Homer City Hall was packed wall-to-wall on Tuesday night as a flood of Homer residents waited to be heard during the Library Advisory Board meeting.
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In July, Madeline Veldstra started the petition after feeling like certain books in the children section of the library were not age-appropriate. Discussions during the meeting ranged from residents describing their worries about the sexual images the books had, to concerns about inclusion and debates over what is considered appropriate for young people.
“Well, we represent every kind of viewpoint imaginable here in the library,” Berry said. “As we always emphasized, nobody is forced to read anything that they don’t like.”
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