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

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 along with the officious and incompetent Select Board Chair, Kirsten Newman, to universal approval of the Finance Committee and CBC, announced that there will be a concerted propaganda campaign to push approval of the re-packaged Sterling D.P.W. Garage Mahal Boondoggle at $25,535,000 for 28,000 square feet, or $912 per square foot, instead of the $33,000,000 for 37,000 square feet, or $892 per square foot, original Garage Mahal Boondoggle shellacked and shot down at the 13 November 2025 Special Town Meeting by a vote of 373 to 183. The D.P.W. says that the $25,535,000 figure is fixed and non-negotiable. All the afore-mentioned aim to enlist the Sterling Meetinghouse News and The Landmark in their propaganda campaign, and probably The Item too.

MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT—THESE A$$HOLE$ ARE ABSOLUTELY OUT OF CONTROL.

In 2018 the Town of Berlin got an excellent 13,000 to 14,000 square foot new D.P.W. building for $4.1 million, or about $304 per square foot.

This BOONDOGGLE will be coming up in several months for ANOTHER Special Town Meeting vote.

In the meantime hold on to your wallets and stay tuned.

J.G.

THE STERLING TOWN ADMINISTRATOR AND PLANNING BOARD SUPPOSEDLY WANT FEEDBACK ON THE PLANNING BOARD’S PROPOSED 2026 ZONING CHANGES. ACTUALLY, THEY’RE LYING BUT THEY JUST GOT MY OPENING SALVO ANYWAY

The pro-development hacks constituting the Sterling Planning Board, Chaired by utterly contemptible walking conflict of interest, self-dealing, self-serving developer weasel Carl Corrinne, and the Town Administrator, say that they welcome feedback concerning the Planning Board’s proposed zoning changes to be on the 2026 Sterling Annual Town Meeting Warrant—

https://www.sterling-ma.gov/718/Zoning-Proposals-for-2026-Annual-Town-Me

 Actually, they’re lying and would prefer that you not read or understand them and, if you do, to keep your mouth shut because they’d prefer to jam the Town and everyone in it who cares about preserving Sterling’s semi-rural character. Well, their bullshit doesn’t work with me so here’s my opening email salvo addressing a couple of the zoning proposals, copies to all the Select Board twits:

Mr. Caldwell.

       During the 8 December 2025 Sterling Zoning Forum at which you, the Newmans, and the utterly contemptible walking conflict of interest, self-serving, self-dealing developer weasel Carl Corrinne, Planning Board Chair, were present, multiple people in attendance spoke out against “Senior Housing Developments” being “allowed By Right upon Site Plan approval from the Planning Board….” In fact, all who addressed that issue said that such developments should be subject to Special Permits issued by the Zoning Board of Appeals. And that is because no one with at least half a brain residing in Sterling trusts the pro-development hacks constituting the Planning Board to do right by existing abutters, existing neighborhoods, the Town’s natural resources, or the Town’s semi-rural character.

     In response then-Town Planner Stephen Wallace, since departed, told all present that he would seek to change that language and make it consistent with that of the Multi-Family Development Zoning By-Law that makes such developments contingent upon Special Permits granted by the Zoning Board of Appeals. Apparently Corrinne and his Planning Board cohorts refused to make the requested change because they prefer to see such developments crammed in wherever possible under THEIR auspices.

    Further, under “Building Design” I see that such purported “Senior” dwelling units can be up to 1800 square feet. For “Seniors” seeking affordability a maximum of 1200 square feet would be about right but then, of course, such a limit would restrict Corrinne’s potential profiteering margin.

     And GEE, what a coincidence! It just so happens that Stephen Wallace said that ‘Over-Age-55’ development zoning language and provisions had generated applicability and succession problems in Littleton and other towns. SO, since by law the number of bedrooms in a dwelling unit cannot be restricted, HE, WALLACE, ADVOCATED THAT “Senior Housing Developments” DWELLING UNITS BE LIMITED IN TERMS OF SQUARE FOOTAGE. WELL, 1800 SQUARE FEET IS HARDLY A LIMIT. AGAIN, THANK YOU CORRINNE.

    NOTE: Despite Stephen Wallace’s recommendation that all ‘Over 55” language be eliminated from “Senior Housing Developments” By-Law provisions, it remains.

