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updated: Sat Jul 19, 2008 03:35 am

Amish News

News on Amish continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.

3 hrs ago | Anniston Star

ACLU to defend Amish on buggy light charges

The American Civil Liberties Union will defend a group of Amish men in Kentucky charged with not displaying slow-moving vehicle emblems on their horse-drawn buggies.

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Related Topix: Activism, ACLU, Religion, Mayfield, KY, Graves County, KY

Fri Jul 18, 2008

Norwalk Reflector

Spending time with the Amish

While most of the country was celebrating the Fourth of July, eight people were on the wagon.

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Related Topix: Holmes County, OH, Potatoes, Life, Food, Vegetables, Meat, Chicken, Wedding, Religion

Stonewall Argus & Teulon Times

Our Amish experience

This past May, my wife Linda and I were both speakers at a Pastor's and Wives Conference in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

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Related Topix: Lancaster Metro, Lancaster, PA, Religion

Thu Jul 17, 2008

Associated Content

The Amish Resisting Assimilation

The Amish are a unique group of people who have been able to resist conforming to modern America.

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Related Topix: Religion

Wed Jul 16, 2008

USA Today

ACLU to defend Amish on buggy light charges

The American Civil Liberties Union will defend a group of Amish men in Kentucky charged with not displaying slow-moving vehicle emblems on their horse-drawn buggies.

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Related Topix: Union College (Kentucky), Union College (New York), ACLU, Religion

Naples Daily News

Around Town: A look into the Amish lifestyle

Buggies come from far and wide to celebrate Horse Progress Days in Holmes County, Ohio every four years.

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Related Topix: Holmes County, OH, Golden Gate University, Religion, Agriculture, Science

News Journal

Even Amish fret about high fuel costs

Inside his workshop near Dover, Bennie Troyer, an Amish man, shapes and assembles wood.

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Related Topix: Dover, DE, The College of Wooster, The University of Findlay, Religion

Mon Jul 14, 2008

Crime Scene KC

KY Amish don't want to display lights, 'slow-moving' signs on their buggies

If they do not want to obey traffic laws, then they should have access to public streets... The Amish are spunges.. they hide behind their religion to avoid certain activities, yet take public welfare.. As a ...

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Related Topix: Religion

Sun Jul 13, 2008

CourierPostOnline

Even for Amish, prices 'going the way of oil'

Even their buggy whips cost more. The runaway price of oil and other commodities is gumming up the works in this southern Ohio Amish community, where steadfast faith and rock-hard traditions make up life's ...

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Related Topix: Baked Goods, Life, Bread, Food, Religion

Sat Jul 12, 2008

FOX19 Cincinnati

ACLU to defend Amish on buggy light charges

The American Civil Liberties Union will defend a group of Amish men in Kentucky charged with not displaying slow-moving vehicle emblems on their horse-drawn buggies.

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Related Topix: ACLU, Religion, Graves County, KY

Fri Jul 11, 2008

Home News Tribune

Family farm in Watchung expanding

Aspen, a miniature white and gray donkey sunbathing in the sunshine-filled, dusty, sand corral at the front entrance to the Kafka Farm, was oblivious to the activity just behind her and down the dirt road.

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Related Topix: Watchung, NJ, Religion

American Chronicle

Amish Funeral Services Differ Dramatically From More Common Farewells Among the English

In visiting my hometown in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, I had the opportunity to sit down with an Amish woman and her family.

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Related Topix: Lancaster Metro, Lancaster, PA, Video Games, Religion, Opinion

Thu Jul 10, 2008

WPSD-TV Paducah

Amish Community Forced to display Symbol They say is Against Their Religion

A Graves County, Kentucky judge ruled Thursday that Amish Buggies will have to display orange triangle reflector signs.

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Related Topix: Graves County, KY, Religion

Watertown Daily Times

Amish family in court for son

With a bit of dirt on his face, a quiet Eli Hershberger doesn't mind being held by his mother.

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Related Topix: Religion, St Lawrence County, NY, Winthrop, NY

Wed Jul 09, 2008

Red Bluff Daily News

Scott "Q" Marcus: Busy, busy, busy.. no time at all

Two young moms in sweatpants and sneakers, pushing streamlined strollers, jogging in tandem, rounded the corner.

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Related Topix: Wedding, Religion

Mon Jul 07, 2008

Voices Online

I'm sick of this Society and the Amish Life is looking more attractive. I'll convert

Submitted by squealearlysque... on Mon, 2008-07-07 10:42. Well, it is possible, and some people have done it, though relatively few - although, the conversions we usually hear about are those crazy Amish girls ...

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Related Topix: Religion

ETruth.com

Goshen: Freedom Fest was a crowd pleaser

The sun was hot, the sky a brilliant blue with some puffy clouds, and an occasional breeze wafted across the tarmac, making the setting for the 2008 Goshen Freedom Fest just about perfect.

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Related Topix: Religion, US Military, Fort Benning, uS Army, United States Military Academy

Sat Jul 05, 2008

The Leaf-Chronicle

Even Amish feeling pinch of fuel prices

UNITY, Ohio - They may use horses instead of autos for transportation, but the rising cost of gasoline is still pinching the wallets of members of an Amish community in southern Ohio.

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Related Topix: Religion

Fri Jul 04, 2008

WYFX-TV Youngstown

Big Horse & Buggy

Mesopotamia, Ohio is a place where the old world meets new. Amish country and it's now home to what's believed to be the largest wooden horse and buggy in the world.

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Related Topix: Mesopotamia, OH, Religion

Augusta Free Press

Veteran EMU professor passes away

Albert N. Keim, 71, professor emeritus of history at Eastern Mennonite University, died June 27, 2008 at University of Virginia Medical Center.

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Related Topix: Hartville, OH, Religion, Mennonites

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