HOMER, Minn. – The Homer Town Board, facing a packed crowd of unhappy townspeople, voted to delay a decision about tearing down the town’s old schoolhouse. There will be no action until March next year, the Board decided. The intervening months will be used to examine the costs of preserving the old school, now the town hall, versus a new town hall. The Board also agreed to create a website to post meeting times and agendas. Townspeople had protested that nobody had known about the Board’s decision to tear down the school. In recent days the whole town, population 190, had been plastered with neon-yellow posters to show up at the meeting.
Overflow crowd. The town hall was so packed that people had to stand outside for cellphone updates on what was going inside.