    Then there’s this. At the 8 December 2025 Zoning Forum it was pointed out that “[a] portion of the [required] common land/open space may be used for… [septic] leaching fields…,” a “portion” being undefined, meaning a “portion” could be 95%. WHAT A CROCK. That was duly noted by Mr. Wallace. AN EVEN BIGGER CROCK IS THIS UNLIMITED DISCRETION: “The Planning Board shall have the authority to approve or disapprove particular uses proposed for the common land/open space in order to enhance the specific purposes of this Section.” YEAH, RIGHT. No one in his/her right mind would give those CLOWNS discretion to run a lemonade stand.

     And then there is the SHAM, FRAUD-ON-THE-PUBLIC, OUTRIGHT PRO-DEVELOPER SO-CALLED “COMPACT DEVELOPMENT OVERLAY DISTRICT” that reads as follows:

Compact Development Overlay District (CDOD) Planner’s Explanation:

Input received at public forums and Sterling’s recent housing survey indicates a desire and need for a zoning district that will encourage the construction of smaller, more affordable housing units. Such housing is needed for young families just starting out and for senior citizens looking to downsize and stay in town. Unfortunately, Sterling has few such housing options available. This new overlay district will be located on the residentially zoned portion of the airport property off Greenland Road and an abutting property under the same ownership that fronts on Old Princeton Road. The overlay district will cover approximately 181 acres of land, but only approximately 30 acres is developable with the rest of the land having development constraints (wetlands, steep slopes). All of the uses permitted in the underlying zoning district (Rural-Residence) would still be allowed in the overlay district with the addition of multi-family development as a By Right use. This new overlay district would allow for smaller lot sizes plus reduced frontage and setback requirements.

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§ 301-4.3.B Compact Development Overlay District (CDOD) Purpose: The purpose of this overlay district is to encourage the creation of compact neighborhoods and the construction of smaller, more affordable housing units by allowing for smaller lot sizes and reduced dimensional requirements.

Location: the residentially zoned portion of the airport property (Tax Parcels 94-9 & 117-4).

Uses Permitted by Right: All of the uses allowed By Right in the Rural-Residence district, plus multi-family dwellings. 

Uses Permitted by Special Permit: group residences, assisted elderly housing, convalescent or nursing home, bed & breakfast.

1. Minimum lot size: 30,000 square feet.

2. Minimum frontage requirement: 60 feet. 

3. Front yard setbacks: a minimum of 20 feet.

4. Side yard setbacks: a minimum of 20 feet.

5. Rear yard setbacks: a minimum of 20 feet.

6. Maximum dwelling unit size: 1,800 square feet. 

7. Minimum setback distance for freestanding accessory buildings: 10 feet from all lot lines (emphasis added). 

     FIRST, as you can see, these pro-development Planning Board hacks are at it again, attempting to allow “By Right” Multi-Family Developments on 30,000 square foot lots while subverting the Multi-Family Development Zoning By-Law that requires a Special Permit granted by the Zoning Board of Appeals before such a development can be built.

     SECOND, a 1200 square foot dwelling unit size in would be much more aligned with the stated goal of building “smaller, more affordable housing units. Such housing [being] needed for young families just starting out and for senior citizens looking to downsize and stay in town.”  BUT, of course, such a limit would cut down Corrinne’s profiteering margin.

     THE REAL INTENT: The real intent of this proposal is to extract maximum developer profits from small, high density lots, NOT TO PROMOTE AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR FAMILIES JUST STARTING OUT OR FOR SENIORS SEEKING TO DOWNSIZE.

      If the Planning Board fails to make appropriate changes to these proposed Zoning By-Laws then I shall offer multiple amendments at the Annual Town Meeting.

      In the days ahead I shall review the other proposed zoning changes in which I am sure to find multiple layers of crap because the Planning Board just can’t contain themselves. 

Sincerely, 

Jim Gettens

BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS, FACING A DECLINING STUDENT POPULATION AND DECLINING STATE REVENUES, WILL IMPLEMENT MAJOR PAYROLL CUTS, AND THAT’S THE EXACT REMEDY NEEDED FOR THE PAYROLL-BLOATED, SUB-STANDARD WACHUSETT REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT

The Boston Public Schools, undergoing declining student enrollment and a corresponding decline in state funding because of its declining student enrollment, have decided to swallow a reality pill and implement major payroll cuts, despite the mau-mauing parasitical teachers’ union’s objections. Yeah, cry me a river!

