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FOLKS, if you watched the 26 February 2026 joint Finance Committee-Capital Budget Committee meeting on Sterling-Lancaster Community TV you would have learned that for the next Fiscal Year’s proposed budget Town officials have spent to within $12,000 of our Town’s Proposition 2 ½ levy limit, meaning that we avoided a Proposition 2 ½ Override VoteContinue reading “AN ACROSS-THE-BOARD DISGRACE. STERLING’S FECKLESS, GUTLESS, INCOMPETENT, FISCALLY IRRESPONSIBLE OFFICIALS SPEND TO WITHIN $12,000 OF OUR TOWN’S PROPOSITION 2 ½ LEVY LIMIT AND PLAY SHELL GAMES USING WHAT’S LEFT OF ‘FREE CASH,’ THE STABILIZATION FUND, AND THE CAPITAL INVESTMENT FUND”

If you thought that ANY Town of Sterling Board, Committee, or Department gives a rat’s ass about YOU, THE TAXPAYERS, YOU’D BE ABSOLUTELY WRONG. Just before the joint Sterling Finance Committee-Capital Budget Committee 26 February 2026 meeting wrapped up Select Board member/pernicious dope Maureen “Our Lady of Perpetual Bullshit” Cranson, sitting in the audience alongContinue reading “THE STERLING FINANCE COMMITTEE, CAPITAL BUDGET COMMITTEE, SELECT BOARD, AND D.P.W. BOARD AGREE ON A PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN TO PUSH APPROVAL OF THE OUTRAGEOUS, RE-PACKAGED D.P.W. GARAGE MAHAL BOONDOGGLE AT $25,535,000 FOR 28,000 SQUARE FEET, OR $912 PER SQUARE FOOT, A HIGHER PER-SQUARE-FOOT COST THAN THE ORIGINAL D.P.W. BOONDOGGLE PROPOSAL SHOT DOWN AT THE 13 NOVEMBER 2025 SPECIAL TOWN MEETING”

HEY ALL OF YOU SILLY STERLING PROPERTY TAXPAYERS. I BET YOU THOUGHT THAT STERLING TOWN OFFICIALS, INCLUDING THE SELECT BOARD, THE D.P.W. BOARD, THE TOWN ADMINISTRATOR, AND THE D.P.W. SUPERINTENDENT SELECTED THE VERTEX COMPANIES, LLC TO BE THE STERLING D.P.W. GARAGE MAHAL PROJECT MANAGER AFTER A THOROUGH, COMPREHENSIVE, OBJECTIVE STATE-WIDE SEARCH FOR THE MOST COMPETENTContinue reading “HMMM, HAVE YOU BEEN WONDERING HOW VERTEX GOT THE STERLING D.P.W. GARAGE MAHAL TRUCK PALACE PROJECT MANAGEMENT CONTRACT??? WELL, PLEASE MEET STEPHEN P. THERAN, VERTEX SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER, WHO JUST HAPPENS TO RESIDE AT 19 HARDSCRABBLE ROAD, STERLING, HIS 7.63 ACRE COMPOUND ASSESSED AT $1,266,200. NOW WE STERLING TAXPAYERS ARE HELPING TO PAY HIS STERLING PROPERTY TAXES”

Sterling folks have been wondering why Weston & Sampson Engineering keeps getting Sterling Town Government contracts to the apparent exclusion of other engineering firms. It’s a curious phenomenon, is it not??? Doesn’t look like a fair, level playing field, does it??? Well, turns out that Weston & Sampson advertises various services such as the following,Continue reading “HMM, HAVE YOU BEEN WONDERING WHY WESTON & SAMPSON ENGINEERING KEEPS GETTING STERLING TOWN GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS??? WELL CHECK THIS OUT!!!”

So the tag-along doormats constituting the Sterling Finance Committee and Capital Budget Committee had another joint meeting on 15 January 2026 during which the Sterling D.P.W. Garage Mahal/Truck Palace Boondoggle was discussed in its apparent repackaged form. You can watch/listen to the discussion beginning at 1:08:20– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxMbKu0NHew&list=PL2jc5fA2LZPpKEbAAJqpkKjVZxl3DvK_w&index=2 You see, the Sterling D.P.W. Board Pricks believeContinue reading “ARROGANT, OUT OF CONTROL STERLING D.P.W. PRICKS BELIEVE THAT STERLING TAXPAYERS/VOTERS WILL SWALLOW A RE-PACKAGED 28,000 SQUARE FOOT GARAGE MAHAL /TRUCK PALACE AKIN TO THE TOWN OF NORWOOD (POPULATION 31,611) TRUCK PALACE ALSO DESIGNED BY THOSE COMMI$$ION-HUNGRY PARASITES, WESTON & SAMPSON ENGINEERING”