In followup to our April 11 post about parking restrictions, we contacted decisionmakers and reconsidered old rules. Now we're happy to announce removal of the 'No Parking' sign! The sign was posted decades ago to address car show goers, but it only exacerbated the park’s problems by discouraging rule-abiding visitors and, in that way, increasing opportunities for others to make trouble with impunity. We’re grateful for the coordination of N Middleton Asst. Public Works Direc

After selling a part of Cave Hill Nature Center to the Turnpike Commission as required by the highway widening project, the Carlisle Borough Parks and Rec Department has allocated the $17,500 toward building nature trails at another park--Thornwald--on the other side of town. The allocation is a saddening reflection of a long-standing pattern of public neglect. In 1984 the edge of the property with the facility which is now Bekins Ace Moving was eased for a utility right-of-w

Visit Cave Hill and you’ll likely bend down to pick up some litter, only to notice thousands of identical, black, plastic pieces on the Conodoguinet's shores in piles of hundreds and bobbing along the edge. Thousands more of the disks, which are not biodegradable, are lodged everywhere upstream and on the banks, and will float down later in the year. Aquarium owners might recognize the pieces, shaped like wagon-wheel pasta, as treatment media designed to provide surface area

We’re happy about removal of the “no parking sign” and also want to accommodate community members who get to Cave Hill under their own power. For Carlisle’s carless--including the less privileged, teens, and some Dickinson students—it’s the only option for transportation, and the park takes on especial importance as their best opportunity to access outdoor recreation. Overall, twenty thousand people live close enough to pedal to the park in less than twenty minutes, and doing