Here are some details:

BPS proposed staffing cuts slated for over 13% of general education, 11% of bilingual education teacher positions

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HAS BEEN GOING ON WITH THE PAYROLL-BLOATED, SUB-STANDARD WACHUSETT REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR YEARS. ITS TOTAL STUDENT ENROLLMENT HAS DROPPED BY MORE THAN 1000–14.5%– SINCE FISCAL YEAR 2010 BUT ITS BUDGET HAS SKYROCKETED FROM $81.3 MILLION IN FISCAL YEAR 2015 TO MORE THAN $129 MILLION THIS FISCAL YEAR, A 59.3% INCREASE IN JUST 11 FISCAL YEARS.

HOW HAS THE WRSD BEEN ABLE TO GET AWAY WITH THIS HIGHWAY ROBBERY OF DISTRICT TAXPAYERS???

ANSWER: BECAUSE THE ABSOLUTELY IRRESPONSIBLE VIRTUE-SIGNALING DOPES ON THE 5 DISTRICT TOWNS’ SELECT BOARDS AND FINANCE COMMITTEES HAVE RECOMMENDED AT ANNUAL TOWN MEETINGS, YEAR AFTER YEAR, THAT THE DISTRICT’S TAXPAYERS FUND THIS WRSD MONSTROSITY AND THEREBY MAKE UP FOR THE STATE’S FUNDING CUTS TO THE WRSD, CUTS THAT ARE REALITY-BASED AND TIED TO THE WRSD’S DECLINING STUDENT ENROLLMENT.

IN OTHER WORDS, THE STATE IS DEALING IN REALITY WHILE THE 5 DISTRICT TOWNS’ SELECT BOARDS AND FINANCE COMMITTEES EXIST IN DELUSIONAL ‘LA-LA LAND,’ EVER READY AND WILLING TO ABSOLUTELY SCREW THE DISTRICT’S TAXPAYERS.

The outright cretins constituting the Sterling Finance Committee admitted as much in their delusional, self-congratulatory article published on page 20 of the June 2025 Sterling Meetinghouse News, reciting May 2025 Annual Town Meeting results.

SEE https://sterlingmeetinghousenews.com/virtual-paper/ (select the archived June 2025 issue and keep advancing to page 20).

If you believe ANY future Annual Town Meeting Sterling Select Board or Finance Committee recommendation to increase funding for the WRSD, THEN YOU ARE AS IDIOTIC AS THEY ARE.

This year the absolutely out-of-control payroll-bloated sub-standard WRSD has forced Holden, Paxton, and Rutland into Proposition 2 ½ property tax override votes at their upcoming 2026 Annual Town Meetings. Let’s hope that their respective Select Boards are intelligent enough to make the Fiscal Year 2027 WRSD budget request, AND NOT THEIR TOWN OPERATING BUDGETS, contingent upon passage of Proposition 2 ½ property tax overrides. When it comes to their intelligence levels, though, don’t hold your breath.

NOTE: In the past the WRSD has NEVER prevailed when Paxton and Rutland made passage of a WRSD budget request contingent upon passage of a town-wide Proposition 2 ½ tax override.

Stay tuned.

J.G.

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

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 COMPETENT PROJECT MANAGER AT THE BEST PRICE, RIGHT???

WELL, YOU’D BE WRONG!!!

MEET STEPHEN P. THERAN, VERTEX SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER, WHO JUST HAPPENS TO RESIDE AT 19 HARDSCRABBLE ROAD, STERLING, A 7.63 ACRE COMPOUND ASSESSED AT $1,266,200.

SEE https://vertexeng.com/team-member/steve-theran/

Here’s the Town of Sterling property card info on the Stephen Theran Compound:

Click to access SterlingMA-1769887156.258461.pdf

According to a ‘white pages’ search Theran formerly resided in Athol, but now lives here.

YA, BABY, THIS IS MORE PROOF THAT STERLING TOWN GOVERNMENT CRONYISM IS ALIVE AND THRIVING!

Were you wondering for how much Stephen P. Theran’s time is billed out by Vertex to the Town of Sterling (meaning we the taxpayers)???

