The so-called ‘vaccines’ aren’t preventing ‘breakthrough’ infections and transmissions because they aren’t vaccines at all. They are messenger RNA experimental therapeutics targeting a single Wuhan Flu protein, thereby actually spurring the coronavirus ‘variants’/mutations. BUT, the fake ‘vaccines’ are generating huge profits for Big Pharma. You can bet Big Pharma is promoting and lobbying for Indefinite Wuhan Flu Panic Porn.
The Sterling Select Board, now acting as the Sterling Earth Removal Board under Sterling’s Developer-Promoted, Crony-Crafted new Earth Removal By-Law, has scheduled a 15 September 2021 Public Hearing on Simpson’s/Sterling Real Estate Development, Inc.’s Application for an Earth Removal Permit to take 18,000 cubic yards of sand or sand and gravel from 68 Heywood Road. SEEhttps://www.sterling-ma.gov/calendar
By its terms, Article 48 eliminated the former, highly questionable, Sterling Protective (Zoning) By-Law “Variance” provision, Section 6.2.2.2.a.4, that had allowed the Sterling Zoning Board of Appeals to grant ‘earth removal’ ‘use’ “Variances” in areas of the Town Zoned Rural Residential & Farming (RR) and Neighborhood Residential (NR). Article 48 substituted the term “Quarrying or Mining” for the former term “Earth Removal” and now PROHIBITS in areas zoned RR and NR “Quarrying or Mining,” meaning “earth removal for the purpose of extracting soil, loam, sand, gravel, clay, rocks, minerals, or other earth material, including establishments engaged in operating sand and gravel pits and in washing, screening, or preparing sand and gravel for construction or industrial uses, but excluding grading of a lot in preparation for the construction of a structure…for which a building permit…has [already] been issued by the town.”
“Quarrying or Mining” is now permitted ONLY in those areas of Town zoned “Light Industrial (LI).”
SIXTY-EIGHT (68) HEYWOOD ROAD IS ZONED RR– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/file/file/part15.pdf –SO THE SELECT BOARD CANNOT, LEGALLY, EVEN ENTERTAIN SIMPSON’S EARTH REMOVAL PERMIT APPLICATION. Simpson was not conducting any earth extraction operations at 68 Heywood Road when Article 48 passed–the Sterling Zoning Board of Appeals having shut his previous extraction operations there down because of abuses–so Simpson cannot claim ‘grandfathering’ either.
CONCLUSION: Sterling’s 2021 Annual Town Meeting voters finally bit Sterling’s biggest SNAKE in the ass. YEAH!!!
Sources report that the Sterling D.P.W. Board wants to limit Sterling families to one (1) trash barrel pick-up per week and impose a money penalty for anything in excess of that one (1) barrel. Of course, the D.P.W. Board lacks transparency–it hasn’t posted on the Town website any Meeting Minutes since those dated April 13, 2021.
The D.P.W. Board’s August 31, 2021 Agenda, interestingly, lists as separate items “Food Waste Collection…Handouts…On-going Discussion” and, further down, “Refuse/Recycling Contract/Totters…Awaiting contract.” https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/events/2021_08_31_dpw_agenda.pdf It appears that “Totters” is a misspelling and that the intent is to limit each family to one (1) Toters-brand trash barrel– https://www.toter.com/products/homeowners –similar to what the City of Leominster crammed down on its taxpayers/ratepayers.
We all own our own trash barrels already. Does the D.P.W. Board really think it can cram down a one-size-fits-all Toters trash barrel that we, the taxpayers/ratepayers, will have to pay for one way or another? Well, if so they are arrogant, out of touch, and have another thing coming. We can’t discern their recorded intentions because they have withheld from the public their Meeting Minutes for the past four and one-half months.
