STERLING, MASSACHUSETTS, OVERWATCH
Preserving the Town's Character. Saving Taxpayer Dollars. Fighting Cronyism.
HERE IT IS FOLKS!!!—
What a coincidence! It’s right up the road from Weston & Sampson’s 16 Legate Hill Road “Service Location.” Who knew???
https://www.westonandsampson.com/contact-us (Scroll down to “Service Locations”)
You tellin’ me Weston & Sampson did not know that this facility was on the market???!!!
So who’s REALLY getting “serviced” here in Sterling???
J.G.
FOLKS, Sterling Annual Town Meeting voters, on 4 May 2026, voted down in clear and convincing fashion BOTH of the Sterling D.P.W.’s outrageous proposed scams. The proposed $25.5 million D.P.W. Garage Mahal Boondoggle was shot down in flames by a vote of 286 to 227, and the D.P.W.’s absurd Boondoggle II, its plan to replace the historic 420 foot long stone-and-mortar Oak Hill Cemetery Retaining Wall, most of which is still solid despite its approximate 170 year age, and all of which can be repaired by a competent stone mason company, the replacement cost projected to be $3.5 to $5 million, was voted down overwhelmingly in short order. BOTH the Finance Committee and the Capital Budget Committee, displaying some common sense for a change, voted unanimously—6 to 0—against the Oak Hill Cemetery Retaining Wall Replacement Scam.
THE INSIDE SCOOP ON THE PLANNED D.P.W. AND MUNICIPAL BUILDING ELECTION DAY DIRTY TRICKS
On 6 May 2026 a loyal reader of this Blog and a reliable source was at the Sterling Municipal Building and learned that the D.P.W. and Municipal Building hacks are mobilizing their CRONY NETWORK to come out on Election Day, 11 May 2026, to vote in favor of Ballot Questions 2 and 3, THE TWO AFOREMENTIONED D.P.W. SCAMS SHOT DOWN AT THE ANNUAL TOWN MEETING. As shown by Town Meeting voting results in recent years, that dedicated Town Clown Crony Network numbers, consistently, about 200.
SO WHY ORCHESTRATE THIS NOW-MOOT VOTE??? BECAUSE THE D.P.W. and Municipal Building Dirty Trickster Hacks want to say that a positive ballot trend for Questions 2 and 3 indicates ‘Town-wide support by voters who could not make it to the 2026 Annual Town Meeting.’ IN OTHER WORDS, GINNED-UP BULLSHIT BECAUSE THEY WANT TO BRING BACK BOTH DEFEATED D.P.W. SCAMS FOR YET ANOTHER SPECIAL TOWN MEETING VOTE.
SO, IT IS IN YOUR BEST INTERESTS TO COME OUT ON ELECTION DAY, MONDAY, 11 MAY 2026, 12:00 NOON TO 7 P.M. AT THE HOUGHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GYM, AND VOTE ‘NO’ ON BALLOT QUESTIONS 2 AND 3.
Here is the Sample Ballot for reference:
https://www.sterling-ma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/8311/STERLING-ATE-SAMPLE?bidId=
J.G.
Those who attended the 4 May 2026 Sterling Annual Town meeting know that the Sterling D.P.W.’s ABSOLUTELY DISGRACEFUL Warrant Article 17, “OAK HILL CEMETERY RETAINING WALL DESIGN,” was rightly and quickly shot down in hot blue flames trailing from Sterling D.P.W. Director Ryan Mouradian’s incompetent ass. He wanted $100,000 to hire an engineering firm to design a REPLACEMENT retaining wall rather repair the existing historical stonework wall. To their credit the Finance Committee and Capital Budget Committee, displaying some common sense for a change, both voted unanimously NOT to support Article 17 BECAUSE THE TOTAL END COST FOR THAT PROPOSED SCAM WAS GOING TO BE $3.5 MILLION TO $5 MILLION, AN ABSOLUTELY ABSURD SUM ESPECIALLY SINCE THE EXISTING RETAINING WALL CAN BE RESTORED BY STONE MASONS, PROBABLY AT A COST LESS THAN $200,000.