Well, according to the Sterling D.P.W.-Vertex contract I got in response to my Mass.Gen.Laws Ch. 66, Section 10 Public Records Request, his time as a Senior Project Manager was billed out at $184 per hour in 2025 and will be billed out at $193 per hour in 2026. Gee, and wouldn’t you just know it, he’s named as “Sr. Project Manager” on the contract’s “ATTACHMENT A– PAYMENT SCHEDULE” !!!

MMMM, DON’T YOU LOVE THE SMELL OF STERLING TOWN GOVERNMENT CRONYISM AND CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IN THE MORNING?

HECK, THE REST OF US STERLING TAXPAYERS ARE HELPINNG TO PAY THIS CONNECTED PARASITE’S PROPERTY TAXES.

I’M SHOCKED, SHOCKED I TELL YOU!—

Since intelligent Sterling taxpayers shellacked the proposed $33 Million, 37,000 square foot Sterling D.P.W. Garage Mahal Truck Palace, 373 to 183, at the 13 November 2025 Special Town Meeting, the Town’s contract with Vertex was amended because planning for the proposed, re-packaged 28,000 square foot D.P.W Garage Mahal Truck Palace will now be extended into 2026. For 2025 we paid Vertex $76,157.36. For 2026 we are on the hook to Vertex for an additional $54,091.25, for a total of $130,248.61.

AND FOOTNOTE 1 of the contract says that’s for the “Schematic Design” phase only.

Now you know why Vertex parasites were handing out Sterling D.P.W. Garage Mahal Truck Palace propaganda flyers at the 13 November 2025 Special Town Meeting.

Yes people, we Sterling taxpayers have been, and will be further, well and truly F#CKED by the Sterling Select Board, the D.P.W. Board, the Town Administrator (who signed the Vertex contract and its amendment), and the D.P.W. Superintendent.

THEY SHOULD ALL BE RUN OUT OF TOWN ON A RAIL.

Stay tuned.

J.G.

HMM, HAVE YOU BEEN WONDERING WHY WESTON & SAMPSON ENGINEERING KEEPS GETTING STERLING TOWN GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS??? WELL CHECK THIS OUT!!!

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, found on its webpages:

“Weston & Sampson provides reliable operation and maintenance, repair, health and safety, and training services, including 24/7 emergency response.

Our team of licensed engineers, certified operators, electricians, plumbers, and technicians delivers full-service operation and maintenance (O&M) for both public and private clients. We support conventional and alternative wastewater and water treatment systems, pump stations, and collection/distribution/storm drain systems. Our services include preventive maintenance (site visits, inspections, reports, and scheduling), full-service contract O&M, and scheduled/emergency corrective maintenance. We also offer cross-connection control programs, backflow testing and repairs, and 24/7 emergency service.”

And Weston & Sampson just happens to have a service location listed at 16 Legate Hill Road, Sterling, just across from DMH Electric, as listed on its webpages.

Service Locations

24-hour Emergency Contact: 1.800.SAMPSON (1.800.726.7766)

Wilmington

44 Concord Street
Wilmington, MA 01887

Driving Directions781.933.2246

Sterling

16 Legate Hill Road
Sterling, MA 01564

Driving Directions978.615.4606

Plymouth

14 Apollo 11 Road
Plymouth, MA 02534

Driving Directions

South Yarmouth

47 Workshop Road
South Yarmouth, MA 02664

Driving Directions508.760.2414

Quelle surprise! What a coincidence! I’m sure that it’s pure happenstance that the Town of Sterling keeps awarding engineering contracts to an engineering firm having a business location in Sterling!

Stay tuned.

J.G.

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

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 believe that Sterling taxpayers/voters will bite for a 28,000 square foot Garage Mahal/Truck Palace, modeled on the Town of Norwood (population 31,611 as compared with Sterling’s 8000)– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwood,_Massachusetts — Garage Mahal/Truck Palace instead of the $33 Million/37,000 square foot version that was shellacked by Sterling voters at the 13 November 2025 Special Town Meeting, 373 to 183.

For Finance Committee member Mark Gauthier’s edification, 37,000 minus 9000 equals 28,000, not 27,000.

CHECK OUT THE PHOTOS OF NORWOOD’S GLEAMING D.P.W. GARAGE MAHAL/TRUCK PALACE:

Norwood Public Works Facility

https://www.norwoodma.gov/departments/public_works/index.php

GEE, WHAT A COINCIDENCE! The Town of Norwood’s gleaming D.P.W. Garage Mahal/Truck Palace was designed by none other than Weston & Sampson, the same commission-hungry parasitical engineering firm working on the Sterling D.P.W. Garage Mahal/Truck Palace plans.

