LET’S EXAMINE THE LIES AND FALSEHOODS SET FORTH ON THE STERLING PLANNING BOARD’S ‘MBTA ZONING’ WEBPAGE, SHALL WE?

I’m sure you’ve noticed that in recent months the Sterling Select Board, its Out-of-Town blow-in paycheck patriots Bill Caldwell, Town Administrator, and Stephen Wallace, dead-weight so-called ‘Town Planner,’ and the Planning Board, chaired by self-dealing weasel developer Carl Corrinne, none of whom gives a rat’s ass about degrading the Town of Sterling’s semi-rural character, have not placed any so-called “MBTA Multi-Family Zoning Districts” propaganda items on the Town website’s “NEWS” webpage. Instead, that stuff has been confined to the Planning Board section.

SO, let’s examine the lies and falsehoods set forth on the Planning Board’s ‘MBTA Zoning’ propaganda webpage, reproduced below, shall we?

Planning Board

“MBTA Communities Zoning Requirements

The MBTA Communities Act and Sterling

The State Legislature passed the MBTA Communities Zoning Act four years ago. The Act requires all MBTA communities and communities adjacent to MBTA communities to create overlay zoning districts that allow multi-family housing By Right (as opposed to by Special Permit).

Sterling is considered an “MBTA- adjacent small town” and is required to find enough land to accommodate a housing district at a density of 15 units per acre, which equates to 156 multi-family units in the overlay district (approximately 12 to 15 acres of land). This density is not feasible without municipal sewer. 

The law requires that the Town allow for the possibility of creating 156 multi-family housing units, and does not require the Town to ensure that it gets built.  In a practical sense, all the Town is doing is adding another use allowed by right within the area designated for the overlay district. 

Municipalities that fail to comply with this section shall not be eligible for a variety of State grant programs, including: 

  • Housing Choice Initiative
  • Local Capital Projects Fund
  • MassWorks infrastructure program
  • HousingWorks infrastructure program

This link will take you to the State’s MBTA Communities web page:  Multi-Family Zoning Requirement for MBTA Communities | Mass.gov

The latest version of Sterling’s MBTA-housing bylaw can be found HERE. 

In November 2024, the Select Board directed the Town Planner to work with Town Counsel and the regional planning commission (Montachusett Regional Planning Commission – MRPC) to take another look at the Northgate area for Sterling’s MBTA-overlay district. MRPC came up with five options for locating the MBTA-overlay district near its border with Leominster:

At its meeting on May 22, 2025, the Planning Board chose Option #3 for the following reasons:

  • the close proximity of the Leominster sewer line,
  • the nearby Northgate multi-family housing development,
  • Route 12 being a MART (Montachusett Regional Transit Authority) bus route,
  • and the district being located on both sides of the road so that any development that comes in will not channel traffic onto Route 12 from a single point of entry.

At its meeting on June 18, 2025, the Select Board voted to approve the Planning Board’s preferred option and a pre-adoption review request was submitted to the State the following day.  You can read the Town’s pre-adoption review request HERE. 

The State should respond by the end of the summer. The Town will then convene a Special Town Meeting on the MBTA matter towards the end of the calendar year.”

STERLING PLANNING BOARD FALSEHOOD NO. 1:  “The State Legislature passed the MBTA Communities Zoning Act four years ago. The Act requires all MBTA communities and communities adjacent to MBTA communities to create overlay zoning districts that allow multi-family housing By Right (emphasis added).”

THE TRUTH:  Mass. Gen. Laws Ch. 40A, Section 3A, the controlling statute, was enacted in January 2021. That statute makes NO REFERENCE WHATSOEVER TO “ADJACENT COMMUNITIES” AND ONLY REQUIRES “MBTA COMMUNITIES” HAVING LAND WITHIN ONE-HALF (1/2) MILE OF AN MBTA TRAIN STATION, BUS STATION, FERRY TERMINAL, ETC., TO ADOPT AN ‘MBTA Multi-Family Zoning District’ WITHIN ONE-HALF (1/2) MILE—WALKING DISTANCE– OF SUCH AN MBTA TRAIN STATION, BUS STATION, FERRY TERMINAL, ETC..

