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On 18 December 2025 the absolutely clueless, delusional Sterling Finance Committee met and discussed the 15 December 2025 Sterling D.P.W. Facilities Committee’s so-called ‘Charette’ ( https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/charette )—the 2 hour and 15 minute discussion during which commission-hungry Weston & Sampson Engineering parasites presented various plans for a somewhat less expensive Sterling D.P.W. ‘Garage Mahal’ after theirContinue reading “MEMO TO THE ABSOLUTELY F#CKING CLUELESS STERLING FINANCE COMMITTEE AND D.P.W. BOARD: NO, STERLING TAXPAYERS WILL NOT VOTE $25 MILLION, OR EVEN $16 MILLION, FOR A STERLING D.P.W. ‘GARAGE MAHAL LITE’”

If The Wizard of Oz were re-written today then Sterling’s Finance Committee and Capital Budget Committee members would be the new characters singing “If I Only Had A Spine.” It is readily apparent that the Sterling Town Government payroll is seriously bloated, with consequent skyrocketing health insurance costs, and that layoffs, hiring freezes, and salaryContinue reading “THE SPINELESS STERLING FINANCE COMMITTEE-CAPITAL BUDGET COMMITTEE MEMBERS’ PLOY TO AVOID NEEDED STERLING TOWN GOVERNMENT PAYROLL CUTS, WAGE FREEZES, AND A GENERAL PROPOSITION 2 ½ OVERRIDE VOTE IN ORDER TO KEEP SCREWING STERLING TAXPAYERS INCREMENTALLY: “MINI DEBT EXCLUSIONS””

WELL FOLKS, from 4 December 2025 until tonight, 15 December 2025, I’ve been frozen out of the WordPress login and unable to get access to this Blogsite. Turns out the culprit was VPN software on my computer that somehow froze the WordPress login function even when the VPN was disconnected. The VPN was just updatedContinue reading “A QUICK AND DIRTY OVERVIEW OF THE 8 DECEMBER 2025 STERLING ZONING FORUM”

SO, the Sterling Town Government virtue-signaling DEI Commies—I’M LOOKING AT YOU, KIRSTEN NEWMAN— in conjunction with their hired out-of-town blow-in payroll patriot tool ‘Town Planner’—I’M LOOKING AT YOU, STEPHEN WALLACE—have drafted an absolutely GAG-INDUCING “Inclusionary Zoning” By-Law that, henceforth, would force developers in Sterling to incorporate into their developments housing units–15%– for low-income folks. It’sContinue reading “8 DECEMBER 2025 ‘PROPOSED ZONING CHANGES FORUM’ WARNING NO. 2—THE BULLSHIT PROPOSED  DEI/COMMIE “INCLUSIONARY ZONING” BY-LAW IS MOST LIKELY UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND CAMBRIDGE’S VERSION HAS JUST BEEN CHALLENGED IN MASSACHUSETTS LAND COURT”

Sterling’s out-of-town blow-in payroll patriot ‘Town Planner,’ together with the Sterling Planning Board Chaired by self-serving, self-dealing developer weasel Carl Corrinne, among other proposed zoning changes to be discussed during the Sterling 8 December 2025 ‘Zoning Forum,’ propose a “Compact Development Overlay District” comprised of two parcels, totaling 181 acres, near the Sterling Airport. BothContinue reading “8 DECEMBER 2025 STERLING ‘PROPOSED ZONING CHANGES FORUM’ WARNING NO. 1—THE BOGUS “COMPACT DEVELOPMENT OVERLAY DISTRICT” PROPOSED FOR 181 ACRES NEAR THE STERLING AIRPORT”

Have you been wondering about the actors intent on overrunning Sterling with new housing developments? Well, look no further than the Montachusett Regional Planning Commission. The Montachusett Regional Planning Commission, headquartered in Leominster, is CHOCK FULL OF ASSLICKS WHO SUPPORTED SO-CALLED ‘MBTA MULTI-FAMILY HIGH DENSITY ZONING DISTRICTS’ EVEN IN PLACES SUCH AS STERLING WAAAAY OUTSIDEContinue reading “DON’T LEOMINSTER OUR STERLING!!! OUT-OF-TOWN BLOW-IN STERLING ‘TOWN PLANNER’ STEPHEN WALLACE COLLABORATES WITH KIRSTEN NEWMAN, ERIC NEWMAN, AND THE MONTACHUSETT REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION TO PROPOSE INTENSIVE NEW HOUSING DEVELOPMENT IN STERLING”

Paul Brodmerkle is the co-owner of land off Metropolitan Road, Sterling, very near Wachusett Reservoir, the drinking water supply for 3 million people in eastern Massachusetts, upon which he proposes to build a fire hazard Solar Farm and Lithium-Ion Battery Backup Bank. He is also the manager of South Meadow Solar LCC, the proponent. HeContinue reading “THE GUY WHO WANTS TO BUILD A FIRE HAZARD SOLAR FARM WITH LITHIUM-ION BATTERY BACKUP BANK IN STERLING CLOSE TO THE WACHUSETT RESERVOIR IS IN VIOLATION OF 250 CMR [CODE OF MASSACHUSETTS REGULATIONS] 5.02(4)”

CONGRATULATIONS INTELLIGENT AND SANE STERLING TAXPAYERS, YOU SAVED YOURSELVES A BUNDLE OVER 30 YEARS BY VOTING DOWN THE STERLING D.P.W. GARAGE MAHAL BOONDOGGLE, AN ABOMINATION AND OUTRIGHT INSULT AT $33 MILLION FOR 37,000 SQUARE FEET, OR $892 PER SQUARE FOOT. This shameful episode demonstrated for all that the Sterling D.P.W. Superintendent, the D.P.W. Board, theContinue reading “PIGS GET FED, HOGS GET SLAUGHTERED. THE $33 MILLION STERLING D.P.W. GARAGE MAHAL BOONDOGGLE GOES DOWN BY A VOTE OF 373 TO 183”

Here’s a suggestion for the brilliant Sterling D.P.W. Facilities Committee and the brilliant Sterling D.P.W. Board— CONTACT PEZZUCO CONSTRUCTION, INC. AND GET AN ESTIMATE FOR A FABRICATED STEEL D.P.W. BUILDING. Here’s what the Town of Berlin, MA, D.P.W. got for a new steel building in 2018: CHECK OUT THE COMPLETED TOWN OF BERLIN D.P.W. BUILDINGContinue reading “GEE, THE NEARBY TOWN OF BERLIN, MASSACHUSETTS, GOT A NEW D.P.W. FABRICATED STEEL BUILDING FOR $4.1 MILLION IN 2018”