A fascinating correlation manifested itself during Sterling’s 2022 Annual Town Meeting conducted Monday night, 2 May. Carl Corrinne, real estate developer and hack Chair of the Sterling Planning Board; former Select Board member Richard Lane, this guy– https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/2005/09/20/head-police-academy-transferred-after/51253541007/ –who, when in office, was up the A$$ of local developers, particularly Brian Foley’s; Brian Foley himself; and Patrick Fox, Chair of the Sterling Zoning Board of Appeals a/k/a The Developers’ Doormat, all supported the attempted crony-zoning of Performance Zone 1 to Commercial. Turns out that Mark and Karen Packard, who appeared before Corrinne’s Planning Board, the Board that sponsored this attempted re-zoning, in December 2021 and January 2022, when and where they proposed certain commercial enterprises within Performance Zone 1 on Redemption Rock Trail between Dana Hill Road and Route I-190, own SEVEN (7) parcels WITHIN that zone, one (1) by means of the KK Realty Trust, Karen Packard Trustee, and six (6) by means of the following: 44 RRT, LLC; 37 RRT, LLC; 35 RRT, LLC; and 32 RRT, LLC. ‘RRT’ stands for Redemption Rock Trail. All of those Limited Liability Corporations are listed to 12 Michael Lane, Sterling, the Packards’ home address, as shown by reports on file with the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Corporations Division.
Note that Lane, Corrinne, and Foley all had a hand in promulgating and/or drafting the developer-promoted, crony-crafted, absolutely abominable ‘Earth Removal By-Law’ rammed through for approval during the 2021 Sterling Annual Town Meeting. Fox endorsed that execrable piece of crap, out loud, during the 2022 Annual Town Meeting.
The attempted crony-zoning of Performance Zone 1 to Commercial failed, thankfully, this year just as it did last year. All the homeowners along Redemption Rock Trail between Dana Hill Road and John Dee Road can breathe a sigh of relief. We hope that that weasel’s weasel, Corrinne, takes the hint.
SO, why did Corrinne, Lane, Foley, and Fox ALL support retaining a three (3) member Select Board rather than expanding the Select Board to five (5) seats???
ANSWER: Because Select Board members ‘Our Lady of Perpetual Bullshit,’ Maureen Cranson, and the ‘Bent Buffoon,’ John Kilcoyne, are wholly owned by local developers. Fox is a Select Board appointee.
It is reported, and is to be fervently hoped, that Kilcoyne, the ‘Bent Buffoon,’ will not run for re-election in 2023.
During the 2022 Sterling Annual Town Meeting voters passed an Article expanding the Select Board to five (5) seats and requesting that the Select Board petition the Massachusetts Legislature for an Act approving that expansion. Assuming that that happens, and in view of Kilcoyne’s reported 2023 planned departure, local developers will have to work harder to compromise an expanded Sterling Select Board.
It is reported that Corrinne, Lane, Foley and Fox, following adjournment, left the 2022 Annual Town Meeting in butthurt condition.
J.G.
STERLING, MASSACHUSETTS, OVERWATCH 