Patrick Fox, Chair of the Sterling Zoning Board of Appeals a/k/a The Developers’ Doormat, never met an abutter or neighbor to a local developer’s proposed development project, no matter how sketchy or objectionable that project may be when stacked up against Sterling’s Protective (Zoning) By-Laws– the very set of By-Laws that Mr. Fox is duty-bound to uphold and enforce–that he wouldn’t hose in a heartbeat.

So he put on display his true colors yet again during the 12 April 2022 Sterling ZBA Hearing on the Cider Hill Estates ‘No Touch Buffer Zone’ (off Redstone Hill Road), the VERY ‘No Touch Buffer Zone,’ recorded as a PUBLIC RECORD at the Worcester District Registry of Deeds, that the Sterling ZBA ITSELF, in 2016, imposed so as to protect abutters to the Cider Hill Estates multi-family development. In the manner of an outright hypocrite Fox moved to ELIMINATE that Buffer Zone in its entirety– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/node/2041/minutes-agendas

Under Sterling’s Zoning By-Laws Cider Hill Estates, built by SIMPSON, STERLING’S BIGGEST SNAKE, should never have been permitted in the first place because its access road is within 150 feet of not just one, but THREE (3) existing driveways to abutting residences. The Sterling ZBA members, of course, never read a Sterling Zoning By-Law prohibition they would not readily subvert and granted Simpson a ‘Special Permit’ to build Cider Hill Estates anyway.

This time around, however, Chairman Fox ran into some well overdue resistance from other ZBA members for whom Fox’s blatant hypocrisy was, perhaps, a ‘Bridge Too Far,’ so to speak. They proposed amending that ‘No Touch Buffer Zone’ with certain conditions suggested by abutters. On a Motion, the amended ‘No Touch Buffer Zone’ was adopted, the vote being 5-0, meaning that Fox flip-flopped like a fish.

J.G.

The Sterling Select Board’s two Malevolent Muppets, ‘Our Lady of Perpetual Bullsh*t,’ Maureen Cranson, and the ‘Bent Buffoon,’ John Kilcoyne, true to their deceptive and devious forms, waited until AFTER the 2 May 2022 Sterling Annual Town Meeting to announce their intention to hire a purported ‘Town Planner’ (their latest all-purpose hack ‘Gofer,’ in reality). SEE 11 May 2022 Select Board Agenda– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/select-board/events/109621

You see, 2018 Sterling Annual Town Meeting voters passed a Warrant Article authorizing the hiring of a Town Planner based on the EXPLICIT REPRESENTATION then made by said Malevolent Muppets that such Town Planner would be hired ONLY TO COMPLETE THE TOWN’S NEW MASTER PLAN. Thereafter the Select Board hired Domenica Tatasciore whom the Malevolent Muppets used as their all-purpose hack ‘Gofer’ at Sterling taxpayer expense. Ms. Tatasciore, in autumn 2021, in an act of mercy for all Sterling taxpayers, parachuted out of her ‘Town Planner’/’Gofer’ position and blew out of Town, BUT NOT BEFORE being paid approximately $225,000 PLUS benefits over thirty-six (36) months, and WITHOUT HAVING COMPLETED THE TOWN’S NEW MASTER PLAN.

Well folks, in the blessed absence of Domenica Tatasciore the new Town of Sterling Master Plan was completed– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/home/news/the-final-draft-of-the-master-plan-is-here
So you gotta wonder why, in the small Town (population 7900) that is Sterling, do the Malevolent Muppets want to go back on their 2018 pledge and hire another purported ‘Town Planner’?

My bet is that they want another general purpose ‘Gofer,’ adding to their Municipal Building administrative fiefdom bloat at our expense, and that, after a “thorough and intensive nation-wide search,” the Malevolent Muppets will pick– drumroll… — Patty Page, now Administrative Assistant to the Building Department.

J.G.

A fascinating correlation manifested itself during Sterling’s 2022 Annual Town Meeting conducted Monday night, 2 May. Carl Corrinne, real estate developer and hack Chair of the Sterling Planning Board; former Select Board member Richard Lane, this guy– https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/2005/09/20/head-police-academy-transferred-after/51253541007/ –who, when in office, was up the A$$ of local developers, particularly Brian Foley’s; Brian Foley himself; and Patrick Fox, Chair of the Sterling Zoning Board of Appeals a/k/a The Developers’ Doormat, all supported the attempted crony-zoning of Performance Zone 1 to Commercial. Turns out that Mark and Karen Packard, who appeared before Corrinne’s Planning Board, the Board that sponsored this attempted re-zoning, in December 2021 and January 2022, when and where they proposed certain commercial enterprises within Performance Zone 1 on Redemption Rock Trail between Dana Hill Road and Route I-190, own SEVEN (7) parcels WITHIN that zone, one (1) by means of the KK Realty Trust, Karen Packard Trustee, and six (6) by means of the following: 44 RRT, LLC; 37 RRT, LLC; 35 RRT, LLC; and 32 RRT, LLC. ‘RRT’ stands for Redemption Rock Trail. All of those Limited Liability Corporations are listed to 12 Michael Lane, Sterling, the Packards’ home address, as shown by reports on file with the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Corporations Division.