Of course, the “Food Waste Collection” bit raises another question because the D.P.W. Board’s July 13, 2021 Agenda refers to “Report on Compost Facility.” https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/agendas/dpw_agenda_7.13.21.pdf We don’t know who authored the report or what it said because, again, those Meeting Minutes have been withheld from the public. WE DO KNOW THAT D.P.W. BOARD MEMBER BLAINE BERSHAD BELONGS TO A LOCAL GREENIE GROUP CALLED “KEEPING STERLING” WHOSE MEMBER LIST HAS NOT BEEN DIVULGED TO THE PUBLIC. “KEEPING STERLING” WANTS LOCAL FAMILIES AND BUSINESSES TO BRING THEIR FOOD WASTE TO A COMPOSTING SITE HERE IN STERLING. THAT’S “BRING,” FOLKS, INDICATING THAT THEY DON’T WANT FOOD WASTE COLLECTED BY THE TOWN TRASH HAULER. THAT FITS–GREENIES ARE AUTHORITARIANS BYNATURE.https://www.telegram.com/story/news/local/the-item/2021/02/19/composting-proposal-sterling-could-reduce-waste-bring-revenue/6792068002/
If the Sterling D.P.W. Board posted its Meeting Minutes in a timely manner we might be able to determine just to what extent Blaine Bershad is in a conflict of interest on these matters.
Attend, or watch via Zoom, the August 31, 2021 Sterling D.P.W. Board Meeting, and those upcoming. These people require monitoring.
Anyone with half-a-brain–and that excludes the aforementioned FEARMONGERING DUMBASSES, obviously–knows that it is not the infection rate, which is miniscule, that counts, but the hospitalization and death rates, which are even more miniscule, as it turns out, that count. The BOH Panic Porn hustlers don’t want you to know the key stats about which, apparently, they remain ignorant anyway. SO here are a few. Of recent Massachusetts Wuhan Flu so-called ‘breakthrough cases’–cases affecting those having the OH-SO-EFFECTIVE FAKE ‘VACCINES’ THAT ARE JUST EXPERIMENTAL THERAPEUTICS ALREADY SPURRING FAKE BOOSTER SHOTS PROFITING BIG PHARMA–that involved deaths, 73% OF THE DECEASED HAD UNDERLYING MEDICAL CONDITIONS AND THEIR AVERAGE AGE AT DEATH WAS 82.5 YEARS! SEE https://whdh.com/news/dph-73-percent-of-covid-19-breakthrough-deaths-in-mass-had-underlying-conditions-average-age-82-5/THOSE DECEASED, ON AVERAGE, LIVED LONGER THAN THE U.S. LIFE EXPECTANCY OF 78.7 YEARS!https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/life-expectancy.htm
Here is the so-called official Massachusetts Covid stats ‘Dashboard’– https://www.mass.gov/info-details/covid-19-response-reportingKEEP IN MIND THAT MASSACHUSETTS’ POPULATION IS APPROXIMATELY 7 MILLION. THESE STATS SHOW THAT THE WUHAN FLU HOSPITALIZATION AND DEATH RATES ARE ABSOLUTELY MINIMAL. AS HAS BEEN THE CASE ALL ALONG, THOSE INVOLVE MOSTLY THE ELDERLY WITH CO-MORBIDITIES.
The 2021 Sterling Fair should have proceeded. Any elderly with co-morbidities could simply have chosen not to attend. The aforementioned DUMBASSES, however, are incapable of figuring that out.
UPDATE, 4 SEPTEMBER 2021–MORE KEY STATS ON THE WUHAN FLU
UPDATE, 8 SEPTEMBER 2021–NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH 900 PAGE FOIA RESPONSE DEMONSTRATES THAT OUTRIGHT SOCIOPATH FAUCI-THE LYING GNOME HAS THE BLOOD OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF U.S. CITIZENS ON HIS HANDS
Fauci-The Lying-Gnome lied to Congress. He DID fund Wuhan Institute of Virology coronavirus gain-of-function research that led directly to the current pandemic (that is now burning out due to herd immunity). This guy should be hanged by his miniature gonads.