The ’adjacent communities’ language is a contrived concoction of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities (an Oxymoron) ‘Compliance Guidelines Team’ who pulled the term ‘adjacent communities’ out of their asses and stuck it in their COMPLETELY BOGUS ‘Compliance Guidelines’ falsely purporting to implement Ch. 40A, Section 3A. The language in Chapter 40A, Section 3A overrides the bogus ‘Compliance Guidelines,’ NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND. Chapter 40A, Section 3A is set forth here:

(a)

(1)

An MBTA community shall have a zoning ordinance or by-law that provides for at least 1 district of reasonable size in which multi-family housing is permitted as of right; provided, however, that such multi-family housing shall bewithout age restrictions and shall be suitable for families with children. For the purposes of this section, a district of reasonable size shall: (i) have a minimum gross density of 15 units per acre, subject to any further limitations imposed by section 40 of chapter 131 and title 5 of the state environmental code established pursuant to section 13 of chapter 21A; and (ii) be located not more than 0.5 miles from a commuter rail station, subway station, ferry terminal or bus station, if applicable (emphasis added).

(b)

An MBTA community that fails to comply with this section shall not be eligible for funds from: (i) the Housing Choice Initiative as described by the governor in a message to the general court dated December 11, 2017; (ii) the Local Capital Projects Fund established in section 2EEEE of chapter 29; (iii) the MassWorks infrastructure program established in section 63 of chapter 23A, or (iv) the HousingWorks infrastructure program established in section 27½ of chapter 23B.

(c)

The executive office of housing and livable communities, in consultation with the executive office of economic development, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, shall promulgate guidelines to determine if an MBTA community is in compliance with this section.

In the case of Attorney General vs. Town of Milton et al., decided January 8, 2025, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court said twice that MBTA multi-family zoning districts MUST BE WITHIN ½ MILE OF AN MBTA TRAIN STATION, MBTA BUS STATION, MBTA FERRY TERMINAL, ETC..

READ THE ENTIRE DECISION HERE: www.mass.gov/doc/attorney-general-v-town-of-milton-executive-office-of-housing-and-livable-communities-sjc-13580/download

All of this brings up the issue and meaning of Ultra Vires in the law. Black’s Law Dictionary, the go-to legal dictionary, 2nd Edition, defines Ultra Vires thusly:

“A body exercising an invalid excess or power of authority” (emphasis added).

The Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities (an Oxymoron) bogus so-called ‘Compliance Guidelines’ are Ultra Vires in that they exceed the scope of the explicit parameters set forth in Chapter 40A, Section 3A, as interpreted by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and are therefore unenforceable.

STERLING PLANNING BOARD FALSEHOOD NO. 2:  “Sterling is considered an “MBTA- adjacent small town” and is required to find enough land to accommodate a housing district at a density of 15 units per acre, which equates to 156 multi-family units in the overlay district (approximately 12 to 15 acres of land)(emphasis added).

THE TRUTH:  Mass. Gen. Laws Ch. 40A, Section 3A, the controlling statute, refers only to “an MBTA community,” NOT an “MBTA-adjacent small town.’ The bogus term “MBTA-adjacent small town” was concocted by the MAEOHLC ‘Guidelines Team’ who pulled it out of their asses. As noted, that bogus term is Ultra Vires and, therefore, unenforceable. MOREOVER, Sterling has NO LAND within 5-6 miles of the nearest MBTA train station in Leominster, is well beyond the ½ mile MBTA zoning districts limit, AND, THEREFORE, IS NOT REQUIRED TO ADOPT ANY MBTA MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING DISTRICT.

THE STERLING PLANNING BOARD’S FALSEHOOD NO. 3:  “The law requires that the Town allow for the possibility of creating 156 multi-family housing units…(emphasis added).”

THE TRUTH: That assertion is false for the reasons stated above.  MOREOVER, NOTHING IN CHAPTER 40A, SECTION 3A MENTIONS A MINIMUM DISTRICT SIZE OF 12-15 ACRES OR SO. The MAEOHLC bogus ‘Guidelines Team’ is using arbitrary and capricious computer-generated size requirements pulled out of their asses. They are ULTRA VIRES and unenforceable.

THE STERLING PLANNING BOARD’S FALSEHOOD NO. 4: 

“Municipalities that fail to comply with this section shall not be eligible for a variety of State grant programs, including:

  • Housing Choice Initiative
  • Local Capital Projects Fund
  • MassWorks infrastructure program
  • HousingWorks infrastructure program” (emphasis added).