GEE, how come Weston & Sampson didn’t cite the nearby Town of Berlin D.P.W. $4.1 Million, 13,000-14,000 square foot facility completed in 2018 as a model???

SEE:

New Highway Barn Rising in Berlin, MA

https://www.telegram.com/picture-gallery/news/local/the-item/2018/10/19/item-slideshow-berlin-opens-new/66264209007/

ANSWER: Because the Town of Berlin didn’t retain the Weston & Sampson commission-hungry parasites and, as a result, got a wonderful new D.P.W facility for a fair price.

The comparison makes it clear that Sterling’s out-of-control D.P.W. pricks, and Weston & Sampson, want to build a Garage Mahal/Truck Palace as a monument to themselves at Sterling property taxpayer expense.

DESPITE BEING SHELLACKED AT THE 13 NOVEMBER 2025 SPECIAL TOWN MEETING, STERLING’S OUT-OF-CONTROL D.P.W. PRICKS STILL WANT TO PARK ALL THEIR TRUCKS IN A HEATED GARAGE INSTEAD OF UNDER A CARPORT-EQUIVALENT ‘POLE BARN’

Despite the clear message Sterling voters sent the arrogant, out-of-control Sterling D.P.W. pricks on 13 November 2025, those pricks still insist on parking their trucks in a heated garage despite the fact that constructing a ‘pole barn’ to shelter those trucks would save Sterling property taxpayers untold $Millions.

Here is what a ‘pole barn’ kit looks like:

Boost Your Property Value with Pole Barn Carport

The Sterling D.P.W.’s trucks, front-end loaders, etc., are designed and manufactured to be parked outdoors.

WESTON & SAMPSON, THE COMMISSION-HUNGRY PARASITES, ARE NOW IN A CONFLICT OF INTEREST IN PURPORTEDLY PRICING NEEDED IMPROVEMENTS/UPGRADES TO THE EXISTING STERLING D.P.W. FACILITY

As revealed during the 15 January 2026 Joint Finance Committee-CBC meeting, Weston & Sampson, those commission-hungry parasites, will purportedly price needed improvements/upgrades to Sterling’s existing D.P.W. facility for Sterling voters’ consideration. WHAT A JOKE. Weston & Sampson is now in a blatant conflict of interest on that score. It will deliberately INFLATE the list and costs of needed upgrades because it REALLY wants to be paid a commission on A BRAND NEW FACILITY OF ITS DESIGN.

AS ALSO REVEALED DURING THAT 15 JANUARY 2026 MEETING, DUE TO THE TOWN OF STERLING’S DISASTROUS FISCAL CONDITION AND POTENTIAL PROPOSITION 2 ½ PROPERTY TAX OVERRIDE THE D.P.W. IS NOW BACKING AWAY FROM A MAY 2026 STERLING ANNUAL TOWN MEETING VOTE ON ITS REPACKAGED GARAGE MAHAL/TRUCK PALACE AND WILL PROBABLY REQUEST ANOTHER SPECIAL TOWN MEETING. READ BETWEEN THE LINES.

It looks like the Sterling D.P.W. pricks want to wage a continued war on Sterling taxpayers/voters. I hereby assure them that the war is reciprocal.

Stay tuned.

J.G.

THE PAYROLL-BLOATED, SUB-STANDARD WACHUSETT REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT FORCES HOLDEN, PAXTON, AND RUTLAND INTO MAY-JUNE 2026 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING PROPOSITION 2 ½ OVERRIDE VOTES

Anyone with half a brain and paying attention saw this WRSD-caused financial disaster coming for years. While WRSD total student enrollment plummeted by more than 1000–14.5%– from Fiscal Year 2010 to now, the feckless patronage-cycling hacks constituting the WRSD Administration and District Committee kept hiring unneeded personnel, bloating the ranks of mau-mauing unionized parasites clamoring for guaranteed raises as they exploded the WRSD budget from $81.3 million in FY 2015 to $129,515,225 this Fiscal Year, a WHOPPING 59.3% increase in just eleven (11) fiscal years. The jump from last Fiscal Year’s budget of $121.9 million was HUGE, even after it was revealed that WRSD students were performing 3 grade levels behind in reading and mathematics. For years brilliant WRSD Superintendents and Committee members handicapped students by rejecting tried-and-true phonics as a learning method. Yeah, they’re friggin’ brilliant alright.