In my dictionary, next to the definition of “dick around”– https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dick%20around –are exemplar photographs of Sterling’s incompetent, failed so-called ‘Town Planner,’ the cipher, poseur, and favored Select Board ‘Gofer’ Domenica Tatasciore; the dawdling, doddering, unfocused, aimless, unwieldy, lackadaisical so-called ‘Master Plan Committee;’ and the three navel-gazing, self-important, bumps-on-a-log who oversee all of the aforesaid, Sterling’s Select Board. None of the foregoing would recognize the importance of brevity, succinctness, relevance, focus, goal-orientation, timeliness, deadlines, cost-effectiveness, fiscal restraint, or mission accomplishment if all those concepts reared up simultaneously and bit ’em all on their respective asses.
THE STERLING ‘MASTER PLAN COMMITTEE’ AND “BARRETT PLANNING GROUP LLC”–DICKING AROUND SINCE JUNE 2018 AT STERLING TAXPAYER EXPENSE
Sterling taxpayers have been paying the bills for the straphangers called “Barrett Planning Group LLC” since June 2018, as shown by the first so-called ‘Master Plan Committee’ ‘Agenda’ displayed on the Town’s website– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/agendas/master_plan_mtg_6.21.18.pdf In other words, “Barrett Planning Group LLC,” hired by the Sterling Select Board, have been dicking around at our expense for 38 months with NOTHING of value produced for the Town’s property-owning taxpayers. MEANWHILE, the Town of Sturbridge, right here in Worcester County, completed its new Master Plan in a mere fifteen months. The Town of Fairhaven’s Master Plan was completed in a year! That’s called competence, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness, folks, traits discouraged by the outright dopes constituting Sterling’s Select Board. DO THE STRAPHANGERS AT “BARRETT PLANNING GROUP LLC” HAVE ANY INCENTIVE TO SPEED UP MASTER PLAN PRODUCTION??? ANSWER: OF COURSE NOT, THE MORE THIS PROCESS DRAGS ON THE LONGER THEY CAN MOOCH OFF STERLING TAXPAYERS.
MAY 2019, NO SURPRISE: BLOVIATING BULLSH*T FROM ‘OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL BULLSH*T,’ ILLEGITIMATE HOLDOVER SELECT BOARD CHAIR MAUREEN CRANSON
The Sterling Planning Board is responsible for producing new Town Master Plans but the self-important, preening poseurs intending to create a massive, verbose, unreadable new ‘Master Plan’ tome as a printed monument to themselves don’t care about that. In May 2019, illegitimate holdover Select Board Chair Maureen Cranson, in one of her usual factually-unsupported bloviating BULLSH*T pronouncements, said this about the Master Plan process: “It was evident the citizens are energized. As selectmen, I [sic] would like to move this forward… While it is in the purview of the Planning Board, I don’t want to lose energy. We owe it to the people who have worked a year or a year and a half to move forward.” https://www.telegram.com/news/20190603/selectmen-move-forward-master-plan-process That was her self-promoting bogus rationale for appointing NINE sub-committee chairs to the ‘Master Plan Committee,’ thereby making it totally unwieldy. “Energy” and “mov[ing] forward”??? WHAT A CROCK OF UNADULTERATED EXORBITANTLY EXPENSIVE SH*T! The Planning Board would have completed a workable new Master Plan by now. Thirty-eight (38) months down the road and these alternative assorted geniuses have produced SQUAT.
THE MANNEQUINS ON THE SO-CALLED ‘MASTER PLAN COMMITTEE’ ARE STILL PUTTING OUT “SURVEYS” AND DISCUSSING COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Any and all relevant questions to be included in ‘Master Plan’ citizen surveys should have been framed at the outset, three years ago. BUT, the so-called ‘Master Plan Committee’ is now framing a THIRD citizen survey and still discussing “Committee Assignments”– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/agendas/2021_08_26_mpc_agenda.pdf Are you friggin’ kidding us??? Are you telling us that “Barrett Planning Group LLC,” hired by the Select Board, has done none of this previously and has no model “surveys” already in their hopper??? The Select Board is SQUARELY responsible for this ongoing, costly circus.
