PROTECT THE WEKEPEKE BROOK HEADWATERS AND ITS NATIVE BROOK TROUT POPULATION–OPPOSE THE STERLING D.P.W.’S INCIPIENT PLAN TO LOCATE A TOWN WELL IN THE WEKEPEKE RESERVATION OWNED BY THE TOWN OF CLINTON

According to the latest Sterling D.P.W. Board Agenda– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/agendas/agenda_dpw_2-22-2022.docx –it is now planning to put a Town Well in the Wekepeke Brook headwaters area, known as the ‘Wekepeke Reservation,’ owned by the Town of Clinton as water resource. This would endanger the Wekepeke Brook’s native brook trout population. The 2002 Town of Sterling Open Space and Recreation Plan, that I can no longer locate on-line, had a section on the Wekepeke Brook’s sensitivity to drought and said that in times of drought groundwater seeping and feeding into Wekepeke Brook helps to keep its waters cold enough to sustain its native brook trout population. Pumping down the groundwater level in the Wekepeke Brook’s headwaters area would constitute a grave threat to those brook trout. Wekepeke Brook is a Commonwealth of Massachusetts-protected ‘Coldwater Fishery.’ SEE https://www.mass.gov/regulations/321-CMR-500-coldwater-fish-resources

Back in 2007-2008 the Sterling Select Board was caught red-faced at having negotiated secretly with Nestle Waters North America and the Town of Clinton Select Board about permitting Nestle Waters to pump down the Wekepeke Brook headwaters-area groundwater for profit. The plan was illegal. The applicable late-1800s state legislation only allowed the Town of Clinton to take by eminent domain and/or by purchase Wekepeke headwaters watershed land to impound and use its surface water only, not groundwater, for ITS MUNICIPAL PURPOSES. Moreover, Nestle’s proposal violated Sterling’s Zoning By-Laws. The Sterling Select Board was forced to back down– https://www.telegram.com/story/news/local/north/2008/04/04/sterling-officials-oppose-nestl-pumping/52460116007/

A local group is intent upon protecting the Wekepeke– https://wekepeke.org/

Apparently the Sterling D.P.W. Board forgot about the 2007-2008 Wekepeke Fight. If wants another one now it will get more than it bargained for.

A Sterling Town Well further downstream in the Wekepeke Aquifer area–fed by additional tributary streams–would be much less environmentally sensitive than a Town Well in this headwaters area, but of course the Sterling Zoning Board of Appeals a/k/a The Developers’ Doormat Vice-Chair, Joseph Curtin, spearheaded 2021 Annual Town Meeting Warrant Article 46– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/uploads/2021_atm_final_warrant_june_7_2021_003_0.pdf — to reduce in size the North Sterling Wekepeke Aquifer Wellhead Protection Zone II in order to bring in more Light Industrial development, thereby rolling back the protected zone that intelligent and forward-looking Sterling voters had approved at a previous Sterling Annual Town Meeting many years before. If you have a chance thank Joe for his brilliance and foresight.

J.G.

THE STERLING SELECT BOARD, BUILDING UPON ITS SUCCESS IN PAINTING THE WORLD’S SHORTEST, MOST POINTLESS, AND MOST IDIOTIC ‘BIKE LANE’–THE ONE ON WAUSHACUM AVENUE–MOVES TO APPROVE WESTON & SAMPSON’S TRULY INSPIRED MAIN STREET PLANNING PROPOSAL

Waushacum Avenue in downtown Sterling isn’t much of an ‘avenue.’ It runs a few hundred yards from Main Street to its intersection with Bird Street. From there Newell Hill Road–really the Waushacum Avenue extension–goes up Newell Hill.

YET Waushacum Avenue, for those of you who never noticed it, has a relatively new, very impressive yellow-painted ‘bike lane’ that runs 150 yards or so to…nowhere. That’s right, that ‘bike lane’ doesn’t even extend to Bird Street. It ends at the School Street intersection! It’s the ONLY designated ‘bike lane’ on any street in downtown Sterling. It’s truly AWESOME! If you bike back and forth on that ‘bike lane’ once you get about 300 yards of pedaling. If you do it six (6) times you get about one mile of pedaling. I don’t know about y’all, but I’m seriously considering buying a bicycle so I can get in some truly ‘safe’ exercise within the yellow-painted confines of that ‘bike lane.’ No more trail running or Ju Jitsu training or stuff like that for me, NO SIRREE! I want to be just as safe as the mindless Branch Covidian morons who drive around alone in their cars all masked-up. Hey, they don’t call this Commie Commonwealth ‘Maskachusetts’ for nothing, after all.

