KENTON, Ohio — Amish from northwest Ohio are promising to turn out in force this week for a meeting of a county health board seeking to evict two families from new homes that lack the required modern wells and septic systems.
Last summer, the Kenton-Hardin County Health Board said it would start enforcing rules that any new home must have a proper well and septic system – something the simple-living, outhouse-using Amish have never had to do. Health inspectors have not forced existing Amish homes to change.
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