Those paying attention know that the Sterling Planning Board and the ZBA are engaged in a pissing contest over which of those pro-developer hack groups should take the lead, and what their respective prerogatives are, when it comes to putting proposed zoning by-laws on Town Meeting Warrants.
So, The Three Stooges constituting the Sterling Select Board–
We know that the Sterling Conservation Commission has a VERY long history of letting local developers run wild at the expense of precious wetland/water resources. For example, in the early 1990s Simpson was allowed to bulldoze through standing swamp water and surrounding wetlands–prime migratory woodcock habitat and an upstream feeder source for the South Branch of Wekepeke Brook, itself a precious, protected state-recognized “Coldwater fishery” habitat–to construct Ashton Lane. You know the old joke about the Simpsons, father and son–“The Simpsons never bought a wetland that didn’t perc.”
So you gotta wonder why those Conservation Commission ASSCLOWNS haven’t posted their Meeting Minutes on the Town of Sterling website since 24 October 2023. What the hell are they hiding?
That failure isn’t just a GROSS dereliction of duty, it is also a violation of Massachusetts Attorney General Open Meeting Law Guidelines/Requirements.
Here’s what the Town of Hopedale’s webpage says about posting meeting minutes:
“The ‘New Public Records Law’ advises that approved minutes should be posted on the town’s website under your department’s minute page. I would recommend that the electronic version of the minutes online be posted which is the responsibility of each department.”
GEE, is it a coincidence that Simpson wants to push a driveway off James Patten Drive, through a headwaters tributary stream that flows downhill–a branch the very stream that flows through Simpson’s Ashton Lane development (what ANOTHER FRIGGIN’ COINCIDENCE!!!)– to feed the South Branch of Wekepeke Brook, in order to build two houses??? And where will Simpson’s septic systems for those two houses be located in relation to that tributary stream, since not far uphill from that tributary stream is visible North Kendall Hill bedrock???
BTW, we know that Select Board member Maureen “Our Lady of Perpetual Bullshit” Cranson is up Simpson’s A$$.
The F.B.I. — the DemocRAT Party’s Stasi– is by far the most corrupt ‘law enforcement’ agency in the United States (followed–you guessed it–by the Massachusetts State Police).
Yesterday, 13 July 2024, another date that will live in infamy, former and soon-to-be-again President, Donald Trump, during a Pennsylvania rally, was shot in the right ear by a punk would-be assassin, Thomas Crooks, 20, who donated to Act Blue, a rabid DemocRAT Super PAC/front group. Of course he did! Had Crooks’ shot gone through Trump’s right eye, into his brain, Trump would be dead, the fervent wish of DemocRAT sociopaths and psychopaths (but I repeat myself) everywhere.
Make no mistake about it, Trump’s Secret Service detail was totally incompetent–a total failure–allowing Crooks to climb up, toting his rifle in plain view, onto the roof of a building a mere 130 meters from Trump’s podium. There he took up a prone firing position. For a competent shooter in the prone position, even without a sling, a rifle rest/bipod, or a telescopic sight, 130 meters is spitting distance. Bystanders warned police and the incompetent Secret Service that Crooks was up there, armed, and they even filmed him. He was allowed to get off several shots– Trump Rally Gunman Seen Opening Fire & Getting Killed Seconds Later in New Video (tmz.com)–before being taken out by Secret Service snipers. Friggin’ Brilliant situational awareness and preemptive action by the Secret Service! Yeah, I’d entrust my life to them—NOT!
So what about the Secret Service’s head skirt, Kimberly Cheatle, Dementia Joe Biden’s DEI appointee? Welp, turns out that she emphasized DEI too—Diversity, Equity, Inclusion—the DemocRat/Commie buzzphrase for ignoring competence and merit while emphasizing the hiring and promotion from within favored identity groups instead–blacks, homosexuals, cross-dressers, women, etc. . What was Kimberly Cheatle’s Secret Service aim? The hiring of more female Secret Service agents, of course! The Secret Service signed onto the “30X30 Initiative”—30×30 Initiative
Corey Comperatore, a former Fire Chief, while shielding his family, was shot and killed by Crooks– Corey Comperatore identified as man killed at Trump rally | AP News He is yet another tragic example of how DEI equals DIE. Yes folks, incompetence gets people killed and injured. Remember that the next time that you are tempted to vote DemocRAT AT ANY LEVEL.