Building upon its overwhelming Waushacum Avenue ‘bike lane’ success, the Select Board is now up for some truly inspired ‘Main Street Planning.’ They will be spending YOUR tax dollars to approve the Weston & Sampson ‘Main Street Planning’ ‘proposal’– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/agendas/2022_2_16_agenda.pdf

Here is Weston & Sampson’s website– https://www.westonandsampson.com/
If you’re at all like me, I bet you can’t wait to see the ‘proposal’ YOU paid for. Maybe there’s another ‘bike lane’ in store for us, or a new sandbox on the Sterling Green in which walked dogs may take a dump without feeling guilty about killing the grass. You know how dogs get that guilty look? Who knows, but you can count on it being really AWESOME!

J.G.

AS FACTS AND TRUTH PREVAIL AND THE BRANCH COVIDIANS’ HYSTERIA/POPULATION CONTROL CAMPAIGN UNRAVELS, IT IS WELL TO REMEMBER THAT “KILLING FREEDOM ONLY TOOK ONE LITTLE PR*CK”

As people around the globe come to understand that masking, ‘social distancing,’ business closures, lockdowns, and the fake mRNA ‘vaccines’ were all useless in halting spread of the Wuhan Flu, the so-called ‘Omicron Variant’ having made it endemic like seasonal flu, and that off-patent medicines that were truly effective in treating Wuhan Flu infections were subverted for taxpayer-funded profits by Big Pharma and their corrupt regulatory agency allies such as HHS/FDA, NIH, and CDC, it is well to remember that here in the United States, supposedly ‘land of the free and home of the brave,’ killing freedom effectively only took one little pr*ck–

Of course, THAT little pr*ck, Fauci-The-Lying-Gnome, was replicated by town, city, county, state, and federal officials all around, and by their counterparts overseas.

Here in Sterling notable examples include the Board of Health agent, the Board of Health, and the Select Board.

Now, in the fight for freedom, we are all being shown up by polite and usually-compliant Canadians–

This is both embarrassing and humbling, but it is fun to see boy Canadian Prime Minister Justin Castreau emasculated by ordinary, hard-working, Canadian taxpayers.

UPDATE, 11 February 2022: Please Donate to the Canadian Truckers’ Freedom Convoy 2022, Here– https://www.givesendgo.com/FreedomConvoy2022

By the way, have you seen Fauci-The-Lying-Gnome lately???

J.G.

LIARS WASTING MORE OF YOUR TAX DOLLARS. CRANSON AND KILCOYNE GO BACK ON THEIR 2018 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING PLEDGE

During the 2018 Sterling Annual Town Meeting, in order to sell Article 27–

https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/uploads/atm_warrant_with_budget_4-11-18a.pdf —

to the voters present, Select Board members Cranson and Kilcoyne promised that the new ‘Town Planner’ position would terminate once the new Town of Sterling Master Plan was completed. Article 27 then passed. A few months later they hired Domenica Tatasciore to fill that spot and used her as their all-purpose ‘Gofer.’ By the time she bailed out in autumn 2021–a blessed relief to Sterling taxpayers– she had been paid approximately $225,000 over three years, not counting benefits, and the new Master Plan was not yet complete. Here in Massachusetts Town Master Plans are completed by other towns in nine (9) to twenty-four (24) months. Domenica Tatasciore was, therefore, a Cranson and Kilcoyne-approved grifter at Sterling taxpayer expense.

For all practical purposes the new Sterling Master Plan is now complete, yet Cranson and Kilcoyne want to hire yet ANOTHER ‘Gofer’/Fake ‘Town Planner’– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/agendas/2022_2_2_agenda.pdf

They enjoy wasting your tax dollars in order to expand their Municipal Building fiefdom of rump swabs.

Cranson and Kilcoyne head up a bent cabal of local-real estate-developer-A$$-Kissing-Town board members/officials. Local developers are doing the ‘Town Planning’ now. Developer-promoted and crony-crafted 2021 Sterling Annual Town Meeting Warrant Articles 46, 47, and 48 are proof of that.

The only thing a new Sterling ‘Town Planner’ will have to do is figure out novel ways to stick his/her thumbs up his/her A$$ inside the Municipal Building each morning.

