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Republic Services' Garbage Truck Rear-Ends Amish Buggy in Michigan
2016-09-15 13:00:00| Waste Age
The two adult occupants of the buggy suffered minor incidents, while the minor and the garbage truck driver were uninjured.
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Can the Amish win over the Islanders? Cheap farmland triggers migration from Ontario to P.E.I.
2016-04-11 04:57:34| Real Estate - Topix.net
An Amish man rides his horse and buggy down a street in Milverton, Ontario. P.E.I.'s newcomers are economic migrants.
Amish furniture industry changing with times
2015-06-13 14:46:50| Furniture - Topix.net
When customers walk into one of the many retail stores that sell locally crafted furniture, they're often looking for quality first and the product second. "Sometimes they are looking for specifics, and some buy if something jumps out at them," Galen Swartzentruber, manager of Walnut Creek Furniture, said.
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U-turn in life: Amish to cake decorator to semi driver
2014-07-10 06:25:10| Trucking - Topix.net
An Amish buggy, it's not exactly 80 tons of monstrous truck. A grocery store job frying doughnuts and decorating cakes, it's not exactly hauling twin beds of freight 10 hours in the dark, wee hours overnight.
Guess whos cashing in on fracking? The Amish
2013-12-27 17:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Since the Amish are opposed to cars, electricity, and orgies, you might think theyd frown on money, too. Like, Keep your wealth in hay bales could totally be an Amish saying, or maybe bonnets over Benjamins. But while greed and materialism arent part of an Amish paradise, nearly 40 Amish families in eastern Ohio are taking piles of cash from oil and gas companies. Chesapeake Energy and others are paying them hundreds of thousands of dollars, tax free, in order to drill on their property....