THE TRUTH:  For the reasons set forth above, Mass. Gen. Laws Ch. 40A, Section 3A DOES NOT APPLY TO THE TOWN OF STERLING. THEREFORE, THE TOWN OF STERLING IS ELIGIBLE TO APPLY FOR GRANT CATEGORIES REFERRED TO. THE STERLING SELECT BOARD, PLANNING BOARD, TOWN ADMINISTRATOR, AND TOWN PLANNER ARE ALL FALSELY EQUATING THE BOGUS ‘COMPLIANCE GUIDELINES’ WITH THE ACTUAL LANGUAGE SET FORTH IN THE CONTROLLING STATUTE, CH. 40A, SECTION 3A. IF THEY HAD ANY INTEGRITY AND GUTS—AND THEY OBVIOUSLY DO NOT—THEY’D HAVE TOWN COUNSEL FILE A WORCESTER SUPERIOR ACTION CHALLENGING THE ‘COMPLIANCE GUIDELINES’ APPLICABILITY TO THE TOWN OF STERLING. INSTEAD, THEY PREFER TO STICK THEIR HANDS OUT, TAKING THE TAXPAYER-SUPPLIED-STATE-MONEY-GRUBBING EASY WAY OUT, THEREBY SUBVERTING THE TOWN OF STERLING’S SOVEREIGNTY AND CHARACTER BY PUSHING FOR APPROVAL OF A BOGUS SO-CALLED ‘MBTA MULTI-FAMILY ZONING DISTRICT’ ON BOTH SIDES OF ROUTE 12 IN NORTH STERLING NEAR THE GIGANTIC “NORTHGATE MEADOWS” APARTMENT COMPLEX AND THE BUSINESS PARK HOUSING THE REGISTRY OF MOTOR VEHICLES OFFICE. YEAH, JACKASSES, AS A PUBLIC SAFETY MATTER WE NEED MORE CARS ENTERING ROUTE 12 FROM BOTH SIDES IN THAT AREA.

SIDEBAR: The Kirsten Newman-Patty Page Connection to the Montachusett Regional Planning Commission.

The following is on the Sterling Planning Board webpage re-printed above:

“In November 2024, the Select Board directed the Town Planner to work with Town Counsel and the regional planning commission (Montachusett Regional Planning Commission – MRPC) to take another look at the Northgate area for Sterling’s MBTA-overlay district. MRPC came up with five options for locating the MBTA-overlay district near its border with Leominster:

Well, well, folks, just scroll down and check out the Montachusett Regional Planning Commission roster:

Click to access members_and_alternates_fy_2024.pdf

Sterling’s Select Board Chair, Kirsten Newman, a DemocRAT statist lemming if there ever was one, and Patty Page, another Sterling Municipal Building paycheck patriot–

https://www.sterling-ma.gov/people/patty-page—

–JUST HAPPEN TO ‘REPRESENT’ STERLING ON THE MONTACHUSETT REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION. The Montachusett Regional Planning Commission is entirely a creature of the State dependent on government funds–

https://www.mrpc.org/

Hey Kirsten, Hey Patty, NICE ECHO CHAMBER YOU SET UP!

AND IF THAT AIN’T BAD ENOUGH, MR. KIRSTEN NEWMAN IS ON THE STERLING PLANNING BOARD–

https://www.sterling-ma.gov/planning-board

–HELPING TO PUT OUT THE FALSE INFORMATION ILLUSTRATED ABOVE.

SEE HOW STERLING TOWN GOVERNMENT BULLSHIT IS SPREAD ON MULTIPLE LEVELS???!!!

HELP MAINTAIN THE TOWN OF STERLING’S SOVEREIGNTY AND CHARACER BY VOTING DOWN BOGUS ‘MBTA ZONING’ WHEN IT COMES UP AT THE SPECIAL TOWN MEETING THIS AUTUMN.

Stay tuned.

J.G.

