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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””

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”

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””

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”

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”

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”

Long-time Sterling resident Peter Monaghan kindly reminded me that the Town Meeting “Consent Calendar” procedure was intended and formerly used to speed through for approval only relatively minor and mundane Annual Town Meeting Warrant Articles. A tip of the hat to him. For a good example of such previously employed “Consent Calendar” methodology see theContinue reading “STERLING SELECT BOARD, PLANNING BOARD, AND ZBA REPROBATES NOW ABUSING “CONSENT CALENDAR” PROCEDURE”

The Sterling Finance Committee saps want to hire another Firefighter/EMT-Paramedic. SEE Article 27, Annual Town Meeting Warrant– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/uploads/2021_6_14_atm_sterling_warrant_0.pdf Is that to cover all the Sterling ambulance runs to Clinton because the unionized Clinton Fire Department EMTs/Layabouts rendered the middle finger salute to the Clinton Select Board and refused to get certified as Paramedics, whereas SterlingContinue reading “STERLING FINANCE COMMITTEE SAPS WANT ADDITIONAL FIREFIGHTER/EMT-PARAMEDIC HIRE–IS THAT TO COVER ALL THE STERLING AMBULANCE RUNS FOR CLINTON RESIDENTS???”

The Sterling Finance Committee, in its “Finance Committee Report” beginning this year’s Sterling Annual Town Meeting Warrant, says that “The Wachusett Regional School District increased their overall assessment by 1.44%…” imposed on Sterling. What the Finance Committee did not acknowledge is that, among the five Towns in the WRSD, Sterling has had the largest percentageContinue reading “STERLING FINANCE COMMITTEE MISLEADS BY OMISSION–THE WACHUSETT REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT “ASSESSMENT” HIDES ITS FULL BUDGETARY RACKET”

Our “Profiles in Courage” Select Board waited until the last day permitted–7 June 2021–under Mass. Gen. Laws Ch. 39, Sec. 10, before posting the Warrant for this year’s 14 June 2021 Sterling Annual Town Meeting. Despite the fact that they are shameless, nevertheless I assume that they are somewhat embarrassed by it. They should be.Continue reading “TWO PRO-TAXPAYER ARTICLES–NOS. 52 AND 53–ON THE STERLING ANNUAL TOWN MEETING WARRANT, SO SHOW UP AND VOTE FOR THEM”