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Bend over, Sterling Taxpayers, you’re about to get rammed yet again if the D.P.W. gets its wish! In addition to the $$$ Multi-Million Playing Fields Boondoggle Proposal—that while we are already right on the edge of a 2025 Proposition 2 ½ property tax override vote due to out-of-control WRSD budget bloat—here comes ANOTHER BOONDOGGLE. The D.P.W.Continue reading “GET READY FOR YET ANOTHER STERLING BUDGET BUSTER: THE D.P.W. ESTABLISHES A BUILDING SUB-COMMITTEE TO PROPOSE ITS ‘GARAGE MAHAL’”

As I’ve asked previously, how can we say ‘Good-bye’ to John Kilcoyne when he won’t go away? A fruit fly has more brains, more common sense, and bigger balls than that cipher. Reminder: Kilcoyne opposed expanding the Select Board from 3 to 5 members and, in fact, had a BIG sign made up that heContinue reading “FORMER STERLING SELECT BOARD YADAYADAYADA DOPE, AND CURRENT SELECT BOARD TOOL, JOHN KILCOYNE, GOES FOR A FINANCE COMMITTEE SLOT. THE FIX IS IN.”

As noted previously on this Blog site the WRSD’s peak enrollment occurred back in 2010 at 7493 students. By FY 2024 WRSD total student enrollment had fallen to 6676, a loss of 817 students—the equivalent of 54.5 empty classrooms using the WRSD’s own, claimed student-teacher ratio. It took 60 years—from its establishment in 1955 toContinue reading “DUE TO THE STERLING SELECT BOARD’S GUTLESS FAILURES TO CONFRONT WRSD BUDGET BLOAT STERLING TAXPAYERS FACE A LIKELY 2025 PROPOSITION 2 ½ PROPERTY TAX OVERRIDE VOTE. YEAH, SO WHY NOT TACK ON A $$$ MULTI-MILLION PLAYING FIELDS BOONDOGGLE TOO???”

I repeat the old Sterling joke about the notorious Developer Simpsons, father and son: “The Simpsons never bought a wetland that didn’t perc.” James Simpson, the son following in the footsteps of his notorious father, proposes to build two homes on land off James Patten Drive. BUT a Coldwater Fisheries Headwaters Tributary Stream flows rightContinue reading “STERLING’S BIGGEST, MOST NOTORIOUS SNAKE, JAMES SIMPSON, DEVELOPER, TO RE-APPEAR BEFORE THE STERLING PLANNING BOARD ON 12 SEPEMBER 2024. WILL SIMPSON BE PERMITTED TO DEGRADE THE COLDWATER FISHERIES HEADWATERS TRIBUTARY STREAM NEAR JAMES PATTEN DRIVE?”

Well folks, once again, here is Mass.Gen.Laws Ch. 40A, Sec. 3A— Mass. General Laws c.40A § 3A Multi-family zoning as-of-right in MBTA communities Updates (a) (1) An MBTA community shall have a zoning ordinance or by-law that provides for at least 1 district of reasonable size in which multi-family housing is permitted as of right;Continue reading “HOW TO PROVE THAT YOU’RE A GUTLESS STERLING TOWN GOVERNMENT MORON: PRETEND THAT MASS.GEN.LAWS CH. 40A, SEC. 3A APPLIES TO STERLING, THEN SELECT A PROPERTY WITH A POND, A WETLAND, AND A STATE-PROTECTED COLDWATER FISHERIES TRIBUTARY STREAM ON IT TO ZONE FOR ‘MBTA HIGH-DENSITY HOUSING’”

Unfortunately, folks, this will be a looong Blog post necessitated by the Sterling Planning Board’s Self-Dealing Developer Weasel, Carl Corrinne, and his Co-Weasel, Sterling Town Planner Stephen Wallace. As noted previously, CARL CORRINNE REALLY IS LOW ENOUGH TO BLOW THE BUFFALO ON A BUFFALO NICKEL— The first thing to note is that Sterling’s existing ProtectiveContinue reading “USING ORWELLIAN DOUBLE-SPEAK THE STERLING PLANNING BOARD, CHAIRED BY SELF-DEALING DEVELOPER WEASEL CARL CORRINNE, ASSISTED BY THE CO-WEASEL TOWN PLANNER, PROPOSE GUTTING STERLING’S STRICT ZONING SITE PLAN REQUIREMENTS AND TREATING STERLING’S ZONING BY-LAWS AS MERE “POLICY””

Many years ago Sterling Town Meeting voters voted to zone the southeasterly corner of Sterling in the area of Dana Hill Road and Redemption Rock Trail (Route 140) as “Performance Zone 1” because it is surrounded by Stillwater River/Wachusett Reservoir Watershed lands including the Stillwater River aquifer, various wetlands, and numerous tributary streams. Sterling votersContinue reading “FOR THE THIRD TIME IN 5 YEARS THE CRONY-ZONING PACKARDS, STERLING TOWN PLANNER, AND PLANNING BOARD WILL ATTEMPT TO RE-ZONE “PERFORMANCE ZONE 1” TO COMMERCIAL”

The Sterling Planning Board, CHAIRED BY SELF-DEALING DEVELOPER WEASEL, CARL CORRINNE, has just posted its plans for a MASSIVE, MALICIOUS POWER GRAB BY MEANS OF PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE PRESENT STERLING PROTECTIVE (ZONING) BY-LAWS. You can and should read the present Zoning By-Laws here– ecode360.com/11816626 Here is the link to ALL the proposed new changes–Continue reading “THE STERLING PLANNING BOARD, CHAIRED BY SELF-DEALING  DEVELOPER WEASEL CARL CORRINNE, ANNOUNCES ITS PLANS FOR A MASSIVE, MALICIOUS POWER GRAB AT THE 2025 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING”

“Sterling Searching for parcel for MBTA Zoning”—that’s a new article (paywalled) in this week’s The Landmark newspaper, Holden. SO, the ABSOLUTELY GUTLESS WHIMPERING SIMP MORONS running ‘Sterling Town Government,’ such as it is, lack the intelligence and the cojones to join neighboring Town of Holden, and multiple other towns, in fighting back against Mass.Gen.Laws Ch.Continue reading “MORE PROOF THAT STERLING IS RUN BY ABSOLUTELY GUTLESS WHIMPERING SIMP MORONS. THEY DISREGARD THE TOWN OF MILTON’S DEVASTATING SJC CHALLENGE TO THE BOGUS SO-CALLED “MBTA ZONING DISTRICTS” STATUTE AND LOOK FOR STERLING LAND TO ZONE FOR HIGH-DENSITY HOUSING”