Despite concerns from the Amish community, the Johnson County Board of Supervisors is moving ahead with a plan to repave a county road outside of Kalona, Iowa. The project will resurface a portion of ...

KALONA — Vernon Yoder and his wife, Inus, tended to their own tasks on a recent afternoon, Inus quilting while he wrote letters. It was starting to get dark in the house with no electric lights to ...

KALONA, Iowa — This small town has become a landmark in the organic-farm movement, and it has nothing to do with foodies or hippies. Instead it has been Amish farmers who, in their suspenders and wide ...

KALONA - The rural Golden Delight Bakery will get its water from Kalona following City Council action. The business, which is within Kalona's two-mile jurisdiction and is owned by Nathan Miller, ...

KALONA, Iowa — Listen to the squeaking sound of a sign swaying in the spring wind. It is a tin sign, leading to the Community Country Store. A bearded Amish man in a broad-brimmed black hat rides ...

A conversation with one of her Amish neighbors near Kalona left Mary Swander feeling uneasy. It was March 13, five days after Iowa announced its first COVID-19 patient, and the elderly man Swander was ...

Ruth Irene Miller did not know when she awoke that June morning in 1996 that she had slept her last night in her father's house. But as the day wore on, it became clear that soon, very soon, she would ...

KALONA, Iowa — This small town has become a landmark in the organic-farm movement, and it has nothing to do with foodies or hippies. Instead it has been Amish farmers who, in their suspenders and wide ...