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 ...

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 ...

Members of Old Order Amish community in Sugar Grove Township have long opposed local ordinances mandating that they abandon outhouses and connect residences to municipal sewer system U.S ...

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 community surrounded by mountains and valleys — I was always ...

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

Jonathan Haines has studied genetic factors that contribute to diseases of aging and “successful” aging in the Old Order Amish. A growing health concern in the US population ... Haines has maintained ...

The American Experience documentary The Amish portrays Old Order Amish people and communities in North America. They are a distinctive Christian subculture that traces its roots to the 16th ...

“The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act protects the rights of religious communities across the country, including the Old Order Amish, from the enforcement of land use rules ...

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

The religious teen grew up in the Amish community of Eldridge in Tennessee ... her community members had to wait to be 21 ...