Note that Lane, Corrinne, and Foley all had a hand in promulgating and/or drafting the developer-promoted, crony-crafted, absolutely abominable ‘Earth Removal By-Law’ rammed through for approval during the 2021 Sterling Annual Town Meeting. Fox endorsed that execrable piece of crap, out loud, during the 2022 Annual Town Meeting.

The attempted crony-zoning of Performance Zone 1 to Commercial failed, thankfully, this year just as it did last year. All the homeowners along Redemption Rock Trail between Dana Hill Road and John Dee Road can breathe a sigh of relief. We hope that that weasel’s weasel, Corrinne, takes the hint.

SO, why did Corrinne, Lane, Foley, and Fox ALL support retaining a three (3) member Select Board rather than expanding the Select Board to five (5) seats???
ANSWER: Because Select Board members ‘Our Lady of Perpetual Bullshit,’ Maureen Cranson, and the ‘Bent Buffoon,’ John Kilcoyne, are wholly owned by local developers. Fox is a Select Board appointee.

It is reported, and is to be fervently hoped, that Kilcoyne, the ‘Bent Buffoon,’ will not run for re-election in 2023.

During the 2022 Sterling Annual Town Meeting voters passed an Article expanding the Select Board to five (5) seats and requesting that the Select Board petition the Massachusetts Legislature for an Act approving that expansion. Assuming that that happens, and in view of Kilcoyne’s reported 2023 planned departure, local developers will have to work harder to compromise an expanded Sterling Select Board.

It is reported that Corrinne, Lane, Foley and Fox, following adjournment, left the 2022 Annual Town Meeting in butthurt condition.

J.G.

In case you missed it, stealth candidate Mark Stodolski is running for Sterling Planning Board against incumbent John Santoro. SEE
https://www.thelandmark.com/story/news/politics/elections/local/2022/04/01/one-contested-race-sterling-ballot-planning-board-candidates-needed-offices/7192234001/

Have you seen any printed candidate statement issued by Mark Stodolski or his handlers? I neither.

So, what do we know about Mr. Stodolski? Well, for one thing he is a hot air balloon pilot– https://airportguide.com/airmen/A2269782/MARK-DAVID-STODOLSKI That fits–Sterling Town ‘Government,’ such as it is, runs on blown hot air.

We also know that he resides at 6C Jill Lane, Sterling– https://thatsthem.com/name/Mark-Stodolski/Sterling-MA

Does Mr. Stodolski own 6C Jill Lane? No he does not. The “Clara Gorczynski Living Trust” does. Do the address search here– https://www.axisgis.com/SterlingMA/

Who is Clara Gorczynski? Well, she runs the Sterling Century 21 Real Estate agency– https://www.century21.com/real-estate-agent/profile/clara-gorczynski-P25216006

SO, ya gotta wonder, why is the mere tenant of a Sterling real estate agent running for the Sterling Planning Board, a Board that has significant impact on land use determinations in Sterling, and what little coterie in Town put him up to it??? I’ll give you three (3) guesses, and the first two don’t count.

BOTTOM LINE: DON’T VOTE FOR MARK STODOLSKI.

J.G.

It’s official. Kirsten Newman is running as a write-in candidate for the Sterling Select Board seat soon opening. Arden Sonnenberg is not running for re-election. This contest is good news for Sterling taxpayers and voters wanting a choice.

David Smith, husband of Sterling Treasurer and Tax Collector Victoria Smith, filed nomination papers previously to run for that seat. He figured that he’d be unopposed. He miscalculated. It is reported that David Smith is employed as General Foreman for the City of Leominster D.P.W. That means that both he and Victoria Smith feed full time from taxpayer-funded public mammary glands. If you think that is a good combo for Sterling taxpayers then I will sell you the Muddy Pond Road bridge.

If you want a built-in conflict of interest, cronyist, and inside dealer, then, by all means, vote for David Smith on 9 May 2022. If you don’t, then please vote for Kirsten Newman.

I will post any press release issued by Kirsten Newman.

Stay tuned!

UPDATE, 28 April 2022: Kirsten Newman got a very late start because she assumed that Arden Sonnenberg would run for re-election. I received a forwarded text message from Kirsten Newman. She will not expend resources to gain this year’s open Select Board seat because she plans to mount a full-on campaign for Select Board next year. HOWEVER, she will be happy to get write-in votes this year. SO WRITE IN KIRSTEN NEWMAN FOR SELECT BOARD ON 9 MAY 2022!

J.G.

Until recent years the Select Board and Finance Committee had some respect for Sterling’s property taxpayers and placed any significant capital or infrastructure spending request in its own Annual Town Meeting Warrant Article so the voters present could ask questions about each such request and vote each such request up or down.