DISCLOSURE: I’m just an amateur but I’ve done pretty damned good stone-and-mortar-chimney repairs, as a volunteer, on the 70-80 year old cabin chimneys located on the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Cold River Camp property in New Hampshire. And I’ll be back doing it this season. ANY DECENT STONE MASON COMPANY WITH A BACKHOE, BOBCAT, HAND TOOLS, AND A LOT OF ‘TYPE S’ MORTAR CAN REPAIR THE EXISTING OAK HILL CEMETERY STONE-AND-MORTAR RETAINING WALL.
On 6 May 2026 I traveled over to Oak Hill Cemetery with my 300 foot and 25 foot measuring tapes. I didn’t take notes. The retaining wall proper is 420 feet long. About 105 feet from its southwesterly end—the end closest to the Sterling Post Office—it reaches its maximum height of about 7 feet, 1 inch above the sidewalk. From that high point it tapers downward toward each end. The northeasterly end is about knee high and the southwesterly end is about thigh high.
EYEBALLING IT ALONG ITS ENTIRE LENGTH, FROM ITS BASE UPWARDS ABOUT 2/3 TO 5/6 OF THE WAY, THE WALL IS VERTICAL/PLUMB AND CAN EASILY BE RE-MORTARED. MECHANICAL AUGERS CAN BE USED CLEAN OUT SPACES FOR NEW PERFORATED PVC DRAINAGE PIPES TO REPLACE THE CLOGGED, OLD, FIRED-CLAY DRAINAGE PIPES.
It is reported that Oak Hill Cemetery was established in 1858. Assuming that its retaining wall was built about that time, it is approaching 170 years old. Over time water-laden (heavy) upper soil levels slowly slumped down the steep slope and pushed the heavy granodiorite (granite) capstone blocks (from the old Leavitt Quarry, South Monoosnoc Hill, Leominster) toward Clinton Road. They were mortared in so they, in turn, dragged stones beneath them toward Clinton Road. SO, REALLY, IT IS ONLY THE UPPER PORTIONS OF THAT RETAINING WALL THAT MUST BE RE-POSITIONED AND RE-ALIGNED.
PROPOSED REPLACEMENT OF THAT WALL IS UTTER UNNECESSARY BULLSHIT.
MEMO TO THE STERLING D.P.W. BOARD AND DIRECTOR:
Cut out the consulting engineering bullshit, contact these Central Massachusetts Stone Masons, get bids, then fix the friggin’ wall—
https://stonebmasonry.com/stone-walls/
https://centralmassmasonry.com/
MEMO TO STERLING VOTERS:
On 11 May 2026, between 12:00 Noon and 7 p.m., be sure to vote and vote ‘NO’ on Question 2, thereby driving a second stake through this canned bullshit.
Here is the Sample Ballot for reference:
https://www.sterling-ma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/8311/STERLING-ATE-SAMPLE?bidId=
J.G.
WHAT: Sterling Annual Town Meeting
WHEN: 4 May 2026, 6:30 p.m. . DUE TO THE EXPECTED BIG TURNOUT PLEASE GET THERE EARLY TO FIND PARKING AND CHECK IN
WHERE: Chocksett Middle School, 40 Boutelle Road, Sterling
WHY: Protect Your Wallets and Keep the Property Tax Rate Lower for the Next 30 Years by Voting Down the Exorbitant, Outrageous $25.5 Million Sterling D.P.W. Garage Mahal Boondoggle, Warrant Article 18 (The sum referred to includes the $500,000 approved at the May 2025 Annual Town Meeting for Study and Design of this Gigantic Scam). SEE Warrant Article 18 here:
https://www.sterling-ma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/8304/2026-ATM-Final
WARNING: If Article 18 is defeated (the D.P.W. Board Hacks and their fellow idiots on the D.P.W. Facilities Committee, Select Board, Finance Committee, and Capital Budget Committee need to prevail by a 2/3 vote) its buffoon-boosters have one (1) hour thereafter to make a Motion for a re-vote. SO STICK AROUND until the Annual Town Meeting is adjourned.
FOLKS, this time around the Sterling D.P.W. Board, D.P.W. Facilities Committee, Select Board, Finance Committee, and Capital Budget Committee have ALL insulted your intelligence by throwing you a bone in the form of a WAAAAAY OVERPRICED D.P.W. Garage Mahal Boondoggle 8600 square feet smaller, priced at $25.5 million for 28,400 square feet (2/3 of an acre), or $898 per square foot, IN PLACE OF the 37,000 square foot, $33 million, $892 per square foot Garage Mahal Boondoggle that the Townspeople, at the 13 November 2025 Special Town Meeting, SHELLACKED by a vote of 373 to 183.
