U.S. Justice Department intervenes to stop Sugar Grove Township from requiring Old Order Amish to abandon privies and connect ...

Old Order Amish in Warren County will no longer be required to use an electric component of a sewer system following a ...

Federal authorities have stepped in to resolve a lawsuit involving the Sugar Grove Area Sewage Authority (SUGASA) which ...

After years of legal wrangling, Sugar Grove’s Old Order Amish residents will legally be allowed to use their outdoor privies rather than be required to use Sugar Grove’s municipal sewage system. The ...

Under the agreement, Amish households will be exempt from the sewage system requirement and allowed to use privies, according ...

After years of lawsuits, court proceedings and, finally, asking for the federal government to intercede, Old Order Amish families in Sugar Grove Township can use their privies. It seems like a trivial ...

There are more than 90,000 Amish and Old Order Mennonite people living in Pennsylvania, which is the largest population in the country, with the highest population centered in Lancaster County.

Scholars define the Old Order Amish by two distinctive features: 1) the use of horse-and-buggy transportation, and 2) the use of Pennsylvania German dialect in church services and daily conversation.

The following has been edited for length and clarity. I was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, one of the main Old Order Amish places in the US. I grew up on a small farm in a little ...