Here in Sterling a succession of SELECT BOARD WRSD-PANDERING TWITS played along. They figured that if they bucked the local tax-fattened WRSD employee-hyenas and the mommies and daddies of students they’d have a hard time getting elected/re-elected. So screw ALL the property taxpayers, full-speed ahead! YEAH, I’m looking at YOU, Kirsten Newman, insufferable go-along virtue-signaling invertebrate twit, and YOU, Maureen “Our Lady of Perpetual Bullshit” Cranson. By the way, Kirsten Newman is up for re-election in May 2026. I’m going to have a bunch of yard signs made up saying “FOR SELECT BOARD: ANYONE BUT KIRSTEN NEWMAN.” Will an intelligent, principled, stalwart, fiscally prudent challenger PLEASE step up???

In the last 13 years ONLY TWO Sterling Finance Committee Chairs had the cojones to challenge WRSD budget requests ‘above [Sterling’s] state-required net minimum contribution’ at Sterling Annual Town Meetings— Larry Pape in 2012 and the late George Handy a couple years ago, may God rest him. SO WHAT DID STERLING’S WRSD ASS-KISSING SELECT BOARD PU$$IES DO IN RESPONSE??? They refused to re-appoint them to the Finance Committee when their terms expired soon after. LESSON LEARNED BY STERLING FINANCE COMMITTEE APPLICANTS AND MEMBERS—you can’t display any cojones or sound independent judgment upsetting ANY of the owners of the asses the Invertebrate Sterling Select Board Poseurs are kissing or you won’t get appointed/re-appointed to the Sterling Finance Committee. The result: there are absolutely NO COJONES being displayed by the Finance Committee. They didn’t even buck the absolutely OUTRAGEOUS and ABSURD Sterling D.P.W. $33 Million/37,000 square foot Garage Mahal Boondoggle, and they aren’t bucking the Garage Mahal Boondoggle Sequel, because the D.P.W. Superintendent, the D.P.W. Board, and the Select Board are all engaged in MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL CRONY-CLASS ASS-KISSING at Sterling property taxpayers’ expense.

During the 15 January 2026 Joint Sterling Finance Committee-Capital Budget Committee Meeting it was revealed that Holden, Paxton, and Rutland have been backed against the wall and will have general, operating budget Proposition 2 ½ Override votes at their respective May-June 2026 Annual Town Meetings. We know how they got there—THEIR Select Boards and Finance Committees pandered to the incompetent, degenerate, profligate patronage-cycling hacks constituting the WRSD Committee and Administration. They kicked the taxpayer-supplied money can down the road until the Proposition 2 ½ debt limit road ran out. If THEIR respective Select Boards have ANY balls– and that is a legitimate question– they will make approval of the Holden, Paxton, and Rutland WRSD budget requests above their Towns’ state-required net minimum contributions–NOT THEIR TOWN OPERATING BUDGETS– contingent upon passage of Proposition 2 1/2 overrides in town-wide votes.

Sterling will be the next victim, thanks primarily to our feckless, incompetent, invertebrate, vacuous Select Board, and secondarily to our Finance Committee who, in the face of WRSD overreach, have firmly maintained their thumbs up their asses since said Select Board kicked the late George Handy to the curb. CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU ALL!!!

My next piece, in a few days, will be about the STILL-OUTRAGEOUS Sterling D.P.W. Garage Mahal Boondoggle Sequel.

Stay tuned.

J.G.

PRINCETON AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM INSTRUCTOR- GROOMER PERVERT POSSESSED SEXUALLY EXPLICIT PHOTOGRAPHS OF AT LEAST ONE CHILD HE KNEW, SHOT HIMSELF DURING POLICE SEARCH WARRANT RAID

John Buffington, age 67, was hired by the Town of Princeton Recreation Department as an after-school program instructor in “woodworking, kite-making, and primitive skills.” Officials were tipped off that he possessed child pornography. He possessed sexually explicit photographs of at least one child he knew. He committed suicide during a police raid in execution of a search warrant. SAYONARA, SCUMBAG!

SEE:  https://www.lowellsun.com/2026/01/10/apparent-suicide-of-instructor-as-cops-check-out-child-sexual-case/

J.G.

