Anyone with half a brain and paying attention saw this WRSD-caused financial disaster coming for years. While WRSD total student enrollment plummeted by more than 1000–14.5%– from Fiscal Year 2010 to now, the feckless patronage-cycling hacks constituting the WRSD Administration and District Committee kept hiring unneeded personnel, bloating the ranks of mau-mauing unionized parasites clamoring for guaranteed raises as they exploded the WRSD budget from $81.3 million in FY 2015 to $129,515,225 this Fiscal Year, a WHOPPING 59.3% increase in just eleven (11) fiscal years. The jump from last Fiscal Year’s budget of $121.9 million was HUGE, even after it was revealed that WRSD students were performing 3 grade levels behind in reading and mathematics. For years brilliant WRSD Superintendents and Committee members handicapped students by rejecting tried-and-true phonics as a learning method. Yeah, they’re friggin’ brilliant alright.
Here in Sterling a succession of SELECT BOARD WRSD-PANDERING TWITS played along. They figured that if they bucked the local tax-fattened WRSD employee-hyenas and the mommies and daddies of students they’d have a hard time getting elected/re-elected. So screw ALL the property taxpayers, full-speed ahead! YEAH, I’m looking at YOU, Kirsten Newman, insufferable go-along virtue-signaling invertebrate twit, and YOU, Maureen “Our Lady of Perpetual Bullshit” Cranson. By the way, Kirsten Newman is up for re-election in May 2026. I’m going to have a bunch of yard signs made up saying “FOR SELECT BOARD: ANYONE BUT KIRSTEN NEWMAN.” Will an intelligent, principled, stalwart, fiscally prudent challenger PLEASE step up???
In the last 13 years ONLY TWO Sterling Finance Committee Chairs had the cojones to challenge WRSD budget requests ‘above [Sterling’s] state-required net minimum contribution’ at Sterling Annual Town Meetings—the late Larry Pape in 2012 and the late George Handy a couple years ago, may God rest them both. SO WHAT DID STERLING’S WRSD ASS-KISSING SELECT BOARD PU$$IES DO IN RESPONSE??? They refused to re-appoint them to the Finance Committee when their terms expired soon after. LESSON LEARNED BY STERLING FINANCE COMMITTEE APPLICANTS AND MEMBERS—you can’t display any cojones or sound independent judgment upsetting ANY of the owners of the asses the Invertebrate Sterling Select Board Poseurs are kissing or you won’t get appointed/re-appointed to the Sterling Finance Committee. The result: there are absolutely NO COJONES being displayed by the Finance Committee. They didn’t even buck the absolutely OUTRAGEOUS and ABSURD Sterling D.P.W. $33 Million/37,000 square foot Garage Mahal Boondoggle, and they aren’t bucking the Garage Mahal Boondoggle Sequel, because the D.P.W. Superintendent, the D.P.W. Board, and the Select Board are all engaged in MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL CRONY-CLASS ASS-KISSING at Sterling property taxpayers’ expense.
During the 15 January 2026 Joint Sterling Finance Committee-Capital Budget Committee Meeting it was revealed that Holden, Paxton, and Rutland have been backed against the wall and will have general, operating budget Proposition 2 ½ Override votes at their respective May-June 2026 Annual Town Meetings. We know how they got there—THEIR Select Boards and Finance Committees pandered to the incompetent, degenerate, profligate patronage-cycling hacks constituting the WRSD Committee and Administration. They kicked the taxpayer-supplied money can down the road until the Proposition 2 ½ debt limit road ran out. If THEIR respective Select Boards have ANY balls– and that is a legitimate question– they will make approval of the Holden, Paxton, and Rutland WRSD budget requests above their Towns’ state-required net minimum contributions–NOT THEIR TOWN OPERATING BUDGETS– contingent upon passage of Proposition 2 1/2 overrides in town-wide votes.
Sterling will be the next victim, thanks primarily to our feckless, incompetent, invertebrate, vacuous Select Board, and secondarily to our Finance Committee who, in the face of WRSD overreach, have firmly maintained their thumbs up their asses since said Select Board kicked the late George Handy to the curb. CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU ALL!!!
My next piece, in a few days, will be about the STILL-OUTRAGEOUS Sterling D.P.W. Garage Mahal Boondoggle Sequel.
Stay tuned.
J.G.
STERLING, MASSACHUSETTS, OVERWATCH 