Not many years ago, when the then-sitting Select Boards of Paxton and Rutland, collectively, had some cojones a couple of brain cells to rub together, and those two Wachusett School District towns ran into Proposition 2 ½ Property Tax Override Territory, those Select Boards would see to it, in their Annual Town Meeting Warrants, that the WRSD appropriations requests above the State-required net minimum contributions, NOT their municipal budgets, were contingent upon passage of such an override.
THE WRSD ALWAYS LOST those Proposition 2 ½ override votes, AND WHEN BOTH PAXTON AND RUTLAND VOTERS SHOT DOWN WRSD OVERRIDES IN THE SAME YEAR THE WRSD WAS FORCED TO COME BACK WITH AN OVERALL SMALLER BUDGET PROPOSAL, THEREBY SAVING ALL WACHUSETT SCHOOL DISTRICT PROPERTY TAXPAYERS SOME MONEY.
Well, like Sterling’s current Select Board, more recent Paxton and Rutland Select Boards lack, collectively, cojones and two brain cells to rub together and, therefore, have made THEIR TOWNS’ MUNICIPAL BUDGETS, NOT WRSD ASSESSMENTS, SUBJECT TO PROPOSITION 2 ½ OVERRIDES.
WHEN SUCH OVERRIDES FAIL MUNICIPAL DEPARTMENTS/SERVICES ARE CUT. THAT’S JUST FRIGGIN’ BRILLIANT! THIS YEAR PAXTON’S PROPOSITION 2 ½ OVERRIDE WAS REJECTED BY THAT TOWN’S VOTERS, FORCING CUTS IN THE PAXTON FY 2025 MUNICIPAL BUDGET—
During the 2025 Wachusett District Annual Town Meeting Cycle it now appears that the Towns of Paxton, Princeton, Rutland, and Sterling will be pushed toward Proposition 2 ½ Override votes due to gross, out-of-control, WRSD spending. If the Select Boards in those towns have anycojones and brains—AND THAT’S A BIG IF—they’ll see to it that, in their respective 2025 Annual Town Meeting Warrants, the WRSD requested assessments above their respective State-required net minimum contributions, NOT THEIR MUNICIPAL BUDGETS, are contingent upon passage of Proposition 2 ½ override votes. There is NO WAY that the WRSD will prevail if that is done and, so, the WRSD will be forced to come back to the District Towns with a smaller FY 2026 budget, thereby saving all District property taxpayers some money and teaching the WRSD Superintendent and WRSD Committee a much needed, waaaay overdue lesson.
Watch Sterling’s and the other District’s Select Board cretins confront this easy choice over the next 10 months.
John Kilcoyne served two 3-year terms on the Sterling Select Board and, as a perennial boot-lick, voted to keep on as Chair of the Select Board one Maureen “Our Lady of Perpetual Bullshit” Cranson. You see, the egomaniacal, power-hungry, media hound, “Our Lady of Perpetual Bullshit,” intent on violating the Sterling Select Board’s unwritten rule and historical practice of rotating the Chairmanship each year, needed one vote each year, in addition to her own, to retain the Chair. John Kilcoyne, her useful tool, provided that vote.
