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Amish Outhouses in Kansas
A Kansas county has become the latest American community to take a hard line against the Amish use of unregulated outhouses, according to a news story last week. The adversaries explored the issue at a meeting of the Bourbon County Commissioners, who indicated that they were studying the matter. Apparently, fairly conservative Amish families began […]
Cambria County Amish Defy the Laws
The Schwartzentruber Amish in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, have been in the news last week for the same legal issues that have disturbed their community for over a year. Two families in the sect apparently removed padlocks from their homes and moved back in on November 19th. They openly violated Judge Norman Krumenacker’s order, issued in […]
Amish Appeal Judicial Lockout Orders
The Schwartzentruber Amish in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, went back to court to seek relief from the harsh penalties imposed by county judge Norman Krumenacker earlier this year. On the judge’s orders, an Amish school was padlocked in March by county sheriffs because the outhouses near the school did not meet state and county specifications for […]
Amish Victims of Cambria County, Pennsylvania
Andy Schwartzentruber was released from the Cambria County, Pennsylvania, jail last week after completing his 90 day sentence for refusing to bring his outhouses into compliance with the orders of a judge. The Amish man feels that state and county regulations specifying construction and cleaning details of outhouses violate his religious rights. He had provided […]
Persecute the Pennsylvania Amish — and Compromise
Judge Norman A. Krumenacker in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, who sent an Amish man to jail in March, last week ordered two other Amish families to be evicted from their homes. At a court hearing on Friday, he gave the two families the weekend to remove their belongings from their buildings. He ordered sheriff’s deputies to […]
Amish Man Sent to Prison in Pennsylvania
A district judge in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, sent a conservative Amish man to jail for refusing to compromise with officials over the outhouses he provides at a school on his property. Judge Norman Krumenacker last week found Andy Schwartzentruber in contempt of court for failing to bring the outhouses into compliance with regulations that govern […]
Inadequate Amish Privies
Officials in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, are obsessing about the inadequacies of outhouses at two new farmhouses built for Schwartzentruber Amish families. According to news reports last Thursday, County Judge Norman Krumenacker hopes to work out a compromise with the Amish families that are violating the county sewer codes and the officials charged with enforcing the […]
Amish Outhouses in Pennsylvania
The latest chapter in a drama that made the national news in June played out in a Cambria County, Pennsylvania, courtroom last Thursday when a District Judge upheld a lower court’s findings against an Amish man. Andy Schwartzentruber, owner of land on which an Amish school is located, continues to defy official county sewage disposal […]
Amish Outhouses and Pennsylvania Bureaucracy
Two men from the ultraconservative Schwartzentruber Amish sect each face 90 days in jail for not cleaning their outhouses according to Pennsylvania state law. Andy Schwartzentruber, a 52 year old man and the owner of property in rural Cambria County in west-central Pennsylvania, and Sam Yoder, 53, an elder of a school on the property, […]