THE COMPLETELY DEGENERATE “MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL COMMITTEES” AND EQUALLY DEGENERATE TEACHERS’ UNIONS SEEK TO SUBVERT THE U.S. SUPREME COURT’S MAHMOUD VS. TAYLOR DECISION PERMITTING PARENTS TO OPT THEIR KIDS OUT OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOL LGBTQ BRAINWASHING

The MassResistance warning article is reprinted in its entirety. Read on:

Teachers’ Union and State School Committee orgs are already working to subvert SCOTUS Mahmoud v. Taylor ruling.

Court ruled that elementary schools must allow opt-out for LGBTQ books.

MassResistance is going further: Coaching parents around the country how to stop the entire radical subversion.

July 15, 2025

ALT TEXT America’s largest teachers’ union is working hard against parents and their children. But we’re organizing to remove the entire agenda from schools!

On June 27, the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruled 6-3 in the Mahmoud v. Taylor case that parents in Montgomery County, MD, have the right to opt-out their elementary school children from “LGBTQ-inclusive” storybooks if the books conflict with their religious beliefs. The Justices cited the First Amendment’s religious freedom clause. The parents in this case had lost before the Federal District Court and Appeals Court.

The school district had previously allowed opt-outs but then revoked that option, forcing children to participate without parental notice or consent.

Although the ruling appears to only apply to elementary school children, it is being celebrated by parents across the country as a big win. But how big a win is it really?

School districts pushing LGBTQ storybooks on young children has been a problem since at least 2005, when the David Parker case (in Massachusetts) made national headlines. As we reported at the time, Parker was arrested and briefly jailed when he protested his six-year-old son being read a “gay marriage” book in kindergarten. He sued the school district in Federal District Court and the Appeals Court using the same First Amendment argument – and lost. However, SCOTUS would not take the case.

In handcuffs, David Parker, parent of kindergartner, stands before a Judge in District Court on, April 28, 2005, after spending the night in jail. His “crime” was objecting to the homosexual curriculum in son’s kindergarten class. He was barred from all school property for a year.

Leftist groups immediately work to subvert Mahmoud v. Taylor ruling

Within days of that ruling, the powerful leftist organizations that support the radical agendas in our schools got to work to exploit any possible loophole in the text to subvert it, and find ways for schools to continue to push the LGBTQ agenda on young children without parents’ consent. The National Education Association (NEA) – the country’s largest teachers’ union – and various state School Committee Associations are leading the way.

National Education Association  

On July 6, days after the Mahmoud ruling, the NEA approved a resolution in response. It was not meant to be seen by the public, but school choice activist Cory DeAngelis got a copy and posted it in his X account.

The NEA is pledging to “protect educators in the classroom who are teaching LGBTQ+ curriculum/content,” and help them avoid any disciplinary action when they mix it into other subject areas.

ALT TEXT From the NEA’s resolution. They want their members to feel “safe” pushing this poisonous agenda on elementary school children, no matter what the US Supreme Court says.

The NEA also announced its plans to publish a “Know Your Rights” document about the ruling, and hold “virtual town hall” meetings to help its members safely push the LGBTQ agenda “in this new political climate.”

Massachusetts Association of School Committees

The statewide school committee associations across the country, which are unfamiliar to most parents, are ostensibly run to help school committees across the state keep up with important current issues, training, and new committee member orientation. But in recent decades, most of them have become poisonous leftist advocacy groups that push and normalize virtually all the radical agendas to school committee members.

The Massachusetts Association of School Committees (MASC) sent an email to school committees throughout the state on July 3. (It is also reprinted on their website.)

MASC didn’t mince words about the Mahmoud ruling’s order to allow parents to opt out. It said, “this case has been viewed as an attack on the LGBTQ+ community,” and is a “direct challenge” to school districts’ “responsibilities” to present this material to young children whether the parents agree or not.

 The various school committee associations around the country keep in the background, and have become terribly radicalized with leftist ideology.

In the memo, MASC recommends against adopting a universal opt-out policy. Instead, they provided a list of ways that schools could circumvent that requirement and avoid granting any opt-out requests by parents. They also offered to provide legal assistance to their “questions and concerns.”

Here’s what we really need to do

As good as the Mahmoud ruling is, it unfortunately just serves as a stopgap measure. It applies to elementary school students, only certain books, requires opt-out (versus opt-in), and applies to parents claiming religious beliefs. Moreover, the leftist forces that are already in the schools are working overtime to find loopholes and sleazy workarounds. It will take more litigation by parents to fight those.