The aforesaid stupid, bent, incompetent, callous, irresponsible Sterling Town Government officials have outright refused and neglected to undertake ‘comparison shopping’ to save Sterling property taxpayers money when cheaper alternatives were and are readily available and searchable on the internet. Instead, they hired municipal property tax money parasites Weston & Sampson Engineers, as designers, and Vertex as the project manager, BOTH exorbitant and with a track records of hosing Massachusetts municipal taxpayers on various public projects. BOTH JUST HAPPEN to have employees/CRONIES living right here in Sterling. YEAH, by contract we are now, in essence, paying THEIR Sterling property taxes. More on that below.
A. TWO READILY APPARENT CHEAPER ALTERNATIVE MASSACHUSETTS D.PW. FACILITY EXAMPLES—
1. The Town of Marion, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
In February 2026, just two months ago, the Town of Marion opened its brand new 14,400 square foot, $5.2 million, $361 per square foot D.P.W. facility. It came in at $300,000 under budget. NOTE that the Town of Marion saved ITS taxpayers BIG TIME by NOT hiring WESTON & SAMPSON ENGINEERS or VERTEX. Instead, it hired Saltonstall Architects, and Shaun Cormier as project manager.
SEE:
https://news.jgpr.net/2026/02/17/town-of-marion-unveils-new-dpw-operations-building-with-ribbon-cutting-and-tours/ (Scroll down to see all photos)
NOTE: The Sterling D.P.W. does not need an oversized 28,400 square foot (2/3 acre) D.P.W. facility BUT if it did it could have put one up for $10 million by hiring Salstonstall Architects and an individual project manager such as Shaun Cormier INSTEAD of municipal property tax parasites Weston & Sampson Engineers and Vertex.
2. The nearby Town of Berlin, Worcester County, Massachusetts
In 2018 the nearby Town of Berlin opened its new 13,474 square foot Highway Department facility costing $4.1 million, or $304 per square foot. If you add in the 3840 square foot Loft/Storage Area the per square foot cost is even LESS.
And GEE, what a surprise, the Town of Berlin saved ITS property taxpayers HUGE $$$ by NOT HIRING the municipal property tax parasites Weston & Sampson Engineers or Vertex.
THAT building is PRE-FABRICATED STEEL, ENERGY EFFICIENT, and was built by Pezzuco Construction of Rhode Island.
SEE:
https://www.telegram.com/picture-gallery/news/local/the-item/2018/10/19/item-slideshow-berlin-opens-new/66264209007/ (Check out all the photos)
NOTE: At the May 2025 Sterling Annual Town Meeting two (2) D.P.W. Facilities Committee callous, fiscally irresponsible, out of control A$$HOLES were designated to answer questions. When I asked them if they had gone along Pratts Junction Road, Chocksett Road, and over to James Monroe Wire & Cable to check steel building prices that would favor Sterling’s taxpayers they answered “NO.” The voters approved $500,000 in seed money for the D.P.W. Garage Mahal Boondoggle design anyway. They probably regret that vote now.
See 2025 Warrant Article 25, page 18—
https://www.sterling-ma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/5803/2025-May-5-Annual-Town-Meeting-Warrant?bidId=
B. THE PROPOSITION 2 ½ TAX OVERIDE/DEBT EXCLUSION AND THE COST OF THE PROPOSED $25.5 MILLION D.P.W. GARAGE MAHAL BOONDOGGLE TO THE AVERAGE STERLING TAXPAYER OVER THE 30 YEAR LIFE OF THE NEEDED BORROWING BOND
The A$$HOLES pushing the Sterling D.P.W. Garage Mahal Boondoggle need a Proposition 2 ½ Tax Override/Debt Exclusion and a 30 year borrowing bond for this gigantic scam. In the April 2026 Sterling Meetinghouse News Jonathan Marini, the callous, fiscally irresponsible, out of control D.P.W. Garage Mahal Boondoggle shill and chair of the D.P.W. Facility Committee, wrote that this BOONDOGGLE is projected to increase the Sterling tax rate by 5.56%, or about $426 per year for the average single-family home. WHAT THAT A$$HOLE DID NOT TELL YOU IS THAT COST WILL BE FOR 30 YEARS, THE LIFE OF THE 30 YEAR BORROWING BOND NEEDED FOR THIS SCAM. SO THOSE AVERAGE HOME OWNERS CAN EXPECT TO PAY AT LEAST $426 x 30, OR $12,780 during the life of that bond. Those figures will be even higher if the borrowing interest rates increase. YEAH, THESE A$$HOLES definitely DO NOT want you to know the whole truth.