Thus, for example, if the D.P.W. requested a dump truck that request would be set forth in one Warrant Article, and if the Police Department requested a new cruiser that request would be set forth in another Warrant Article.

In more recent years the out of control tax and spend Muppet-Weasels on the Select Board–Cranson and Kilcoyne–and their appointed Finance Committee Sock Puppet Weasels, in outright contempt for Sterling’s property taxpayers, have lumped MULTIPLE capital and infrastructure requests together, as ‘GIMME LISTS,’ in individual Warrant Articles, thereby eliminating the rights of Town Meeting voters to question and shoot down individual spending requests that they consider unworthy and do not approve. In other words, these lists are compiled deliberately to be “all or nothing” and, in essence, ARE A FORM OF EXTORTION. Hence, this time around we have Warrant Article 22 WITH EIGHTEEN (18) ITEMS INCLUDED TOTALING $489,423 and Warrant Article 23 WITH EIGHT (8) ITEMS INCLUDED TOTALING $516,000.
SEE https://www.sterling-ma.gov/home/files/annual-town-meeting-warrant-articles

Warrant Article 22 seeks a transfer from so-called “free cash[“] or any other available [suspiciously unspecified] funds” and Warrant Article 23 seeks a transfer from the “Capital Investment Fund.” “Free Cash” is a deceptive, dishonest label. YOUR TAX DOLLARS, WHETHER PAID DIRECTLY TO THE TOWN OF STERLING OR FUNNELED BACK TO THE TOWN OF STERLING FROM THE COMMIE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, CONSTITUTE THE SO-CALLED “FREE CASH” ON HAND. YOUR TAX DOLLARS ALSO COMPRISE THE “CAPITAL INVESTMENT FUND.”

NOTE WELL: THE FACT THAT THE TOWN OF STERLING HAS SO MUCH SO-CALLED “FREE CASH” AND “CAPITAL INVESTMENT FUND” SUMS ON HAND IS PROOF THAT WE STERLING PROPERTY TAXPAYERS ARE OVER-TAXED, IN DECEPTIVE FASHION, BY THE TOWN OF STERLING YEAR IN AND YEAR OUT AND THUS EXPLOITED.

SO, STERLING TAXPAYERS, IT’S TIME TO HAVE SOME REAL FUN AND SHOW SELECT BOARD MUPPET-WEASELS CRANSON AND KILCOYNE, AND THEIR APPOINTED FINANCE COMMITTEE SOCK PUPPET WEASELS, WHO REALLY CONSTITUTE THE BOSS! COME OUT TO THE 2 MAY 2022 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING AND VOTE DOWN BOTH WARRANT ARTICLES 22 AND 23.

See you there!

J.G.

Sterling Select Board Members ‘Our Lady of Perpetual Bullsh*t,’ Maureen Cranson, and the ‘Bent Buffoon.’ John Kilcoyne, together with their Finance Committee appointees, would not recognize accountability, fiscal responsibility, or fiscal restraint if those principles reared up and bit them all in their utterly feckless and reckless A$$E$. They are, collectively, an outright insult to sound governance and the Town of Sterling’s property taxpayers.

This year’s Town of Sterling ‘Omnibus Budget,’ passed as 2021 Annual Town Meeting Warrant Article 9, is $11,455,429. SEE https://www.sterling-ma.gov/advanced-search?keywords=2021+Annual+Town+Meeting+Warrant

For next fiscal year these Select Board and Finance Committee A$$-CLOWNS propose the BIGGEST ANNUAL TOWN ‘OMNIBUS BUDGET’ INCREASE EVER– to $12,820,004, up $1,364,575, or 11.9 %. SEE Warrant Article 4– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/home/files/annual-town-meeting-warrant-articles

THESE A$$-CLOWNS ARE, OBVIOUSLY, OUT OF CONTROL.

NOTE: There are OTHER spending Warrant Articles IN ADDITION TO THE PROPOSED ‘OMNIBUS BUDGET.’ Review the entire 2022 Annual Town Meeting Warrant to get the big picture in terms of the HITS TO YOUR WALLETS.

IF YOU, STERLING PROPERTY OWNERS/TAXPAYERS, DON’T SHOW UP AT THE 2 MAY 2022 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING AND VOTE DOWN THIS ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGEOUS ‘OMNIBUS BUDGET’ THEN YOU HAVE ONLY YOURSELVES TO BLAME FOR GETTING HOSED BY SKYROCKETING PROPERTY TAX BILLS NEXT YEAR AND IN THE YEARS AHEAD. THESE INCREASES ARE COMPOUNDED.

MOREOVER, TO PROTECT YOURSELVES YOU MUST VOTE CRANSON AND KILCOYNE OUT OF OFFICE WHEN THEY COME UP FOR RE-ELECTION NEXT YEAR AND THE FOLLOWING YEAR.

J.G.