Moreover, bad books in elementary schools are just the tip of the iceberg. Schools from K-12 are infested with toxic propaganda and radicalism. From “gay clubs” to gender ideology, comprehensive “sex-ed,” anti-Americanism, DEI, transgenderism, Marxism, pro-Hamas lessons, and more. Students are learning less actual academics, reading skills, thinking skills, etc.

In other words, whether parents like it or not, we are at war! It’s a war that we must win.

Schools need to deliver what parents and taxpayers actually want and expect when they enroll their children. MassResistance is working with parent groups in school districts to:

  • Completely get rid of all the radicalism and propaganda from the schools.
  • Replace it with actual academics and legitimate learning.
  • Remove teachers and staff members who work against that goal.

It’s a big job that involves confrontation with bad leftists. If parents don’t win the battle this way – completely – the assault on children’s minds will never end.

This fight can definitely be won. If you want to start this battle in your district, contact us!

Half-baked measures will never work

The conservative movement is famous (or infamous) for not having the fortitude to fight this battle the way it needs to be fought. They want to testify before their school board, elect a few “good” school board members, or “inform” the community. In practice, this never succeeds. Testifying falls on deaf ears. “Good” school board members can rarely change things. Just because the public is “informed” doesn’t mean that they will actually do anything effective.

It’s ironic that about a month before the Mahmoud ruling came out, MassResistance was attempting to help a parents’ group in Montgomery County, MD – where the Mahmoud lawsuit originated – deal with these issues in their schools. (They did not know when or how SCOTUS would rule on this.) The parents we worked with did not want to actually fight. They were afraid of the teachers’ union. They wanted to try and elect good school committee members. But mostly (they told us), they wanted to inform the public about what was happening in the schools.

Final thoughts

We have a lot of problems with the “religious freedom” argument when fighting LGBTQ propaganda in the schools. What about people who don’t have “sincere religious beliefs” on the LGBTQ issue but still don’t want their children exposed to it? (And how does someone prove his beliefs are “sincerely held”?) Most parents we talk to simply find it to be disgusting perversion that harms children. It perpetuates behaviors that cause disease and mental health problems. This is the real argument – which parents for hundreds of years would have immediately made. But unfortunately, too many conservatives today are too cowardly to use it.

And finally, we’re tired of this “opt-out” nonsense. None of this toxic material should be there at all. Contrary to the left’s absurd talking points, none of it does any child any good. In particular, pornography (and most certainly LGBT pornography) is destructive to everyone, especially children.

   

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ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT, 16 JULY 2025, THE STERLING FINANCE COMMITTEE, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE CAPITAL BUDGET COMMITTEE, WILL BECOME AN OFFICIAL DEPARTMENT OF THE BLOATED, PROFLIGATE, OUT-OF-CONTROL, DEI-OBSESSED, LGBTQ-GROOMING, INCOMPETENT, FAILING WACHUSETT REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT

The Sterling Finance Committee, already a WRSD lapdog if not outright WRSD cheerleader, on Wednesday night, 16 July 2025, in conjunction with the Capital Budget Committee, will become an official department of that bloated, profligate, out-of-control, DEI-obsessed, LGBTQ-grooming, incompetent, failing government school district exploiting, shamelessly, the district property-taxpayer-funded public mammary gland.

What happens Wednesday night, 16 July 2025? That’s the night the gutless, witless, profligate Sterling Select Board appoints Marina Meehan to the Sterling Finance Committee and Linda Woodland to the Capital Budget Committee, although the posted agendas don’t make it clear exactly whom is being appointed to what. No matter, the two Committees spill over into each other

SEE  https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/agendas/2025_07_16_joint_fincom-cbc_agenda.pdf

SEE  https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/agendas/2025_7_16_agenda.pdf

In case you need reminding, Linda Woodland is the execrable, shameless, verbose WRSD shill who was a Sterling WRSD Committee member until May 2025. She’s the Sterling member who blew WRSD smoke at Sterling’s annual town meetings because Sterling’s other two WRSD Committee members were too vacuous to even blow WRSD smoke. As I’ve noted previously, Linda Woodland blows more WRSD smoke than a U.S. Navy smokescreen generator.

