Amish Controversies

An Amish teen in the New Wilmington, PA community has been charged with a DUI after registering a 0.47 blood alcohol level. His buggy got into a fender-bender with an SUV, leading to the charges. According to the report in New Castle News, the young man in question “faces one count each of driving under […]

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A new bill may require Amish buggies in Wisconsin to reduce the size of horseshoe studs in the warmer months. Typically the spikes used in winter need to be larger to get traction in the snow and ice. It turns out this is overkill in the spring, summer and autumn. And it’s really beating up […]

Continue Reading Multiple Communities Face Amish Buggy Road Damage

What do racing horses have to do with Plain buggies? And why do some feel safer in a buggy than a car? Reporter Corey Kilgannon recently visited Plain communities in New York to learn about buggy safety from the local Mennonite and Amish populations. The result is a pair of articles in the New York […]

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Sam Mullet was sentenced in 2013 to 15 years in prison for orchestrating beard and hair-cutting attacks on Amish. Mullet later saw his sentence reduced to a little under 11 years. If you missed the story at the time, Mullet was the bishop of a breakaway Amish group which began following decidedly un-Amish practices, detailed in the […]

Continue Reading Sam Mullet Asks For Release Due to Attorney Mistakes

A Pennsylvania court has ruled against an Amish family, ordering them to do something they staunchly oppose: After a legal battle spanning more than five years, a Pennsylvania court has agreed with a lower court ruling that ordered a Warren County Amish family to connect to a municipal sewer, even though doing so requires the […]

Continue Reading PA Court: Amish Family Must Connect to Electric-Powered Sewer System

Should Amish be required to install seat belts and other safety features common to motor vehicles? That’s the idea behind a new ordinance up for consideration tomorrow in Wood County, Wisconsin: Horse-drawn vehicles would need windshields, seat belts, child car seats and rear-view mirrors if officials in Wisconsin’s Wood County pass an ordinance that will […]

Continue Reading Should Amish Buggies Have Car Safety Features – Like Seat Belts? (Updated: Ordinance Fails)

Most Amish farmers are conventional farmers. But organic farming has taken off in some communities over the past decade or two despite some practical and cultural roadblocks. One of those communities is the Kalona, Iowa settlement, where today you’ll find over 90 certified organic operations, described in a recent Washington Post article as “one of the […]

Continue Reading Amish Dairies Unhappy Over “Big Organic” Milk Practices

Amish salve-maker Samuel Girod received his sentence Friday: LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – A federal judge sentenced a Bath County Amish farmer to six years in prison on Friday morning. A federal jury handed down guilty verdicts against Samuel Girod in March for misbranding products. After serving six years, Girod will have three years of supervised […]

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You may recall the story of Kentucky Amishman Samuel Girod, convicted by a federal jury in March: The Kentucky Amish farmer made and sold several homemade products, some of which suggested bold curative properties, in a business running for over 20 years. These include a “black salve” called “To-Mor-Gone” (with a sales pamphlet claiming it to […]

Continue Reading Amish Appear At Kentucky State Capitol Ahead of Salve-Maker Sentencing

From the Bangor Daily News: Despite a very divided vote by the legislature’s IFW Committee, the state’s Amish hunters won the right to wear red instead of orange while deer hunting in Maine. LD 426 was sponsored by Representative McCrea of Fort Fairfield, who was joined at the hearing by several young Amish men who testified […]

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