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Vaccine Mandate After All? Amish School Parents Lose 2nd Round — Court Finds Case “Without Merit”
Amish parents in New York face a setback in the latest of a back-and-forth series of court decisions. In news released Tuesday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against the Amish parents and schools in the long-running case over vaccine requirements in New York schools. As a reminder, the current NY law requires vaccines not only in public schools, but in privately-operated ones…
Amish Father: County Threatened To Take My Children Over Outhouse Permits
The county, for its part, “vehemently den[ies]” that claim, according to new reporting at Cowboy State Daily. The issue is one we looked at last week in the Amish community at Hulett, Wyoming. A non-Amish rancher claimed that Crook County officials were driving Amish families away due to how it was handling a dispute over Amish use of outhouses. The man in question claimed that…
Amish Owner Planned to Breed His Injured Dog, Then Put Her Down. A Shelter Got Her First
A really sad, and maddening, story was reported last week out of upstate New York. Some of this is hard to read. Via WWNY: POTSDAM, New York (WWNY) – Warning: the photos and description of the dog’s injury may be upsetting The St. Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a suspected case of animal cruelty after a severely injured dog was brought to the Potsdam…
Michigan Is America’s #6 Amish State — Here Are Its 10 Biggest Communities
Michigan is home to America’s sixth-largest Amish population. Over 20,000 Amish live in more than 50 settlements across the state. These ten communities are the largest in Michigan, based on the most current Amish population estimates. Population numbers via Young Center for Anabaptist & Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College (source link at bottom). 1. Centreville Centreville (St. Joseph County) Community founded: 1910 Total Amish population:…
$30,000 Daily Fines? Rancher Claims “Stupid” Outhouse Crackdown Is Forcing Amish Out Of Wyoming Community
Another conflict over outhouses has roiled an Amish community in America’s least-populated state, with a rancher claiming threats of massive fines have caused local Amish families to start leaving. Hulett in Crook County is the site of Wyoming’s largest and oldest Amish settlement – about 190 people according to Young Center estimates, or roughly 40 families according to the report by Kate Meadows at Cowboy…
New York Is America’s #5 Amish State — Here Are Its 10 Biggest Communities
New York is home to America’s fifth-largest Amish population. Over 25,000 Amish live in dozens of locations across the state. These ten communities are the largest in New York, based on the most current Amish population estimates. Population numbers via Young Center for Anabaptist & Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College (source link at bottom). 1. Heuvelton Heuvelton (St. Lawrence County) Community founded: 1975 Total Amish…
Wisconsin Is America’s #4 Amish State — Here Are Its 10 Largest Communities
Wisconsin is home to America’s fourth-largest Amish population, with over 27,000 Amish living across the state. These ten communities rank as the biggest in Wisconsin, based on the most current Amish population estimates. While Wisconsin does not have many very large Amish communities, the state makes up for it in number – having the second-most individual Amish settlements of any state. Population numbers via Young…
A Return To Virginia’s Oldest Amish Community — And The Woman Who Left Something Beautiful Behind (15 Photos)
Reader Shawn has been visiting the Amish community at Pearisburg, Virginia for over a decade now. The first visit of Shawn’s we saw here was back in 2014, followed by a return in 2016 to check on the newly opened Walker Valley Market. I’ve made a couple of visits myself – one on a rainy February day in 2020, and another in December 2020 when…
Ohio Has Over 86,000 Amish — These Are the State’s 10 Biggest Communities
Ohio is home to America’s second-largest Amish population, with over 86,000 Amish living across the state. These ten communities rank as the biggest in Ohio, based on the most current Amish population estimates. Population numbers via Young Center for Anabaptist & Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College (source link at bottom). 1. Holmes County Area Holmes County Area (Holmes, Wayne, Coshocton, Tuscarawas, Stark Counties) Community founded:…
1-800-CHATGPT: How Some Amish Are Using A.I.
An Amish man named Lewis Wengerd needed to research an excavating machine. He didn’t have computer access at the time. His church bans smartphones. So he picked up his flip phone and dialed 1-800-CHATGPT. That’s not the only way the Amish are using AI — but it might be the most memorable. I had never known Chat GPT has an actual number you can call…
