Last week we heard from the school superintendent of Randolph Central Schools in Cattaraugus County, New York, who placed blame for a local budget’s failure to pass on both the Amish, and those he claimed “used” the Amish to “flood the vote”. In that post I noted that those Amish living in the district, and thus having every right to vote, were likely motivated by…
You’re probably aware that the Amish vote much less often than non-Amish do. But a notable minority still do vote in general elections, and on local matters. So it’s not that odd to hear of Amish people voting. But I’d never seen a story quite like this before. In a new report, a school superintendent in New York is complaining about Amish participation in a…
A pair of videos have been making the rounds showing an Amish fisherman and a boy – who I would guess is his son – hauling away a giant fish after a successful catch. The fish is a muskellunge, better known as a “muskie” – and you can tell by the way the man is lugging it on his back that it is a hefty…
According to local officials,Amish traffic in Branch County, Michigan has been destroying roads – despite the county spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to maintain them. And unlike in other cases, this goes beyond standard buggy traffic. From the Coldwater Daily Reporter: [Manager Jay] Miller said that despite hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on Ray-Quincy, Copeland, and Hamman Roads over the last three years,…
There is a plan to build a buggy lane on U.S. 6, a highway in the Nappanee, Indiana settlement. But residents of Bremen, a town in the community, say their concerns are being ignored as the plan moves forward, seemingly full speed ahead. The Indiana Department of Transportation apparently promised residents “open houses” to discuss the topic – which reportedly never happened. It’s described as…
The Township calls this a “recurring issue”: people – it seems they mean primarily Amish people – building structures such as horse barns without following the rules. The current matter involves a man in East Earl Township Earl Township* (Lancaster County, PA), reported a few days ago at Lancaster Online. *Corrected: the township in question is Earl, which is not the same as East Earl….
That’s according to one letter to the editor appearing at Lancaster Online – from a local person living in the heart of Lancaster County, PA. The letter-writer, Dennis, sounds fed up with what he describes as Amish e-transport riders being “oblivious” to traffic. And he has a few things to say about what he’s seen on local roads. I have heard of backlash to e-scooters…
We’ve been following the story of the Amish schools who faced fines reaching six figures for failing to adhere to New York’s vaccine requirement for school age children. The children in question were Amish, and the schools in question were Amish-run schools. Previously, New York provided a religious exemption, but that ended in 2019. The Amish in turn rejected the requirement to make sure their…
The mayor of a village in Tioga County, New York is drawing attention to a complaint that has existed for a long time – that Amish contractors don’t have to follow the same rules as non-Amish contractors. More: WAVERLY — After tempers flared last month during a Town of Barton meeting in which contentions arose from whether the Amish should be required to obtain building…
Back in March, we looked at the case of three New York Amish schools which were fined a six-figure sum for refusing to comply with state vaccination requirements. In 2019, the three schools were each hit with fines in the tens of thousands of dollars, for a total of $118,000. Just to be clear, these fines concern unvaccinated Amish children attending Amish-owned, Amish-run private schools…