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THE STERLING SELECT BOARD’S ONGOING EFFORTS TO STEAL MARYANNE MACLEOD’S DRIVEWAY, AND OTHER RELATED DISHONESTY

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND RELEVANT DEED LANGUAGE In or about 1929 the only farmhouse on Swett Hill Road (then Sweat Hill Road) burned down. Thereafter, the Town of Sterling abandoned Swett Hill Road as a public way. SEE https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXIV/Chapter82/Section32A Rights to use that abandoned way thereafter, in the event of a dispute by or among otherContinue reading “THE STERLING SELECT BOARD’S ONGOING EFFORTS TO STEAL MARYANNE MACLEOD’S DRIVEWAY, AND OTHER RELATED DISHONESTY”

THIRTY (30) MONTHS AND COUNTING–WE STILL DON’T HAVE A NEW TOWN OF STERLING MASTER PLAN BUT THE SELECT BOARD HAS A $75,000/YEAR ‘GOFER’ AT STERLING TAXPAYER EXPENSE

During the May 2018 Annual Town Meeting voters approved Warrant Article 27 and the hiring of a Town Planner to prepare a new Town of Sterling Master Plan. That was the Select Board’s sole expressed purpose for such hiring. Note that I moved to limit the new Town Planner to a one (1) year termContinue reading “THIRTY (30) MONTHS AND COUNTING–WE STILL DON’T HAVE A NEW TOWN OF STERLING MASTER PLAN BUT THE SELECT BOARD HAS A $75,000/YEAR ‘GOFER’ AT STERLING TAXPAYER EXPENSE”