Across the Fence: It’s threshing time in Amish country
Wisconsin – It was nice to know that people in the Amish community also read “Across the Fence.” I find it interesting that as I write about the way life was lived when I grew…
Amish meeting addresses drug concerns
Ohio — Approximately 200 Amish residents in Trumbull County gathered at the Mesopotamia fire station Monday evening for an open forum to discuss drug issues relating to heroin and methamphetamine. Then meeting was called at…
Eau Claire County Continues Evicting Amish
Wisconsin: Seven Amish families in the towns of Bridge Creek and Fairchild could be added to the number of Amish evictions enforced by Eau Claire County. Now Judge William Gabler has in essence ordered the…
World’s top chefs enjoy Amish food in Pa.
LANCASTER, Pa. — Yes, they partake of cocktails and a gala dinner at the tony Union Club on Park Avenue in New York, and lunch at the United Nations and the White House during their…
WINDSOR TOWNSHIP, Ohio – Two men arrested after Amish teens shot in Ashtabula County
July 31 Update WINDSOR TOWNSHIP, Ohio – Two men, Kenneth and Michael Jameson, are in Ashtabula County Jail following a shooting Saturday. A 17-year-old Ashtabula County girl and 18-year-old Daniel Burkholder of Geauga County were…
Horseless buggy: Amish carriage travels up to 50 miles using solar power
SULLIVAN — If something is worth inventing, it’s worth inventing again. Armed with that kind of reassurance, Sullivan entrepreneur Larry Yoder has gone ahead and reinvented the horseless carriage “because I had a ball doing…
Battle of beliefs: Amish fight Eau Claire County over building code requirements
Traditional Amish beliefs are butting heads with modern society in Eau Claire County, where county officials are meeting resistance by some of the county’s Amish residents to installing smoke detectors in their homes. One Amish…
Mennonite community ‘distressed’ after 42 children seized
GLADSTONE – A member of a Manitoba Old Order Mennonite community tells Global News that Child and Family Services took 42 children from their homes near Gladstone last week. “We are very distressed,” said a bearded man…
Amish man to serve up to 10-year prison sentence on sexual abuse charge
FAIRBANK, Iowa — A member of an Amish Community, William J. Yutzy, 30, of 33906 Hilton Road, Edgewood, formerly of 1370 Dillon Ave., Fairbank, pleaded guilty and was sentenced on one count of Sexual Abuse…
Tradition and temptation as Amish debate fracking
BALTIC, Ohio — In parts of Ohio and Pennsylvania where horse-drawn buggies clip-clop at the pace of a bygone era, Amish communities are debating a new temptation — the large cash royalties that can come…