DOMENICA TATASCIORE, FAKE TOWN PLANNER AND THE SELECT BOARD’S $210,000 -AND-COUNTING ‘GOFER’
In October 2018 the Select Board hired Domenica Tatasciore as purported ‘Town Planner’ following the May 2018 Annual Town Meeting vote authorizing the hiring of a Town Planner for the sole, expressed purpose of producing a new Town Master Plan. Her starting salary was $74,000+, her current salary is $79,000+. In thirty-four (34) months she has not produced a new Master Plan. As an abject failure she has been paid more than $210,000 in Sterling taxpayer money, this in addition to the Sterling taxpayer money still being wasted on the four-flushing gravy-train feeders at “Barrett Planning Group LLC.” Meanwhile, the Select Board has used Tatasciore as their ‘Gofer’ for multiple, relatively insignificant tasks–WITHOUT TOWN MEETING AUTHORITY (Ultra Vires)–and even found a manufactured- administrative-bloat-bogus-excuse to pay her even MORE, AGAIN WITHOUT TOWN MEETING APPROVAL. SEE this, scroll down– https://www.telegram.com/story/news/local/the-item/2021/02/19/composting-proposal-sterling-could-reduce-waste-bring-revenue/6792068002/ All of this is, of course, is an absolute outrage but, as you now know, the Select Board, collectively, possesses no standards, no ethics, and, therefore, no shame. WHAT IS A SHAME IS THAT NEITHER KILCOYNE, THE BENT BUFFOON, NOR CRANSON, ‘OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL BULLSH*T,’ HAD OPPONENTS TO THEIR RECENT RE-ELECTIONS. HERE’S TO HOPING FOR SOME REAL, VIABLE ELECTORAL CONTESTS IN TOWN ELECTION CYCLES TO COME.
Hmmmm, I wonder if said Agent has finally stopped submitting to the Town time sheets indicating that he put in many, many 11-hour days, consistently [wink, wink], as BOH Agent. Would the Town Treasurer and the Town Administrator, his official time sheet reviewing officials, care to comment about that???
Hmmmm, how many more BOH “Executive Sessions” will feature, apparently, said BOH Agent, before the BOH replaces him???
The Sterling Select Board is desperate to hose YOU, Sterling property owners, by raising permitting fees for construction and home improvement projects in order to retain and pay, indefinitely, their favored ‘Gofer,’ failed Town Planner/Sterling-taxpayer-funded-public-mammary-gland-feeder, Domenica Tatasciore, as the new, completely unnecessary, card-playing, internet-surfing “Director of Land Use & Permitting.” This in our Town of only 7800 souls.
SO what did the Bent Buffoon a/k/a Sterling Select Board member John Kilcoyne, during the 4 August 2021 Select Board Meeting, at minute 32, streamed here– https://townhallstreams.com/stream.php?location_id=80&id=39287 — have to say about that??? WELL, he said that he would talk to local builders AND to the very Town of Sterling payroll patriots who would be mooching off such increased permitting fees, none other than Domenica Tatasciore herself and Patty Page, Administrator for the ZBA and Planning Board, to find out what THEY think about hosing you. To promote administrative bloat and line their pockets Tatasciore and Page would hose you in a nanosecond. As for local builders, who, of course, will pass on any increased permitting fees to YOU, the property owners who hire them, they are the very cronies whose asses Kilcoyne kisses in return for political support. So how’s all that for obtaining objective, detached input in order to make a public policy decision??? Folks, you just can’t make this sh*t up.
WHEN YOU, AS STERLING PROPERTY OWNERS, DON’T GET A CALL ABOUT BEING HOSED BY INCREASED PERMITTING FEES, YOU’LL KNOW THAT IT WAS KILCOYNE ON THE OTHER END OF THE LINE.
As we know, David “Nowhere Man” Favreau, the Sterling Board of Health’s ‘full-time’ agent [wink, wink], has operated Favreau Septic Services, 111 Chace Hill Road, Sterling, for many years– https://www.favreausepticservices.com/
Turns out he is now running F & G Construction Company, Inc., too, using the same address. Just search the Secretary of the Commonwealth’s Corporations Database by plugging in that company name– https://www.sec.state.ma.us/cor/coridx.htm
As you can see, failed septic systems aren’t the only foul-smelling occurrences in Sterling.