Last year John Kilcoyne decided not to seek re-election to the Select Board. Being a boot-lick to an incompetent, dishonest, smoke-blowing, dissembling, poseur HACK like Cranson must be a strain. But Kilcoyne, like a bad penny, keeps turning up. The Select Board, during its 26 June 2024 meeting–
appointed Kilcoyne to the Wachusett Regional School District Audit Committee. Kilcoyne won’t have to do any work while on that Audit Committee. I doubt that he’ll even read the WRSD’s outside-audit report required by law to be filed nine (9) months after 30 June 2024, the close of that Fiscal Year. In fact, the three OUTRIGHT HACKS constituting the Sterling Select Board, all up the A$$E$ of the out-of-control spenders constituting the WRSD Committee and of the WRSD Superintendent, expect Kilcoyne to provide cover for them as enablers promoting the WRSD’s aim to gouge District property taxpayers into oblivion. After all, Kilcoyne, when on the Sterling Select Board, remained absolutely silent when the WRSD was caught having overspent its FY 2022 budget by $1.6 million–http://web.archive.org/web/20220901001540/https://www.thelandmark.com/story/news/education/2022/08/30/no-room-mistakes-wrsd-next-budget-season/7930488001/ — and when the WRSD’s outside auditors blasted the WRSD for having 65 bank accounts, a recipe for embezzlement– FY22ManagementLetter.pdf (wrsdonline.net)
By the way, Linda Woodland, the Sterling HACK on the WRSD Committee who blows more smoke for the WRSD at Sterling Annual Town Meetings than a U.S. Navy destroyer smokescreen generator, ALSO remained silent about those WRSD financial irregularities. If there is one thing that HACKS such as Sterling’s Select Board members, John Kilcoyne, and Linda Woodland agree upon when it comes to WRSD misfeasance and malfeasance, and their own perennial incompetence, it is the importance of the Mafia code of silence—Omerta. In our case just substitute Sterling’s Hack-O-Rama for the Mafia.
Even if John Kilcoyne doesn’t read about and report on the WRSD’s out-of-control spending and financial irregularities, you can by going here– Budget and Finance – Wachusett Regional School District (wrsd.net) NOTE that the WRSD has not yet posted online its FY 2023 outside Audit Report required to be completed by the end of March 2024. You know—Omerta again.
As any Sterling property taxpayer possessing at least half a brain knows, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a one-partyDemocRATHACK-O-RAMA, and Sterling Town Government, but for a few notable exceptions, is a microcosm Massachusetts DemocRAT HACK-O-RAMA. That fact was reaffirmed on 26 June 2024 when the fiscally out-of-control Wachusett Regional School District’s OUTRIGHTASS-KISSING GUTLESS ASSCLOWNSconstituting the current Sterling Select Board, in conjunction with new Town Moderator and former Sterling Select Board HACK, Richard Lane, teamed up to SHAFT all Sterling property taxpayers by rejecting the re-appointment of highly talented, honest, insightful, direct, blunt, no-nonsense, fiscally responsible George Handy to the Sterling Finance Committee. Pay close attention to all three Sterling Select Board Outright Gutless Incompetent Assclowns between minute 12:00 and minute 32:00–
YEAH, YEAH, I’m SURE that those POSTURING BUFFOONS did get a bunch of letters complaining about George Handy– all from WRSD School Committee members, WRSD administrators, WRSD employees, and parents of schoolkids with their hands out. Such letters are now “public records” and can be obtained by sending in a “public records request” in accordance with Mass.Gen.Laws Ch. 66, Sec. 10 if you want to find out who sent them and what they say.
It was George Handy, as Chair of the Sterling Finance Committee in FY 2024, who stood up for ALL Sterling property taxpayers by leading the charge to confront the WRSD’s OUTRAGEOUS FY 2025 $121.9 million budget request–up by $40 million since FY 2015 despite the 817 drop in total student enrollment since FY 2010, that enrollment drop being equivalent to 54.5 empty classrooms given the WRSD’s stated student-teacher ratio– opposing the WRSD’s requested appropriation above the Town of Sterling’s required net minimum contribution. Mr. Handy was instrumental in getting TWO (2) distinct WRSD appropriation Articles, in accordance with Sterling Annual Town Meeting Warrant historical practices through 2018, on the DRAFT 2024 Sterling Annual Town Meeting Warrant—one Article for Sterling’s required WRSD net minimum contribution and the other for the WRSD request above Sterling’s required net minimum contribution—only to have the WRSD’s Outright Gutless Assclown Panderers constituting the Sterling Select Board attempt to screw all Sterling property taxpayers by ignoring Sterling’s historical practices and consolidating the WRSD’s FY 2025 OUTRAGEOUS appropriations requests into ONE (1) Article on the FINAL 2024 Sterling Annual Town Meeting Warrant. That cowardly act backfired spectacularly– to the Select Board’s intense public embarrassment– during the 2024 Sterling Annual Town Meeting. F#CK THEM!!!