THE WACHUSETT REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, A DYSFUNCTIONAL MONEY PIT, DESPITE RENEWING “SCHOOL CHOICE” FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR, CONTINUES ITS TOTAL STUDENT ENROLLMENT SLIDE AND DROPS ANOTHER 130 SINCE LAST YEAR

The WRSD is a dysfunctional money pit run by dishonest ‘Woke’ incompetents. Despite the WRSD Committee renewing ‘School Choice’ for this 2025-2026 fiscal year—encouraging students from neighboring school districts to enroll in the WRSD rather than their home districts—in a blatantly transparent attempt to boost WRSD enrollment numbers and thereby try for more state funding, the WRSD failed abysmally. Its total student enrollment numbers dropped 130 since last fiscal year, from 6557 to 6427.

SEE: 

https://profiles.doe.mass.edu/profiles/student.aspx?orgcode=07750505&orgtypecode=6

The WRSD’s peak total enrollment of 7493 was reached in Fiscal Year 2010. It has been falling ever since—by more than 1000—or 14.5%.

WHILE WRSD TOTAL STUDENT ENROLLMENT DROPPED 14.5% SINCE FY 2010, THE WRSD BUDGET HAS INCREASED FROM $81.3 MILLION IN FY 2015 TO $129,515,225 THIS FISCAL YEAR 2026, A WHOPPING 59.3% IN JUST ELEVEN (11) FISCAL YEARS.

THAT’S AN ABSOLUTE OUTRAGE AND AN OUTRIGHT INSULT TO EVERY SINGLE DISTRICT TAXPAYER.

THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION IS WELL AWARE OF THE WRSD’S STUDENT ENROLLMENT SLIDE AND, THEREFORE, HAS LIMITED STATE FUNDING TO THE WRSD ACCORDINGLY.

BUT THE MORONS CONSTITUTING THE STERLING FINANCE COMMITTEE CITE THE STATE FREEZE AS A REASON TO BOOST LOCAL WRSD FUNDING, AT TAXPAYER EXPENSE, PRECIPITOUSLY, WHILE WRSD TOTAL STUDENT ENROLLMENT FALLS OFF THE TABLE. THEY ARE ABSOLUTE SPINELESS DOPES.

You can read what the Sterling Finance Committee said about that here:

https://sterlingmassachusettsoverwatch.com/2025/06/11/i-shih-tzu-not-the-sterling-finance-committee-lapdogs-are-just-fine-with-out-of-control-wachusett-regional-school-district-spending-and-kicking-sterlings-fiscal-time-bomb/

This year the WRSD is pushing every single District town into Proposition 2 ½ override territory. LET’S WATCH AND SEE HOW STERLING’S FINANCE COMMITTEE AND SELECT BOARD MORONS HANDLE THAT DISASTER, A FISCAL DISASTER YEARS IN THE MAKING DUE TO THEIR GUTLESS INCOMPETENCE.

Stay tuned.

J.G.

BAD NEWS FOR THE WACHUSETT REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT LGBTQ BRAINWASHING GROOMER PERVERTS—LEXINGTON DAD OBTAINS FEDERAL COURT PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION AGAINST LEXINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS PROTECTING HIS KINDERGARTENER SON FROM EXPOSURE TO LGBTQ PROPAGANDA

Thanks to the June 2025 LANDMARK U.S. Supreme Court “Opt Out” decision in Mahmoud vs. Taylor— https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-297_4f14.pdf — a Lexington Dad has obtained a Massachusetts Federal Court preliminary injunction against the Lexington Public Schools, thereby protecting his kindergartener son from LGBTQ propaganda materials foisted upon him by Lexington Public Schools LGBTQ Brainwashing Groomer Perverts.

SEE:

Massachusetts father who sued school district over kindergarten books with LGBTQ characters scores win in court

https://mafamily.org/2025/11/07/breaking-preliminary-injunction-filed-in-lexington-lawsuit-after-school-teaches-lgbtq-content-to-kindergartener-refuses-opt-out/

You can read the Massachusetts Federal Court’s Memorandum and Order here:

Click to access alan-v-lexington-usdc-mass-ruling.pdf

I’m sure that the organization “Gays Against Groomers” is pleased about this ruling.

SEE:  https://www.radar.gaysagainstgroomers.com/

Stay tuned.

J.G.