As for Marina Meehan, she’s the young unknown who ran for Sterling Select Board this year and lost. BUT, her mother was a WRSD teacher. That tells us all we need to know about her WRSD allegiance.

So, when you wake up Thursday morning, 17 July 2025, the Sterling Finance Committee, in conjunction with the Capital Budget Committee, will be a new WRSD department excluding, perhaps, nominal member John Kilcoyne because he’s just a blundering, blabbering, incoherent idiot.

MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT—A LARGE WRSD PROPOSITION 2 ½ property tax override Warrant Article will be on the 2026 Sterling Annual Town Meeting Warrant. It will be up to us to PACK that Annual Town Meeting and shoot it down.

It’s waaaay past time to end the WRSD grift racket: https://amgreatness.com/2025/07/13/ending-the-school-grift/

Stay tuned.

J.G.

OUT-OF-TOWN BLOW-INS FILE A COMPLETELY BOGUS SO-CALLED ‘MULTI-FAMILY DEVELOPMENT’ PLAN FOR 121-125 FLANAGAN HILL ROAD

The Sterling Zoning Board of Appeals conducted its initial hearing on the completely BOGUS plan filed by Out-of-Town Blow-Ins to build 30 so-called ‘multi-family’ housing structures, all apparently duplexes, at 121-125 Flanagan Hill Road. Sterling ‘Multi-Family’ developments are governed by Sterling Zoning By-Law Section 301-4.2 et seq. SEE https://ecode360.com/37344979

The Sterling land in question consists of two (2) parcels totaling 9.9 acres, or 431,244 square feet. In Sterling sixty per cent (60%) of the land area upon which a ‘Multi-Family Development’ is built MUST be preserved as ‘open space,’ leaving forty per cent (40 %) of the land available for dwelling structures, access road(s), septic field(s), etc.. In this instance that leaves a total of 172,497.6 square feet available for infrastructure construction.

Sterling Zoning By-Law Section 301-4.2.2.1 under NOTES provides: “Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 301-4.2.2.1, the lot area per dwelling unit for any multifamily dwelling consisting of only two units [a duplex] shall be 20,000 square feet per dwelling unit (emphasis added).”

One hundred seventy-two thousand four hundred and ninety-seven point six (172,497.6) square feet divided by 20,000 equals 8.6 dwelling units, OR FOUR (4) DUPLEXES ONLY, NOT THE THIRTY (30) UNITS SET FORTH ON THE PLAN PROPOSAL REPRINTED BELOW.

IF the ENTIRE lot area of 431,244 square feet is taken into account and divided by 20,000 the result is 21.5 dwelling units OR TEN (10) DUPLEXES ONLY. Nothing in the Zoning By-Laws says that these Clowns are entitled to claim a round-up to 22 dwelling units or 11 duplexes.

NOTE that this COMPLETELY BOGUS plan submitted by the proponent ‘LANCASTER STERLING LLC’ of West Greenwich, Rhode Island, and its engineering firm, J.M. Grenier Associates, Inc., Southborough, MA, in the legend, refers to 1 unit x 30 units, meaning that the plan is FOR 30 SINGLE-DWELLING-UNIT STRUCTURES THAT DON’T QUALIFY FOR MULTI-FAMILY DEVELOPMENT TREATMENT. The plan shows four (4) of those units encroaching on the unbuildable wetlands buffer zone on the southerly side of the property. That is a display of BOTH UTTER ARROGANCE AND STUPIDITY.

NOTE also that the purported soil percolation and deep hole testing records for this proposed development’s septic field, on file with the Sterling Board of Health, has an illegible soil tester, an un-named purported Sterling Board of Health ‘witness,’ and a date of January 23, 2025.

Ya’ think any reputable soil testing is done in the dead of winter??? ME NEITHER.

NOTE FURTHER: The purported soil testing was done on the Northwest corner of the property not far from the Spotted Turtle culvert crossing under Country Club Road. The Spotted Turtle was on the Massachusetts Endangered Species List until 2006.

The Sterling Zoning Board of Appeals continued the hearing on this completely BULLSHIT PROPOSAL to 12 August 2025. I assume that a revised plan will be filed before then showing duplexes instead of single-dwelling-unit structures.

Stay tuned.

J.G.