C. THE INEXPENSIVE ‘POLE BARN’ D.P.W. VEHICLE STORAGE SOLUTION
In case you didn’t know it, the Sterling D.P.W.’s trucks and other vehicles have been parked outdoors in the weather FOREVER, meaning EVER SINCE STERLING HAS HAD A D.P.W.. BUT, BUT, BUT NOW, ALL OF A SUDDEN, THOSE TRUCKS AND OTHER VEHICLES HAVE BECOME VERY, VERY, SENSITIVE AND MUST (WINK, WINK) BE PARKED INDOORS IN HEATED SPACE, OR ELSE VERY TERRIBLE THINGS MAY HAPPEN TO THEM! AT LEAST THAT’S WHAT THE PAMPERED PUKES RUNNING THE D.P.W. AND THEIR ALLIES WOULD HAVE YOU BELIEVE. YEAH, they want the D.P.W.’s trucks and other vehicles to live BETTER THAN YOURS, AT YOUR EXPENSE AS TAXPAYERS. NOW DO YOU SEE HOW THE GOVERNMENT-OPERATIVE/EMPLOYEE ENTITLEMENT MENTALITY WORKS?!
The truth is that Sterling D.P.W. can park its trucks and other vehicles in VERY, VERY NICE unheated ‘pole barns,’ thereby saving Sterling property taxpayers A LOT of money. SO LET’S FORCE THEM TO DO IT.
Check out these examples of VERY, VERY NICE pole barns:
https://www.lesterbuildings.com/farm-buildings/pole-barns/
D. THE WESTON & SAMPSON ENGINEERS AND VERTEX PARASITES/CRONIES/ENEMIES WITHIN
I bet that y’all are SHOCKED, SHOCKED to learn that there are Weston & Sampson and Vertex employees living right here in Sterling who REALLY, REALLY want to parasitize ALL of YOU Sterling property taxpayers VIA the Sterling D.P.W. Garage Mahal Boondoggle. That way THEY can pay THEIR Sterling property taxes WITH YOUR TAX DOLLARS.
WELL, IT’S TRUE. Let’s take Vertex Senior Project Manager Stephen Theran for starters– https://vertexeng.com/team-member/steve-theran/
Under the Vertex project management contract entered into for the D.P.W. Garage Mahal Boondoggle, his time is billed out to US at $190 per hour. SWEEEET!
And Stephen Theran JUST HAPPENS to reside on a 7.63 acre compound located at 19 Hardscrabble Road, Sterling.
CHECK OUT 19 Hardscrabble Road here: https://www.axisgis.com/SterlingMA/#
It is reported that ANOTHER Vertex employee resides in Sterling too but I don’t have his/her name.
AND then there is the Weston & Sampson employee who resides in Sterling and who has been seen with D.P.W. Director Ryan Mouradian at various Sterling Board and Committee meetings concerning the D.P.W. Garage Mahal Boondoggle. I don’t know his name either.
BUT I do know that there JUST HAPPENS TO BE a Weston & Sampson satellite office/ “Service Location” at 16 Legate Hill Road, Sterling. WHO KNEW???
SEE: https://www.westonandsampson.com/contact-us#locations (Scroll down to “Service Locations”)
Have you gotten the impression that Sterling Town Government officials are getting ‘serviced’??? Me too.
CONCLUSION
Vote not to screw yourselves. Vote down the Sterling D.P.W. Garage Mahal Boondoggle, Warrant Article 18, at the 4 May 2026 Sterling Annual Town Meeting.
J.G.
FOLKS, PLEASE CALL ME AT (978) 660-2806 AND GET YOUR COMPANION SET OF LAWN SIGNS—DELIVERED!
One lawn sign says:
STOP THE D.P.W.
$25.5 MILLION
GARAGE MAHAL BOONDOGGLE
and its companion lawn sign says:
DEFEAT THE D.P.W.
