HOMER, Minn. – In a rebuff to the township board, the people of this Winona suburb voted 139-84 to save their 103-year-old town hall. Nostalgia reigned. Many Homer residents had started their schooling in the building before it was converted into the town hall. The Town Board had wanted to build a new town hall, which would have been far less costly than bringing the original structure up to grade. The citizen vote was at the Witoka tavern and banquet hall, which is 8-1/2 miles up County Road 15. The town hall back in Homer was too small to fit the 200-some people who wanted to vote.