J.G.

THE ANTI-WHITE RACISTS–“DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND ANTI-RACISM” VIRTUE-SIGNALING FETISHIST BUFFOONS ABOUND ON THE WACHUSETT REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT COMMITTEE

THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF TAXPAYERS FUNDING THE OBSCENE, DISHONEST, WASTEFUL, UNIONIZED-EMPLOYEE-PROTECTION RACKET KNOWN AS THE WACHUSETT REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, AND THEIR OFFSPRING STUDENTS, ARE WHITE. SO, ALL OF YOU WHITE WRSD TAXPAYERS–DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE RACISTS, INEQUITABLE, AND ANTI-INCLUSIVE??? WELL, YOU MUST BE BECAUSE A WRSD VIRTUE-SIGNALING COTTAGE INDUSTRY FRONTED BY THE WRSD “DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND ANTI-RACISM SUB-COMMITTEE” IS NOW IN PLACE AND OCCUPIED BY DISTRICT FETISHIST BUFFOONS. THESE JACKASSES ARE PARODIES OF THEMSELVES.

CHECK THIS OUT!— https://www.wrsd.net/school_committee/school_committee_members

While White WRSD taxpayers have been hosed by WRSD budget increases totaling 25% just since FY 2016, WRSD student enrollment has plummeted from 2012 to present. Yeah, so how do you like THAT return on your hard-earned ‘investments’? SEE—

YEARS OF FALLING STUDENT ENROLLMENT NUMBERS BUT SHARPLY RISING ANNUAL BUDGETS–THE WACHUSETT REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT RACKET

This anti-White WRSD Committee racism should, it is to be hoped, result in further, precipitous student enrollment drops.

You’ve all been suckered by the WRSD for years. THIS YEAR, across the Wachusett Regional School District, Town Meeting voters/taxpayers should send the WRSD Committee a BIG “Foxtrot Yankee” message and vote down the entire FY 2023 WRSD budget request.

J.G.

STERLING SELECT BOARD-KELLIE HEBERT SH*TSHOW SAGA CONTINUES. SELECT BOARD ‘EXECUTIVE SESSION’ ON FOR 25 JANUARY 2022

The Sterling Select Board has scheduled an ‘Executive Session’ for 25 January 2022 to “discuss strategy with respect to litigation–Town vs Hebert.” SEE https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/agendas/2022_1_25_agenda_.pdf

The Select Board hired Kellie Hebert to be Town Administrator. She lasted about ten (10) months. She was jettisoned under murky circumstances after word leaked out that she had retained an answering service for the Recreation Department at a whopping $40/hour AND had hired a way-out-of-Town-buddy-‘Consultant,’ rather than a local roofing contractor, to troubleshoot Butterick Building/Municipal Building roof leak(s). In taking those actions we don’t know if Ms. Hebert violated Massachusetts municipal procurement and contracting legal requirements. SEE https://www.mass.gov/files/documents/2017/10/19/30bmanual.pdf

“Litigation,” huh? Who is suing whom? The Select Board hasn’t told us. SURPRISED? Yeah, the Select Board is all about honesty and transparency… and if you believe that I’ll sell you the Muddy Pond Road bridge. Don’t be surprised if Kellie Hebert is suing for breach of contract/wrongful termination. Any way you slice it, this is yet another Select Board ‘Charlie Foxtrot.’

UPDATE, 27 January 2022: Ya, ya, yet more Select Board ‘honesty and transparency’–

Click to access 2022_2_1_agenda_.pdf

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK, AGAIN!

J.G.

KAREN PACKARD, REALTOR, CONTINUES TO APPEAR BEFORE THE STERLING PLANNING BOARD PRO-DEVELOPMENT HACKS TO DISCUSS THE EXISTING ROUTE 140 “PERFORMANCE ZONE 1.” BEWARE OF ANOTHER MOVE TO RE-ZONE THAT AREA TO “COMMERCIAL”

Karen Packard, Realtor, with new offices on Route 140 in Sterling’s existing “Performance Zone 1”–her husband operates “Sterling Greenery” across the road–appeared before the Sterling Planning Board pro-development hacks–two of its members, Corrinne and Pruneau, are developers!– in December 2021 to discuss that “Performance Zone.” She will appear before them on 27 January 2022 to discuss that “Performance Zone” again–
https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/agendas/pb_agenda_-_january_27_2022.pdf

The Planning Board has not yet posted on the Town’s website its December 2021 Meeting Minutes. Those Minutes will be approved for posting during the 27 January Meeting, presumably.