Speaking of foul smells, when it comes to this matter the Sterling Select Board has been ‘Missing-In-Action.’ That’s because, as we know, “The Fish Rots FromThe Head Down.”
J.E. Simpson Excavating, Inc. owns assessed parcel 92-108, listed as 9 Redstone Hill Road, on the westerly side of James Patten Drive, in Sterling. You can locate that parcel using Sterling GIS– https://www.axisgis.com/SterlingMA/ The Sterling GIS map does not show on that parcel the Commonwealth of Massachusetts-protected headwaters tributary stream to Wekepeke Brook, South Branch, a trout stream/Commonwealth of Massachusetts-protected “coldwater fishery,” but the MassDEP “Wetland and Wetland Change Areas Map” does– http://maps.massgis.state.ma.us/images/dep/omv/wetviewer.htm It takes some time to zoom in and find it but you can. Use Wachusett Reservoir as a beginning target for your zoom-in searching. That map, however, is incomplete. The headwaters tributary stream through Simpson’s parcel actually flows out of the wetland labeled “WS1,” on parcel 36, located on the northerly side of Ashton Lane. That headwaters tributary stream network begins at a wetland on Kendall Hill, southerly of Kendall Hill Road, near the “Malvern Hill” development.
Here are links to information about Massachusetts-protected “coldwater fisheries,” including their tributary streams:
On 9 July 2021 I mailed out the following Public Records Request, reproduced in pertinent part:
Board of Health Municipal Building 1 Park Street Sterling, MA 01564
and
Kathleen Farrell, Town Clerk Municipal Building 1 Park Street Sterling, MA 01564
RE: Public Records Request in Accordance With Mass.Gen.Laws Ch. 66, Sec.10
Ladies and Gentlemen,
In accordance with Mass.Gen.Laws Ch. 66, Sec.10, request is hereby made for copies of any and all completed Soil Percolation Test Form(s) 12, for each spot/location on Sterling Assessors' Parcel 92-108, 9 Redstone Hill Road, westerly of James Patten Drive, now assessed to J.E. Simpson Excavating, Inc., that soil percolation tests were performed at any and all times whatsoever, and for copies of any and all Soil Suitability Assessment for On-Site Sewage Disposal Form(s) 11, concerning that Parcel 92-108, completed at any and all times whatsoever. Please advise me of the costs for producing and mailing to me those copies.
Failure to respond to this request in a timely manner may result in a Superior Court enforcement action.
NOTE: A “coldwater fishery” headwaters tributary stream protected by 321 CMR 5.00 et seq. flows through that Parcel 92-108 and eventually joins another headwaters tributary stream on the easterly side of Clinton Road (Route 62) to form the Wekepeke Brook, South Branch, a “coldwater fishery,” near the Hillside Cemetery property. The protected headwaters tributary stream that flows through Parcel 92-108 begins at a wetland on Kendall Hill southerly of Kendall Hill Road, flows under Kendall Hill Road northerly by Abbey Lane, thence northerly across Clearview Farm and under Maple Street to a swamp/wetland on the westerly side of Ashton Lane, thence northerly under Ashton Lane to a wetland on Parcel 36, thence through Parcel 35 to said Parcel 92-108, thence under Redstone Hill Road downhill to join the other tributary stream referred to on the easterly side of Clinton Road. The Wekepeke Brook, South Branch, then flows westerly under Clinton Road, then northerly by Route 12. There are native brook trout in it…
I thank you for your anticipated cooperation.
