Here’s the story as published by The Item, Clinton, MA– https://www.telegram.com/story/news/local/the-item/2021/06/28/sterling-board-reorganization-does-not-take-traditional-turn/5330979001/ The dissembling, manipulative, underhanded, game-playing, power-hungry duo, Cranson and Kilcoyne, want to continue running Sterling Town Government as the mini-Banana Republic they organized. It’s way past time to take them both out. Unfortunately, neither had an opponent to their re-elections. Stay tuned. J.G.
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THE 104 LAKESHORE DRIVE EXTENSION OWNER/OCCUPANT’S APPLICATION TO THE STERLING Z.B.A. FOR A “SPECIAL PERMIT”–REMEMBERING THE 55 LAKESHORE DRIVE “SPECIAL PERMIT” CARNIVAL OF ILLEGALITIES
The Sterling Zoning Board of Appeals (Z.B.A.) has scheduled a public hearing on the 104 Lakeshore Drive Extension Owner/Occupant’s Application for a “Special Permit” “to allow for the extension, alteration, or change to a pre-existing non-conforming structure for the purposes of building a Single Family House” on that lot. That lot and surrounding parcels canContinue reading “THE 104 LAKESHORE DRIVE EXTENSION OWNER/OCCUPANT’S APPLICATION TO THE STERLING Z.B.A. FOR A “SPECIAL PERMIT”–REMEMBERING THE 55 LAKESHORE DRIVE “SPECIAL PERMIT” CARNIVAL OF ILLEGALITIES”
ANOTHER LAYER OF EXPENSIVE BUREAUCRATIC BULLSH*T ON THE WAY???–SELECT BOARD TO DISCUSS ESTABLISHING “LAND USE & PERMITTING DEPARTMENT”
The Sterling Select Board’s 23 June 2021 Agenda (amended twice) includes this item: “Discuss the establishment of a Land Use & Permitting Department”– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/agendas/2021_6_23_agenda3.pdf Just what Sterling, a Town of 7800 people, needs!–another layer of bureaucrat payroll patriots inside the Municipal Building, at taxpayer expense, pretending to perform useful tasks while really scrounging make-work andContinue reading “ANOTHER LAYER OF EXPENSIVE BUREAUCRATIC BULLSH*T ON THE WAY???–SELECT BOARD TO DISCUSS ESTABLISHING “LAND USE & PERMITTING DEPARTMENT””
SELECT BOARD TO NAME ITS $79,559/YEAR ‘GOFER,’ DOMENICA TATASCIORE, AS “INTERIM DEPARTMENT HEAD FOR THE INSPECTIONAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT”
THE MAY 2018 STERLING ANNUAL TOWN MEETING AUTHORIZED THE HIRING OF A TOWN PLANNER, TO PREPARE A NEW TOWN MASTER PLAN, ONLY In response to out-loud representations made by the Select Board during the May 2018 Sterling Annual Town Meeting the voters then present authorized the hiring of a Town Planner for the SOLE PURPOSEContinue reading “SELECT BOARD TO NAME ITS $79,559/YEAR ‘GOFER,’ DOMENICA TATASCIORE, AS “INTERIM DEPARTMENT HEAD FOR THE INSPECTIONAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT””
AT THE 2021 STERLING ANNUAL TOWN MEETING 100-110 SHEEPLE SHOWED UP AND GAVE IT TO THEMSELVES AND EVERYONE ELSE IN TOWN “GOOD AND HARD”
Massachusetts citizenry, for the most part, have devolved from April 1775 Revolutionary spirit, the “shot heard ’round the world”, and Revolutionary War doggedness, to their current much-reduced status as government-official-following herd “sheeple,” an accurate term devised many years ago by, I believe, Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr. The New England Town Meeting form of governmentContinue reading “AT THE 2021 STERLING ANNUAL TOWN MEETING 100-110 SHEEPLE SHOWED UP AND GAVE IT TO THEMSELVES AND EVERYONE ELSE IN TOWN “GOOD AND HARD””
TOWN MEETING COMMENTS BY MARION LARSON, PRESIDENT OF THE STERLING LAND TRUST, CONTRIBUTED TO THE NORTH STERLING/WEKEPEKE AQUIFER PROTECTION ZONE’S ARBITRARY SIZE REDUCTION
