Editing Homer City, Pennsylvania (section)

== Contemporary Homer City ==
[[File:Homer City Main Street 2014.jpg|View of a church on Main Street, 2014|thumb|right|200px]]
[[File:KBTP to KAOO trip 20241027 17.jpg|thumb|left|Homer City from the air, October 2024]]
Businesses within the borough that provide goods and services to residents include a bank, a grocery store, a dollar store, restaurants, hair salons, physicians' offices, a distillery and other service-oriented businesses.  The community is served by the Borough of Homer City Police and the Homer City Volunteer Fire Department.  Among the oldest existing structures in Homer City are its churches including Homer City United Methodist Church, Homer City United Presbyterian Church, Hope Evangelical Lutheran Church, Holy Protection (a.k.a. St. Mary's) Byzantine Catholic Church and Saints Peter and Paul Orthodox Church.

The [[Homer City Generating Station]], located in Center Township, once had the tallest chimney in the United States and the third tallest in the world. It was demolished by implosion on the morning of March 22, 2025. 

The borough's local radio station is 1160 [[WCCS]] '''"The Voice of Indiana County"'''.

Homer City gained national and international prominence in the early twentieth century as the location of the Prairie State Incubator Company - particularly after its products appeared on display at various exhibitions and trade shows across the country.  After its production facilities were twice destroyed by fire, the company built a new state-of-the-art "fire-proof" facility but ceased production shortly thereafter.  In 1920 the same building became the new home of industrial toolmaker, the Syntron Company.  (Its name derived from an early product known as the SYNchronous elecTRONic hammer).  It  was, for many years, the single largest employer within the boundaries of the Borough of Homer City.  It continued to operate, after a merger, as a division of Chicago-based FMC Corporation until June 2007.<ref>{{Cite web|title = New owner to occupy idled Homer City plant|url = http://triblive.com/x/blairsvilledispatch/s_516974.html#axzz3xVY4WGWN|website = TribLIVE.com|access-date = 2016-01-17|language = en-US}}</ref> Over the last several decades Homer City Generating Station, located in Center Township, has also made national news many times. Non-Lethal Technologies, Inc. has a Homer City address, even though its physical location is near Aultman and Jacksonville. The company manufactures CS Gas that has been used to suppress protests in Bahrain,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/opinion/sunday/kristof-repressing-democracy-with-american-arms.html?_r=1&|access-date=20 June 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 17, 2011|author=NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF|quote=but there is also anger that the tear gas shells that they sweep off the streets each morning are made by a Pennsylvania company, NonLethal Technologies.|title=Repressing Democracy, With American Arms}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Weaponizing Tear Gas: Bahrain's Unprecedented Use of Toxic Chemical Agents Against Civilians|year=2012|publisher=Physicians for Human Rights|isbn=978-1-879707-68-9|page=7|url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/PHR_Reports/Bahrain-TearGas-Aug2012-small.pdf}}</ref> Turkey<ref>{{cite news|title=Call to End Supply of Tear Gas to Turkey |url=http://themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=37900 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130617151538/http://themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=37900 |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 17, 2013 |access-date=20 June 2013 |newspaper=The Media Line |date=June 17, 2013 |author=Steve Dorsey |quote=The logo and name of Homer City, Pennsylvania-based “Non-Lethal Technologies” are printed on the thousands of used tear gas canisters that have been left behind on the ground after being fired by police in Istanbul }}</ref> and Greece.<ref>{{cite web|title=Greece|url=http://facingteargas.org/mp/17/greece|work=Facing Tear Gas|publisher=War Resisters League|access-date=20 June 2013}}</ref> Each CS canister produced by the company shows the address of its manufacturer [http://blogs.aljazeera.net/sites/default/files/imagecache/blogpostFeaturedImage/images/weapons.jpg]