Washington, D.C. — Old Order Amish in Warren County will no longer be required to use an electric component of a sewer system following a court's approval that will settle a federal lawsuit.

Copies of Old Order Amish legal filings challenging Sugar Grove Township’s attempts to force the Amish to hook up to sewer lines are pictured. Times Observer file photo After years of legal wrangling, ...

Times Observer file photo Copies of Old Order Amish legal filings challenging Sugar Grove Township’s attempts to force the Amish to hook up to sewer lines are pictured. After years of legal wrangling, ...

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 ...

SUGAR GROVE, Pa. — For decades, Old Order Amish families in their tiny community in northern Warren County have resisted local officials over a critical component of daily Amish life — outhouses.

Peggy Noonan writes of “Trump and the Collapse of the Old Order” (Declarations, Feb. 1). In my view, however, Mr. Trump isn’t the new order. He’s a jolt this country needs to get back on ...

She deems it, correctly, I think, the collapse of the old order. That is fitting. It feels like a giving up and a giving over. Even those who oppose Trump, and for whatever reason, there is a ...

History: Established in the 1970s, this community is one of the fastest-growing Amish settlements in Iowa. The Bloomfield Amish are part of the Old Order Amish group and maintain a strict adherence to ...

The U.S. Justice Department has settled a lawsuit with a township in Warren County and its sewage authority over claims they violated the religious rights of Old Order Amish residents. Sugar Grove ...