PROP 2 1/2 TAX
OVERRIDE/DEBT EXCLUSION
LET’S SPREAD THESE LAWN SIGNS ALL ACROSS STERLING WELL BEFORE THE 4 MAY 2026 STERLING ANNUAL TOWN MEETING.
THE HARMFUL PARASITES ADVOCATING THIS MONSTROSITY AT A COST OF $900 PER SQUARE FOOT FOR 28,400 SQUARE FEET OF SPACE ARE SO ARROGANT AND CALLOUS THAT THEY DID NOT EVEN BOTHER TRYING TO ECONOMIZE AND GO COMPARISON SHOPPING TO SAVE STERLING TAXPAYERS’ MONEY.
MEANWHILE, THE TOWN OF MARION, PLYMOUTH COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS, OPENED TWO MONTHS AGO ITS NEW 14,400 SQUARE FOOT D.P.W. BUILDING AT A TOTAL COST OF $5.2 MILLION OR $361 PER SQUARE FOOT.
SEE https://news.jgpr.net/2026/02/17/town-of-marion-unveils-new-dpw-operations-building-with-ribbon-cutting-and-tours/ (Scroll down to see all photos)
NOTABLY, THE TOWN OF MARION HIRED SALTONSTALL ARCHITECTS AS THE DESIGNER AND MR. SHAUN CORMIER AS PROJECT MANAGER, NOT WESTON & SAMPSON ENGINEERS OR VERTEX, BOTH OUTRIGHT BLOODSUCKERS HIRED BY THE TOWN OF STERLING.
HELP PROTECT YOUR WALLETS FOR THE NEXT 30 YEARS—THE TERM OF THE BORROWING BOND THE D.P.W. WANTS—AND GET YOUR LAWN SIGNS DELIVERED.
THEN SHOW UP AND VOTE DOWN THIS ABSOLUTE BOONDOGGLE AT THE 4 MAY 2026 STERLING ANNUAL TOWN MEETING.
Stay tuned!
J.G.
FOLKS, if you encounter any town officials anywhere matching the outright stupidity and cowardice of Rutland’s Select Board and Finance Committee, please let me know. It is impossible for me to imagine more stupid invertebrates than they.
CHECK OUT RUTLAND’S MULTI-YEAR PROPOSITION 2 ½ OVERRIDE PLANS HERE:
https://www.rutlandma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/3540/Multi-Year-Override-Flyer?bidId=
Rutland’s Select Board and Finance Committee admit that Rutland is getting screwed outright by the WRSD year after year, BUT, instead of making Rutland’s WRSD assessments above Rutland’s state-required net minimum contributions contingent upon passage of Proposition 2 ½ overrides, THEY MAKE THE RUTLAND MUNICIPAL BUDGET SUBJECT TO MULTI-YEAR PLANNED PROPOSITION 2 ½ OVERRIDES.
ZERO BRAINS, ZERO COJONES. THIS IS NOW A HUGE WRSD DISTRICT-WIDE TOWN GOVERNMENT PROBLEM.
Stay tuned.
J.G.
WELL FOLKS, last year the cowardly buffoons running the Town of Holden spent EVERY DIME of Holden’s available funds to stave off a Proposition 2 ½ override. This year their cowardice and stupidity caught up with them and bit them in the ass BIG TIME. SO, Holden voters will be presented with a $5.5 Million Proposition 2 ½ Override on 11 May 2026.
SEE: https://www.thelandmark.com/
WHAT BACKED THE TOWN OF HOLDEN INTO THIS GIGANTIC FINANCIAL HOLE ???
NONE OTHER THAN THE BLOATED, OVER-SPENDING, SUB-STANDARD WACHUSETT REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT THAT CONTINUED TO HIRE ADDITIONAL EMPLOYEES EACH YEAR—NOW TOTALING MORE THAN 1000—WHILE THE WRSD TOTAL STUDENT ENROLLMENT PLUMMETED FROM 7493 IN FISCAL YEAR 2010 TO 6427 THIS YEAR.
THAT’S A DROP OF 14.5%. IT IS CLEAR THAT PARENTS ARE SEEKING ALTERNATIVES TO THE ‘WOKE,’ DEI-INFESTED, LGBTQ-GROOMING WRSD FOR THEIR CHILDREN.
