“It's just not appropriate,” uttered many prominent business owners on N. Hanover Street. They were referring to plans to build a new day center to help Carlisle's homeless, which would be located in a building behind 132 N. Hanover Street.

The plan to build a day center, which would provide necessities such as showers, an address and phone number to put on job applications, and career placement services to Carlisle's homeless, was brought before the town in mid-February. The property on N. Hanover Street was generously offered to Carlisle CARES as a potential site for the rent of $1 a year....more