minute presentation he gave by himself.

The buyout proposal offers a 30% payment for the missed quarterly payment from the second quarter of this year and then lump-sum payouts based on how long ago someone invested.