You can bet that this constitutes yet another effort to re-zone that area from “Performance Zone 1,” in red– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/file/file/part15.pdf –to “Commercial.” The Planning Board tried to do that last year by means of 2021 Annual Town Meeting Warrant Article 39, also recommended by the Select Board dopes– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/uploads/2021_atm_final_warrant_june_7_2021_003_0.pdf — but the voters, wisely, shot it down. Re-zoning that area to “Commercial” would be harmful to the homeowners along Route 140 nearby.

REMEMBER, last year Joe Curtin, “The Brilliant,” Vice-Chair of the Sterling Zoning Board of Appeals a/k/a The Developers’ Doormat, prevailed upon the the pro-development hacks on the Planning Board to sponsor 2021 Annual Town Meeting Warrant Article 46– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/uploads/2021_atm_final_warrant_june_7_2021_003_0.pdf — reducing in size the Wekepeke Aquifer Wellhead Protection Zone, in order to promote Light Industrial development over the Wekepeke Aquifer. The Select Board dopes recommended passage. It passed. NOW the Sterling D.P.W. plans to sink a much-needed Town Well off Crowley Road in the Wekepeke Aquifer. Yeah, so how’d that move work out for Sterling’s Townspeople???

Watch these self-interested clowns closely.

J.G.

ENGLAND ACKNOWLEDGES WUHAN FLU FACTS/TRUTH, ELIMINATES INEFFECTIVE ‘VAX’ AND MASK MANDATES. MEANWHILE, TOWN OF STERLING EMPLOYEES AND OFFICIALS HIDE BEHIND THEIR VIRTUE-SIGNALING MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS MASK MANDATE

In case you missed this major news development in the current U.S. regime’s mainstream media propaganda organs, England has recognized that the fraudulent so-called ‘COVID vaccines,’ which were never ‘vaccines’ at all but, rather, experimental mRNA gene therapies, are ineffective to halt the spread of the mild COVID/Wuhan Flu variant known as ‘Omicron.’ ‘Omicron’ is accomplishing what the fake ‘vaccines’ never did–‘herd immunity’ in all affected populations. The Wuhan Flu is now officially ‘endemic’ like ordinary colds and flu. England also recognized what MULTIPLE medical studies on masks have demonstrated–that ordinary masks (unlike fitted N95 respirators) are entirely ineffective at preventing sub-micron sized virus particles from spreading. THEREFORE, England is halting ‘Vax’ and mask mandates effective 27 January 2022– https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/boris-johnson-scraps-covid-mandates-england-will-trust-judgment-british-people/ In making the announcement, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the Government would henceforth “trust the judgment” of the British people. GEE, WHAT A NOVEL CONCEPT IN PURPORTED ‘DEMOCRACIES’ SUCH AS OURS AND THEIRS!

By the way, in case you thought that the ineffective mRNA gene therapies/fake ‘vaccines’ are safe, THINK AGAIN. The U.S. Health and Human Services Department’s own “Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System” (VAERS) shows that the fake ‘vaccines’ have resulted in many thousands of deaths and approximately 1 million adverse reactions, including 155,000 injuries, as of December 2021. SEE https://www.riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/modern-day-censorship/covid-19-updated-vaers-data-of-reported-adverse-events-and-deaths-after-vaccines-in-the-u-s-december-10/ You can do your own deep dive on the HHS VAERS website.

UPDATE, 21 January 2022: Ireland follows England!–

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/ireland-set-rapidly-drop-almost-all-covid-19-restrictions-2022-01-21/

BONUS, 22 January 2022: The Top 10 COVID Villains Of 2021–

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/01/the_top_10_covid_villains_of_2021.html

UPDATE, 25 January 2022: The CDC Finally Admits That Cloth Masks Were Always Political Theater–

https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/17/cdc-finally-admits-cloth-masks-were-always-political-theater/

UPDATE, 27 January 2022: Denmark drops all mandates and restrictions–

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2022/01/27/denmark-covid-classification-n2602405

UPDATE, 28 January 2022: Czech Republic drops [fraudulent] vax mandates–

Czech Prime Minister Ends Health-Mandates

UPDATE, 1 FEBRUARY 2022: Finland Joins The Truth Club Too–

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/02/01/finland-to-scrap-all-coronavirus-restrictions-by-mid-february/

STILL NO SIGNS OF HONEST OR INTELLIGENT LIFE INSIDE CDC, NIH, FDA, HHS, BIG PHARMA.

