Amish News

Julia Swartz paints in the heart of downtown Lancaster. From her second floor studio and gallery above the Prince Street Cafe, filled with huge windows, she can see all the hustle and bustle of the city.

By DOUGLAS BELKIN TOPEKA, Ind. -- Dan Bontrager is a 54-year-old Amish man with flecks of gray in his long beard.

Some Amish bishops in Indiana weakened restrictions on the use of telephones. Fax machines became commonplace in Amish-owned businesses.

Three-year-old Kevin was determined to go along fishing and thought he had to have his life jacket on before he left.

I live on Route 41 on the Delaware side so I know how hazardous it can be, but this entire tragedy could have been avoided if the young 19-year old hadn't been in a rush to get whereever he was going and allowed this buggy driver some space.

When my wife Debi and I moved to this area in 2001, one of the more familiar aspects of the York-Lancaster region was the Amish and their communities.

Daughter Elizabeth celebrated her 15th birthday. We went over to Jacob's for a cook-out. I took cake, ice cream and strawberries in honor of Elizabeth's birthday.

BLUFFTON -- Lynn Miller is not a typical Mennonite. He has a beard, but no mustache.

So, when Jessica Best, who has recently completed Cardiff University's postgraduate diploma in newspaper journalism, was asked to submit an original idea for a travel journalism scholarship, she did just that, proposing a trip to Sugarcreek, Ohio, to report on the Amish media scene.

Channel 3 Weather Bulletin: A Severe Thunderstorm Warning is active for ASHLAND, MEDINA AND TUSCARAWAS, CRAWFORD, RICHLAND AND SUMMIT, PORTAGE, STARK AND WAYNE until 8:15 PM, A Flash Flood Warning is active for WAYNE, ASHTABULA, GEAUGA, PORTAGE AND TRUMBULL until 10:00 PM A severe thunderstorm watch continues for all of northern Ohio through 10 PM.

This is a daily diary of a recent Saturday here at the Eicher home: 7 a.m.: It is Saturday, so we slept later this morning.

BURTON, OH In the heart of Geauga County's Amish country, buggies and pedestrians share the road with cars and trucks.

A Cambria County judge who ordered the barns of two Amish families padlocked because their properties lack modern sewage is allowing them to store harvested grain and hay there.

Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco prepares an exhibition named 'Amish Abstractions: Quilts from the Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown' for the period between November 14, 2009 and June 6, 2010.

It came after more than a decade-long fight. It came after a small group of farmers - most of them Old Order Amish - took the extreme step of battling a local municipality in county and state courts and winning.

The Civil War, Amish and Lots of Lots of Chocolate We are finally catching up on our blog - we enjoyed our time in southern Pennsylvania.

Ed Erozean, an owner of the new Kalona Family Restaurant, has a 'fly problem' he believes is caused by the Amish horse and buggy parking near his business.

We spent the past weekend in Indiana for my Aunt Barbara's funeral. It was exactly one month after her sudden death.

SHIPSHEWANA, Ind. -- Freeman Wingard is Amish, one of the so-called plain people, but he was living large.

What was demanded of them was too modern, so they refused -- politely, writes Sean Hamill.