At the 14 June 2021 Sterling Annual Town Meeting, in a surprising move, Marion Larson, President of the Sterling Land Trust, a purported land conservation entity, took to the microphone and announced her support for reducing in size, arbitrarily, the North Sterling/Wekepeke Aquifer Protection Zone corresponding exactly with Massachusetts DEP’s current Wellhead Protection Zone IIContinue reading “TOWN MEETING COMMENTS BY MARION LARSON, PRESIDENT OF THE STERLING LAND TRUST, CONTRIBUTED TO THE NORTH STERLING/WEKEPEKE AQUIFER PROTECTION ZONE’S ARBITRARY SIZE REDUCTION”
NORTH STERLING/WEKEPEKE AQUIFER–STERLING PLANNING BOARD, Z.B.A., AND SELECT BOARD ARE PRETENDING THAT “PISSING IN ONE PART OF THE POOL WON’T AFFECT THE REST OF IT”
The Sterling Planning Board, Select Board, and Z.B.A., courtesy of Z.B.A. member Joseph Curtin, are all behind reducing in size, arbitrarily, the North Sterling/Wekepeke Aquifer Protection Zone/Groundwater Protection District Zoning Overlay Map, by means of Annual Town Meeting Warrant Article 46, to promote industrial development in the Pratt Junction area at a time when Sterling’sContinue reading “NORTH STERLING/WEKEPEKE AQUIFER–STERLING PLANNING BOARD, Z.B.A., AND SELECT BOARD ARE PRETENDING THAT “PISSING IN ONE PART OF THE POOL WON’T AFFECT THE REST OF IT””
TOWN MEETING WARRANT ARTICLE 38–THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS SPONSORS INCREASED POPULATION DENSITY ACROSS STERLING DESPITE THE TOWN’S PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY SHORTAGE
While the Town suffers from a public water supply shortage its Zoning Board of Appeals is busy promoting increased population density across Sterling by means of Town Meeting Warrant Article 38, “ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT USE,” that would replace the existing Sterling Protective (Zoning) By-Law provisions for “Accessory Apartment Use[s],” including the requirement that such anContinue reading “TOWN MEETING WARRANT ARTICLE 38–THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS SPONSORS INCREASED POPULATION DENSITY ACROSS STERLING DESPITE THE TOWN’S PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY SHORTAGE”
LATEST U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SURFICIAL MATERIALS (GEOLOGY) MAPS MORE THAN SUPPORT PRESENT NORTH STERLING/WEKEPEKE AQUIFER PROTECTION ZONE BOUNDARIES–VOTE DOWN WARRANT ARTICLE 46
The present North Sterling Aquifer Protection Zone Overlay Map– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/file/file/part15.pdf — corresponds exactly with the Massachusetts DEP Zone II Wellhead Protection Map for that area– http://maps.massgis.state.ma.us/images/dep/omv/wspviewer.htm Click on the ‘hand’ symbol, move that map on your screen, then ‘zoom’ into Pratt Junction to see the area cross-hatched in lavender/purple. The latest U.S. Geological Survey SurficialContinue reading “LATEST U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SURFICIAL MATERIALS (GEOLOGY) MAPS MORE THAN SUPPORT PRESENT NORTH STERLING/WEKEPEKE AQUIFER PROTECTION ZONE BOUNDARIES–VOTE DOWN WARRANT ARTICLE 46”
THE ROTTEN SMELL OF YET ANOTHER SELECT BOARD POWER GRAB–THE CITIZENS’ PETITION (WINK, WINK) WARRANT ARTICLE TO ELIMINATE THE D.P.W. BOARD
In case you hadn’t noticed, the dishonest hacks constituting the Sterling Select Board are completely out of control and running amok. They want to be the new “Permit Granting Authority” (PGA) under the thoroughly bent, crony crafted, developer promoted proposed new Earth Removal By-Law (Article 47, 2021 Annual Town Meeting Warrant– ( https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/uploads/2021_6_14_atm_sterling_warrant_0.pdf ) —Continue reading “THE ROTTEN SMELL OF YET ANOTHER SELECT BOARD POWER GRAB–THE CITIZENS’ PETITION (WINK, WINK) WARRANT ARTICLE TO ELIMINATE THE D.P.W. BOARD”
STERLING, MASSACHUSETTS, OVERWATCH 