Sincerely,
James F. Gettens, Esq.
cc:
Adam Kautza, Coldwater Fishery Project Leader, Mass.Wildlife Marielle Stone, Deputy Regional Director, Mass.DEP Town of Sterling Conservation Commission Town of Sterling Building Commissioner
BOARD OF HEALTH RESPONSE
Under cover letter dated 19 July 2021 the Sterling Board of Health produced hand-printed notes on three sheets indicating that on December 8, 2020 soil percolation tests were attempted on Simpson’s parcel but the effort was “cancelled, soil too wet/moist.” Instead, “deeps” were done in what was described as “sandy loam” and “loamy sand.” On “lot 1” “weeping” occurred at 50, 60, and 80 inch depth levels at various spots chosen for “deeps” testing. On “lot 2” “standing water” was found at 42, 46, 48, and 70 inch depth levels at the various spots chosen for “deeps” testing. The Board of Health did not produce any completed Forms 11 or 12 in response to my request.
Simpson submitted another Application to “Perform Soil Testing Observations” on 22 July 2021. Therefore, I will submit yet another Public Records Request for the pertinent documents.
WHERE ON THE PARCEL IS THAT “SANDY LOAM” AND “LOAMY SAND”???
The Sterling Geological Features Map shows that westerly and uphill from the tributary stream referred to is “Abundant Outcrop and Shallow Bedrock”– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/file/file/part16.pdf If you want to see how rocky that Kendall Hill spur is just go to Chocksett Burial Ground and examine the hillside above it. That hillside was selectively cut/logged in the past year or so. SO, where on that Simpson parcel is the “sandy loam” and “loamy sand” referred to in the hand-printed notes produced by the Sterling Board of Health??? Probably in or near the “Wetlands Protection” “buffer zone” that is supposed to protect from disturbance the tributary stream referred to.
SOME STERLING JOKES
Old joke: “The Simpsons never bought a wetland that didn’t perc.”
New joke: “The Simpsons never bought ledge rock that didn’t perc.”
Established joke: “Sterling has the best Town Government money can buy.”
WATCHING THE STERLING CONSERVATION COMMISSION ON THIS IMPENDING DEVELOPMENT
Stay tuned! Let’s observe to what extent our intrepid Sterling Conservation Commission members go to protect the Wekepeke Brook, South Branch, tributary stream on Simpson’s parcel. The only access to that parcel from James Patten Drive is over and across that tributary streambed. In addition, let’s see if the purported trout-lovers running the Sterling Land Trust speak up about protecting that headwaters tributary stream.
J.G.
P.S. Apologies for the involuntary font changes that I was unable to correct.
The Sterling Select Board, with self-promoting ‘Our Lady of Perpetual Bullsh*t’ Maureen Cranson violating historical norms and tradition, aided and abetted by Bent Buffoon John Kilcoyne, hanging onto the Chair through Fiscal Year 2022 rather than turning it over, graciously, to Arden Sonnenberg, has published its 21 July 2021 ‘Working Session’ Agenda– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/agendas/2021_7_28_work_session_agenda.pdf
These hacks aren’t reviewing all Permitting Fees in order to lower them for the benefit of Town residents, that’s for sure. Instead, it is obvious that they plan to raise them so that they can stash and fund their favored ‘Gofer,’ Sterling-Taxpayer-Funded-Public-Mammary-Gland-Feeder/Fake ‘Town Planner’ Domenica Tatasciore–who has not produced a new Town Master Plan despite flaunting her deceptive title for 33 months–as brand new “Land Use & Permitting Division” director. We are now funding this useless appendage to the tune of $79,000+ per year, plus benefits. Yeah, in our Town of 7800 souls we really, really need a new “Land Use & Permitting Division” about as much as we all need another bodily orifice, right Select Board?
If the Select Board hacks get their way their favorite parasite will be paid more than $79,000/year plus benefits, rest assured.
For our Fake-Fiefdom-Building Select Board hacks, nothing succeeds like failure. Stay tuned, and be prepared to separate out, and vote down, this coming Town Budget category at next year’s Annual Town Meeting.
UPDATE: The posted “Working Session” Agenda date is 21 July, but the “Town Calendar” has it on 28 July– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/calendar You can tell by the Agenda language that the “Working Session” results are pre-determined. Cranson and Kilcoyne are such predictably ludicrous frauds!Hmmm, how do they pre-determine meeting results without violating the “Open Meeting Law”???!!!
STERLING, MASSACHUSETTS, OVERWATCH 