The Columbus Dispatch reported that on Tuesday night, Henry Yoder read a letter signed by the Hardin County Amish community's seven bishops asking the board to reconsider its orders. Yoder owns one of the houses that are not in compliance.
Joni Hershberger, who moved his wife and their nine children back home to Hardin County from Circleville last summer, lives in one of the houses. Henry Yoder owns the other home, where Emory Gingerich lives with his family.