The upcoming West Side Neighbors meeting on Monday May 19th at 6:30 will be held at 252 A street (Friends Meeting House) and a representative from the Carlisle Police Department will be attending to listen to residents concerns about crime, drugs and other unwanted activity in our community. Please come out and bring your friends,… Read More West Side Neighbors Meeting with Carlisle Police Representative
What: The Lifelong Impact of a Criminal Record Panel Presentation When: Wednesday January 15th 7-9pm Where: Carlisle Area School District Swartz Intermediate Auditorium 623 West Penn Street, Carlisle Presenters: John A. Abom Abom & Kutulakis, LLC, David J. Freed Cumberland Count District Attorney Robert P. Kline, Esq. President, Cumberland County Bar Association Nick Matash, Esq.MidPenn Legal Services Samuel E. Miller, Cumberland County Chief Juvenile Probation Officer… Read More The Lifelong Impact of a Criminal Record-Presentation at CASD Swartz Intermediate Auditorium
Eric Veronikis of the Patriot has put together a 3 piece story about the increasing crime that Carlisle has seen in the past 2 years. He interviews local officials, residents and police. A few westsiders were interviewed for the piece including Curtis Woodbridge, Lissy Weirich, Charles Petty, Jim and Ginny Hertzler and Iris Martinez. They… Read More The Patriot Covers Carlisle Crime Increase in 3 Part Story
We usually use this blog as a way to spread good news and keep things positive but sometimes we do have to discuss important issues that are negatively affecting our community. Last week Carlisle saw its first murder in 5 years. It was in the Northwest Quadrant and while reading the article about the murderer… Read More Violence in our Community, Public Safety and Criminal Sentencing
The following recap was provided by Hope Station and posted on their Facebook Page. Additional write ups from the Patriot and Sentinel. Several weeks ago Charles Petty walked outside of his house to ask some young men to leave his property. When they didn’t like his request, one of the men hit Petty with a… Read More Take Back the Streets Town Meeting Recap
First, let’s start by thanking the 30 neighbors who showed up to discuss ideas about the Tot Lot. It was such a great group of people with diverse thoughts on what the Tot Lot could become. There were a few neighbors whose homes border the park and their perspectives were extremely important to the conversation.… Read More Heberlig-Palmer Tot Lot Meeting Recap
This is of course a no brainer, but this article in the Sentinel connects the recent shootings with prior violence in the borough. By and large, our town is full of good neighbors but these few stand outs are tarnishing the town’s image. Hopefully, we will all start to demand that our town returns to… Read More Recent Violence Related to Previous Incidents in Carlisle
Ok, I like to keep this blog positive and promoting positive things happening on the West Side but I’m going to make an exception today. Today, I went home for lunch and left only to find police tape on the corner of my block. Someone was shot within a block of my home. Our neighborhood… Read More Shooting on the West Side
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