During FY 2024 Mr. Handy and the Finance Committee warned us that the out-of-control WRSD is pushing the Town of Sterling toward a Proposition 2 ½ property tax override vote. That warning was ignored by the Outright Stupid, Gutless, WRSD-Ass-Kissing Panderers constituting the Sterling Select Board. The danger of a Proposition 2 ½ property tax override vote will be enhanced greatly next year due to Sterling Select Board stupidity and gross incompetence
You get the Gutless, Dishonest, Self-Promoting, Preening, Smoke-Blowing, DUMBF#CK Town Government actors for whom you vote.
Unfortunately for taxpayers throughout the 5-Town WRSD, the Town of Princeton is chock full of babbling Limousine Lefties always willing to screw themselves and their taxpaying neighbors when it comes to funding the out-of-control spending racket known as the Wachusett Regional School District. They equate quantity—more spending—with school quality. That is an unproven premise at best, and an outright false one at worst. With a median family income of $152,884 according to the 2020 census, a lot of them are content to shell out, mindlessly, every year, for rank upon rank of WRSD ‘payroll patriots,’ many of whom are probably unable to make it in the competitive ‘dreaded private sector.’ Oh yeah, how many folks in ‘the dreaded private sector’ get summers off and retire with taxpayer-funded pensions and medical coverage???
So here are a few WRSD facts for Princeton’s reflex-spending Limousine Lefties:
The WRSD was founded in 1955. It took SIXTY (60) years for the WRSD to reach $81.3 million in total spending. That was in Fiscal Year 2015. WRSD total student enrollment was already falling in FY 2015 from its peak in FY 2010.
The WRSD total budget request for FY 2025 is $121.9 million, up a WHOPPING $40 million in just TEN (10) years despite total student enrollment dropping more than 10% since FY 2010.
WRSD total student enrollment peaked in FY 2010 at 7493.
WRSD total student enrollment this year—FY 2024—was 6676.
WRSD total student enrollment has fallen by 817—WELL MORE THAN 10%– since FY 2010.
That drop in WRSD total student enrollment is equivalent to 54.5 EMPTY CLASSROOMS given the WRSD’s stated student-teacher ratio of 15:1.
The Princeton Select Board, supposedly, has two (2) ‘fiscally responsible’ Select Board members, Robert Cumming and Phil Gott. The third member, Karen Cruise, is a reflexive Libtard spender. BUT, looking at the graphs below, you’d be correct in concluding that ALL of the Princeton Select Board members are Reflexive Dishonest Libtards.
FIRST, they lied by mislabeling Princeton’s FY 2025 WRSD-requested “Discretionary Contribution”–the amount requested of the Town of Princeton by the WRSD above Princeton’s State-required “net minimum contribution”– as “Operations Assessment” instead, thereby making a blatant effort to deceive Princeton voters into believing that that category is obligatory spending WHEREAS, IN REALITY, PRINCETON VOTERS HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE IT DOWN AT THE UPCOMING 11 JUNE 2024 PRINCETON ANNUAL TOWN MEETING.
