Amish in the News

BERKS COUNTY, PA - On June 26, 1959, the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission dedicated a roadside plaque along Old Route U.S. 22 in Upper Bern Township, just a mile west of Shartlesville, commemorating the Northkill Amish congregation that was established there in 1740.

Jennifer Staggemeyer of Waukon, riding in the passenger seat Feb. 17 on the drive home from visiting the Twin Cities, managed to get her phone up just in time to record a short clip of an Amish Iowa man skiing alongside the road, pulled by a horse and buggy that seemingly had no driver.

DAVIESS CO, IN - An alleged Ponzi scheme involving the Amish community is being called a “landmark” case of fraud—not for the dollar amounts, but because of the number of victims involved.

HONEY BROOK, PA - That was the message this week after a fire destroyed an Amish dairy barn on the 1800 block of Beaver Dam Road early Wednesday morning.

BLOOMFIELD, IA — Just about everyone in the Heartland has seen the Amish community riding in buggies.

What do you do if you’re Amish and you need to get somewhere faster and/or further than your horse and buggy can take you? You hire an Amish taxi service.

Anticipation is high for the TWA Hotel. Opening on May 15, the new hotel has transformed Eero Saarinen’s 1962 TWA Flight Center into a new lodging option for travelers passing through New York City’s John F. Kennedy Airport.

LEESBURG, VA - This N' That Amish Outlet has multiple locations in Northern Virginia. Its Leesburg location helped a non-profit that needed to house its horses.

Two of the most traditional Anabaptist groups — Old Order Amish and Old Col­ony Mennonites — were only vaguely aware of each other 24 years ago.

OTTUMWA, IA — A trial date has been set for a Heartland man facing drug trafficking charges.

SULLIVAN, IL — One man died and a woman was injured in a house explosion that occurred Friday night northeast of Sullivan, along County Road 1700N west of Jonathan Creek Road.

WEST MAHONING TOWNSHIP — The temperature hovered near single digits Friday evening as firefighters rushed to extinguish a fire that engulfed a local furniture shop between Smicksburg and Trade City.

DAVIESS COUNTY, MO — Two amish brothers from southeast Iowa are charged with multiple sex crimes in northern Missouri.

NEW YORK - In what is being billed as a toast to American craftsmanship, two Amish-owned firms in Ohio beat out competitors from three Asian countries to win the contract for the TWA Hotel. Opening in Spring 2019, it will feature custom-built millwork proudly crafted in the U.S.A. by expert Amish woodworkers.

WILLSBORO, NY - Horse-drawn buggies have become a familiar sight on roads in the Boquet Valley as the Amish relocate to the area.

As you drive through Elkhart County you probably see a lot of horse and buggies alongside the roads.

AARONSBURG, PA - An Amish family is without a home after it caught fire Thursday. 

ST. ANNA, WI — The Mast family didn’t set out with a master plan to open an Amish bakery.

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ALBANY, NY — The state Appellate Division of Supreme Court has granted an appeal made by a St. Johnsville man who was sentenced to a 40-year term in state prison in May 2015 for abusing six Amish boys over the course of a seven-year period.

STRASBURG, PA - Visitors to the Clinic for Special Children (CSC) just outside Strasburg, Pennsylvania, might be forgiven for thinking they’ve made a wrong turn.

Amish dairy farmers who lost their milk buyer the first day of the new year have been given another chance to maintain the livelihood they've held for generations. 

ALBANY, NY – A former Montgomery County farmer convicted in 2015 of sexually preying on six adolescent Amish boys has a new chance at freedom after a mid-level appeals court  reversed more than two dozen of his convictions Thursday.

NEWPORT, N.Y. — New York State Police in Herkimer responded around 8 a.m. Wednesday to reports of a hit-and-run crash on Summit Road in the town of Newport.

TOWN OF NEWPORT, N.Y. - New York State Police are investigating a crash involving a horse and buggy in Herkimer County.

MIDDLEFIELD, OH  — Work to widen roads and make other safety improvements is planned in an area of Ohio’s Amish country plagued by crashes resulting in injuries, according to federal and state officials.

A group of Amish dairy farmers have lost their milk buyer, putting their livelihood and way of life at risk, as a crisis deepens in America’s dairyland.

Daniel Weaver does not vote, drive a car, read a paper, listen to music, watch sport of any kind, own a mobile phone or use a computer. But as we eat the food grown in his garden outside the window, he confesses that he did once see a film. He refuses to disclose what, brushing aside my questions as we sit talking around the dining table with his wife, five of his eight children and one grandson. “I am not proud of that,” he says. “I went against my parents’ wishes.”

MIDDLEFIELD, OH - Fire officials in northeastern Ohio say a blaze that killed a 2-year-old child and injured 10 members of an Amish family began with a lamp that used liquid fuel.

As an auctioneer pressed his Hartly audience toward the highest bid possible for a set of dishes, an Amish man watched from the side of the tent, his arms crossed as he leaned on a tent pole.

Thelma Miller feels the pop, but tells herself not to worry. She’s 31 weeks pregnant, too early for her water to break. But this baby is coming nonetheless.