Kachemak City News

Homer City Manager Walt Wrede, second from left, speaks at the Anchor Point-Homer Natural Gas Line Forum Nov.

Once each year the assembly meets in Homer and once in Seward. This was the Homer meeting, and the City Hall meeting room was packed.

"You can't always get want you want," goes the Rolling Stones song, "but if you try sometimes, well you just might find, you get what you need." Last week, the southern Kenai Peninsula got a taste of Mick Jagger's philosophy when Gov.

Sean Parnell vetoed the Homer Area Natural Gasline Project again this year, stymying plans for obtaining a less expensive heating fuel source for the town.

Sean Parnell announced his budget decisions Wednesday at a press conference. Homer's quest to gain lower cost energy in the form of a gasline is pushed off for yet another year after Gov.