AS THE WRSD HEMORRHAGED STUDENTS IT KEPT ADDING EMPLOYEES AND ITS BUDGET SKYROCKETED FROM $81.3 MILLION IN FISCAL YEAR 2015 TO $129,515,225 THIS YEAR—A 59.3% INCREASE IN A MERE 11 YEARS.
THE WRSD NOW HAS 1 EMPLOYEE FOR EVERY 6.4 STUDENTS. THAT’S INSANE.
MEANWHILE, THE STUPID, TESTICLE-CHALLENGED SELECT BOARDS AND FINANCE COMMITTEES IN HOLDEN, PAXTON, PRINCETON, RUTLAND, AND STERLING SUPPORTED THE WRSD’S RUNAWAY HOSING OF DISTRICT TAXPAYERS AND THE PLUNDERING OF THEIR MUNICIPAL BUDGETS.
THEY HAVE ZERO CREDIBILITY–ON ANYTHING. REMEMBER THAT AT UPCOMING ANNUAL TOWN MEETINGS.
Stay tuned.
J.G.
J.G.
YEP, Kirsten Newman, California Blow-In, and Blaine Bershad, both reflexive tax-and-spenders and members of the Sterling DemocRAT Town Committee (of course!), are running unopposed for re-election to the Sterling Select Board and the D.P.W. Board, respectively.
Incompetent and insufferable Kirsten Newman, and her husband, Eric, the latter being Vice-Chair of the Planning Board, are more loyal to the pro-development Montachusett Regional Planning Commission, and hence the Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities (EOHLC)(an oxymoron joke), than they are to the Town of Sterling and its taxpaying citizens. They stuck themselves on the Montachusett Regional Planning Commission Board, headquartered in Leominster, which is chock-full of “MBTA Zoning” asslicks like them who are out to ‘radically transform’ Sterling with massively increased housing unit development, thereby destroying Sterling’s small-town, semi-rural character. In other words, they are YIMBY Assholes out to CALIFORNICATE Sterling. Moreover, Kirsten Newman never met someone else’s hard-earned tax dollars she wouldn’t spend in a heartbeat.
Like ALL DemocRATS their motto is: “What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is mine too.” For students of history, that’s the Commie doctrine in a nutshell.
As for Blaine Bershad, he’s an architect on the D.P.W. Board out to build a bloated, exorbitant monument to himself—the proposed Sterling D.P.W. Garage Mahal Truck Palace—at Sterling taxpayer expense to the tune of $25,535,000 for 28,000 square feet (2/3 acre), or $912 per square foot.
Kirsten Newman, it should be noted, has no objection to this BLOATED BOONDOGGLE MONSTROSITY.
If good ol’ tax-and-spend Blaine and his D.P.W. cronies ditched the tax-hungry parasites known as Weston & Sampson Engineers, Inc. and Vertex (the project manager), we Sterling taxpayers could get a perfectly serviceable 14,400 square foot D.P.W. building for $5.2 million, or $361 per square foot, like the Town of Marion, Massachusetts, with similar population and land area, just did.
SEE https://news.jgpr.net/2026/02/17/town-of-marion-unveils-new-dpw-operations-building-with-ribbon-cutting-and-tours/ Scroll down to see the photos.
BUT NOOO, THAT WOULDN’T BE AN EXTRAVAGANT ENOUGH MONUMENT TO BLAINE AND HIS STERLING D.P.W. CRONIES. HE AND THEY PREFER TO SCREW US TO THE MAX.
By the way, while the Sterling D.P.W. is responsible for trash pick-up in Town, back in 2024 Blaine and his partner, Will Sherwood, had a trash-burning incident on their very own property. It seems that someone torched their Harris-Walz yard sign (OF COURSE, AS ROBOTIC DemocRATS, THEY SUPPORTED AIRHEAD CACKLING KAMALA HARRIS AND TIM ‘SOMALI FRAUD’ WALZ) and a couple of adjacent yard signs, including one for DemocRAT Congress Critter James ‘Commie Cuba Jim’ McGovern, seen below with, and as a FANBOY of, the late Ruthless Cuban Commie Dictator Fidel Castro—
Here is a news report on that trash-burning incident:
When interviewed about the incident Blaine Bershad said that “Fascism is alive in Sterling, Massachusetts (emphasis added).”
