After years of legal wrangling, Sugar Grove’s Old Order Amish residents will legally be allowed to use their outdoor privies rather than be required to use Sugar Grove’s municipal sewage system. The ...
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, ...
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.
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.