SECOND, they shifted A BIG CHUNK OF $$$ from the REAL FY 2025 “DISCRETIONARY CONTRIBUTION” REQUESTED BY THE WRSD, SHOWN FROM THE ACTUAL WRSD SPREADSHEET YEARLY “DISCRETIONARY” CONTRIBUTION PROGRESSION FROM FY 2019 TO FY 2025, including two “Amended” columns, AS BEING $1,420,261 (The xls. spreadsheet itself would not transfer to this page)–
OVER TO THE “TRANSPORTATION” COLUMN, THEREBY REDUCING THE ACTUAL “DISCRETIONARY” AMOUNT PRINCETON VOTERS HAVE THE RIGHT TO SHOOT DOWN DURING THEIR 11 JUNE 2024 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING AND FURTHER DECEIVING THEM BY MAKING IT APPEAR THAT PRINCETON’S SHARE OF WRSD FY 2025 TRANSPORTATION COSTS INCREASED BY 48.62%, WHEREAS AS THEY ONLY REALLY INCREASED BY 9.90%
THESE ARE DISHONEST TACTICS THAT ONLY WRSD SHILLS/LYING SCUMBAGS WOULD EMPLOY, AND THAT TELLS YOU ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE PRINCETON SELECT BOARD.
Here is the Princeton graph of what this year looks like compared to last year…using the real numbers, not the ones that they moved around.
ALL OF THIS IS CRITICAL INFORMATION BECAUSE IF PRINCETON VOTERS VOTE DOWN THE REAL WRSD “DISCRETIONARY CONTRIBUTION” AT THEIR 11 JUNE 2024 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING THEN THE WRSD WILL HAVE TO FORMULATE A NEW PROPOSED FY 2025 BUDGET–STERLING VOTERS, AT THEIR MAY 2024 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING, HAVING ALREADY REJECTED STERLING’S PORTION OF THE WRSD’S BLOATED FY 2025 REQUESTED APPROPRIATION.
For decades the Town of Sterling asserted false claims that the late Maryanne MacLeod did not have a deeded ‘easement’ (‘right of way’) over the land where her driveway, formerly a farm cart path, had existed and been used by her and her predecessors-in-title since 1945, and attempted to claim that land as part of its deeded ‘conservation land’ in that area. That she had a deeded driveway easement/right of way became even clearer when, during the lawsuit she was forced to commence–Maryanne MacLeod vs. Town of Sterling et al., Worcester Superior Court Civil Action No. 1885CV01098B– the Town of Sterling ADMITTED that the key recorded deed to the Town of land in issue, now conservation land, granted by Bertha Hall in 1973, contained a DRAFTING ERROR and referred to “Kendall Hill Road” INSTEAD OF, rightly, Swett Hill Road. The deeds in Maryanne MacLeod’s chain of title, starting with the 1945 deed granted by the late Bertha Hall and late her husband, state clearly that Maryanne MacLeod and her predecessors-in-title had an easement/right of way to “Kendall Hill Road.” Those deeds should have referred to Swett Hill Road instead.
The Town of Sterling did not have a financial incentive to settle the case early on BECAUSE IT WAS NOT PAYING ITS DEFENSE LAWYERS. INSTEAD, THE TOWN’S INSURER RETAINED THE LAW FIRM OF HASSETT & DONNELLY, Worcester, Massachusetts, and HASSETT & DONNELLY BILLED THE LIVING SH*T OUT OF THE TOWN’S INSURER DURING THE YEARS’ LONG LITIGATION.
The stress of litigation and mounting legal bills took their toll on Maryanne MacLeod. She suffered a debilitating stroke in 2022 and died months later in January 2023. Indeed, justice delayed is justice denied. Her sons continued her lawsuit.
In February 2024 her case finally settled. Under the written “Settlement Agreement,” a copy of which I obtained from the Town of Sterling by a Mass.Gen.Laws Ch. 66, Section 10 Public Records Request, the Town of Sterling relinquished all claims to the MacLeod driveway and recognized the MacLeods as owners of that driveway. In addition, the Town of Sterling agreed to pay the MacLeods $15,000 for dismissal of the lawsuit.
The Town of Sterling’s BOGUS CLAIMS in that matter constitute a shameful episode in the Town’s long history.
STERLING, MASSACHUSETTS, OVERWATCH 