MEANWHILE, Sterling’s municipal employees and officials, real ‘Profiles in Courage,’ continue to hide behind their ridiculous virtue-signaling ineffective masks and the municipal buildings mask mandate. Yeah, it’s the ScIenCe don’t ya know?! They are a laughingstock.

OH, HAS ANYONE SEEN FAUCI-THE-LYING-GNOME RECENTLY?

J.G.

SELECT BOARD TO HIRE DESIGN ENGINEERING FIRM FOR “DOWNTOWN REVITALIZATION PROJECT” BOONDOGGLE

According to its 19 January 2022 Agenda– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/agendas/2022_1_19_agenda3.pdf — the Sterling Select Board will be hiring either Weston & Sampson– https://www.westonandsampson.com/ — or WorldTech Engineering– https://www.worldtechengineering.com/ –as design engineers for their pet “Downtown Revitalization Project,” whatever that may be. YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK, AGAIN! Considering the lack of parking places downtown, Sterling’s ‘Downtown’ is actually quite vital already, don’t ya think?

Since private property lines much of Main Street in Sterling Center on both sides, there is a limit to what these geniuses can accomplish without taking private property by “eminent domain” to reconfigure whatever it is that they may want to reconfigure. Taking private property by “eminent domain”–also known as “condemnation proceedings”– is expensive, not to mention arbitrary and unfair to the owner(s).

“Revitalizing” Sterling Center really comes down to three words–PARKING AND WALKING. The Town of Sterling owns the Memorial Park behind the Fire Station and more than 13 acres of open, ledgy land behind the Sterling Municipal Building. Let’s see if Sterling’s Townspeople are willing to put a parking lot or parking garage on either one of those parcels. Place your bets now!

In the meantime, watch YOUR tax dollars circle and then disappear down the drain on this “Downtown Revitalization” BOONDOGGLE.

UPDATE, 20 January 2022: Here are the vaunted “Sterling Town Center Design Guidelines”– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/news/20210630_sterling_town_center_design_guidelines_final.pdf

Other than requiring the mitigation of legitimate public health hazards or code violations, Sterling officials can’t require downtown private property owners to spend a dime on cosmetic or structural building changes. I don’t think those geniuses understand that.

J.G.

JOE CURTIN’S BRILLIANCE!!! HE ENGINEERED LAST YEAR’S WEKEPEKE AQUIFER WELLHEAD PROTECTION ZONE SIZE REDUCTION. NOW THE STERLING D.P.W. WANTS A TOWN WELL IN THE WEKEPEKE AQUIFER

Joe Curtin, pro-development hack and Vice Chair of the Sterling Zoning Board of Appeals a/k/a The Developers’ Doormat, engineered 2021 Sterling Annual Town Meeting Warrant Article 46, submitted by the Planning Board dopes and recommended by the Select Board dopes– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/uploads/2021_atm_final_warrant_june_7_2021_003_0.pdf It passed, thereby reducing in size the Wekepeke Aquifer Wellhead Protection Zone in Sterling. Joe Curtin’s position was that since the wellhead(s) in question, just over the line in Leominster, belong to the City of Leominster, Sterling should not burden itself by having such a heretofore expansive wellhead protection zone–approved previously by Sterling voters–in Sterling, thereby paving the way for more industrial development over the Wekepeke Aquifer in areas zoned Light Industrial.

I warned about his move in multiple Blog posts before the 2021 Annual Town Meeting, and spoke against it during the 2021 Annual Town Meeting, to no avail.

NOW, the Sterling D.P.W. wants to sink a Town Well off Crowley Road in the very same Wekepeke Aquifer, and has sought Mass. DEP approval to do so. Open the Sterling D.P.W. Board 11 January 2002 Agenda, and scroll down– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/department-of-public-works/events/111011

WAY TO GO, JOE!!! I’ll be waiting for your 2022 Sterling Annual Town Meeting Warrant Article restoring the Wekepeke Aquifer Wellhead Protection Zone to its 2020 boundaries.

SIDEBAR: During the 2021 Annual Town Meeting Marion Larson, Sterling Land Trust president, spoke in favor of Article 46. Obviously she’s brilliant too.

J.G.