Just what you’d expect out of a Commie. Commies have no sense of irony.
AND SO FOLKS, we sane Sterling taxpayers continue to get the Sterling Town Government we definitely don’t deserve.
Watch your wallets and stay tuned.
J.G.
WELL FOLKS, it should come as NO SURPRISE WHATSOEVER that Weston & Sampson Engineers, Inc., an exorbitant outfit expert at ABSOLUTELY SCREWING TAXPAYERS ACROSS MASSACHUSETTS, hired by Sterling Town Government’s callous, stupid, incompetent, groupthink, go-along, lemming, tax-and-spend ASSHOLES to design Sterling’s proposed, re-packaged $25,535,000 twenty-eight thousand (28,000) square foot Garage Mahal Truck Palace Boondoggle at $912 per square foot, was retained by Holden to design Holden’s OWN Garage Mahal Truck Palace Boondoggle.
SCROLL DOWN AND SEE ALL THE PLANS, INCLUDING THE WESTON & SAMPSON ENGINEERS, INC. GREEN AND WHITE LOGO IN THE RIGHT MARGIN:
Holden’s population is 20,000. Sterling’s is 8000. NO COMPARISON.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden,_Massachusetts
Ryan Mouradian, now Sterling’s D.P.W. Director, used to be the Holden D.P.W. Superintendent and was “Ex Officio” member on Holden’s D.P.W. Garage Mahal Truck Palace facilities committee.
SEE https://www.holdenma.gov/people/ryan-mouradian
Mouradian and his cronies are touting Holden’s Garage Mahal Truck Palace as an example for us to follow.
Only a month or so ago Mouradian was touting the new Norwood D.P.W. Garage Mahal Truck Palace–
— ALSO designed by Weston & Sampson Engineers, as an example for Sterling to follow. He and his cronies neglected to mention that Norwood’s population is 32,000—
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwood,_Massachusetts –
OH, AND HERE’S ANOTHER ‘COINCIDENCE’—VERTEX WAS THE NORWOOD D.P.W. PROJECT MANAGER AND IS NOW THE STERLING GARAGE MAHAL TRUCK PALACE BOONDOGGLE PROJECT MANAGER.
Unfortunately, the Vertex link I posted failed to connect but you can do your own search engine word search and find the Vertex-Norwood D.P.W. link.
AND STEVE THERAN, VERTEX SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER, JUST HAPPENS TO LIVE HERE IN STERLING ON HIS 7+ ACRE COMPOUND AT 19 HARDSCRABBLE ROAD.
Check HIM out at the Vertex website if this link fails to connect–
Don’t you just love the smell of cronyism and conflicts of interest in the morning???
Ryan Mouradian, a Professional Engineer, is so far up Weston & Sampson Engineers’ collective asses that only his heels are now visible. He looks more like a Weston & Sampson shill than a prudent, cost-conscious Sterling employee who is supposed to be guarding Sterling taxpayers’ interests.
I’d like to know ALL the connections to Weston & Sampson Engineers he’s had over the years.. HEY RYAN, WHY DON’T YOU POST YOUR COMPLETE CURRICULUM VITAE/RESUME ON THE STERLING D.P.W. WEBPAGE?!
MEANWHILE, the Town of Marion, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, JUST OPENED its NEW 14,400 square foot D.P.W. facility at a cost of only $5.2 Million–it came in UNDER BUDGET– or $361 per square foot.
SEE https://news.jgpr.net/2026/02/17/town-of-marion-unveils-new-dpw-operations-building-with-ribbon-cutting-and-tours/ SCROLL DOWN TO SEE ALL THE PHOTOS
NOTE THAT THE TOWN OF MARION DID NOT USE WESTON & SAMPSON ENGINEERS OR VERTEX. IT USED SALTONSTALL ARCHITECTS, AND A MR. CORMIER AS PROJECT MANAGER.
OBVIOUSLY ONLY STUPID, BENT STERLING TOWN GOVERNMENT ASSHOLES PREFER SPENDING $912 PER SQUARE FOOT INSTEAD OF $361 PER SQUARE FOOT FOR A D.P.W. FACILITY.
MAKES YOU WONDER WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON HERE IN THE SHADOWS, DOESN’T IT???
Stay tuned.
J.G.
STERLING, MASSACHUSETTS, OVERWATCH