BREAKING NEWS: U.S. SUPREME COURT RULES THAT PARENTS HAVE THE RIGHT TO OPT THEIR KIDS OUT OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOL LGBTQ PROPAGANDA/BRAINWASHING

In a waaaaay overdue legal rebuke to government school LGBTQ propagandists-brainwashers-groomers, including their Wachusett Regional School District ilk, the U.S. Supreme Court, on 27 June 2025, ruled that parents of kids in government schools have the right to opt their kids out of government school LGBTQ propaganda/brainwashing.

SEE: https://thefederalist.com/2025/06/27/supreme-court-allows-parents-to-opt-children-out-of-lgbt-propaganda-in-school/

OH, THE HORROR!!! Just think of it—government school LGBTQ administrator and teacher groomers feeding from the taxpayer-funded public mammary gland will be forced to focus on teaching English, reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, history, civics, foreign languages, science, music, etc., instead. Among the sciences is basic biology and, for them, the uncomfortable, irrefutable FACT that there are ONLY TWO SEXES AND THAT AN INDIVIDUAL HAS EITHER XX CHROMOSOMES OR XY CHROMOSOMES.

Just now tranny pearl-and-feather boa clutching has reached EPIC proportions, and the Wachusett Regional School District Committee and Administration have been traumatized severely and will probably enter echo chamber group therapy. Serves they/them right!

Stay tuned.

Moi? I can’t wipe the smile off my face as I ponder their predicament.

J.G.

I SHIH TZU NOT!—THE STERLING FINANCE COMMITTEE LAPDOGS ARE JUST FINE WITH OUT-OF-CONTROL WACHUSETT REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT  SPENDING AND KICKING  STERLING’S FISCAL TIME-BOMB DOWN THE ROAD

My copy of Sterling’s useless fluff-piece, The Sterling Meetinghouse News, arrived in today’s mail and, lo and behold, on the last page appeared the article entitled “Sterling Town Meeting Draws Large Turnout and Advances Key Initiatives,” authored by the Sterling Finance Committee. Lest you forget, the Sterling Finance Committee, collectively, is supposed to be the Town’s fiscal watchdog. Problem is, its members are appointed by the useless, vapid, gutless, irresponsible, gladhander media hounds known as the Sterling Select Board.  

Since 2012 a grand total of TWO Sterling Finance Committee Chairs, Larry Pape and George Handy, have displayed the acuity, guts, and resolve to lead Sterling’s Finance Committee, at the 2012 and 2024 Sterling Annual Town Meetings, respectively, to recommend AGAINST passage of the Wachusett Regional School District’s usual exorbitant and outrageous budget requests. Their recommendations were heeded and Sterling Annual Town Meeting voters rejected the WRSD’s requested Sterling school budget appropriations shares at those two Annual Town Meetings. BUT, to the useless, vapid, gutless, irresponsible, gladhander media hounds known as the Sterling Select Board, making recommendations against the WRSD’s perennially out-of-control, outrageous budget requests is politically incorrect and a political lability. SO in 2012 the useless, vapid, gutless, irresponsible, gladhander media hounds known as the Sterling Select Board voted NOT to re-appoint Larry Pape to the Finance Committee and in 2024 did likewise with George Handy.

The result? Lessons learned. The Sterling Finance Committee is not a fiscal watchdog protecting Sterling’s property taxpayers, rather it is a collection of Select Board lapdogs of the Shih Tzu variety—

I Shih Tzu not!

So let’s get back to the above-referenced Finance Committee article, shall we?! I start with “On the education front…the Wachusett Regional School District… budget[ ] [was] approved. The WRSD budget reflects a $7 million increase district-wide, enabling important improvements in early education, including the hiring of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) teachers and interventionists across the district elementary schools. Once again, WRSD was placed in ‘hold harmless’ status by the state—a designation that freezes the district’s Chapter 70 aid close to prior year levels….”

That’s right Sterling Finance Committee ASSCLOWNS—UNLIKE YOU, the state  acknowledges that since Fiscal Year 2010 WRSD total student enrollment has dropped by 936, from 7493 to 6557, or 12.5%, MEANING THAT UNDER MASS. GEN. LAWS CHAPTER 71, SECTION 42 THE WRSD SUPERINTENDENT SHOULD BE IMPLEMENTING CORRESPONDING “REDUCTIONS IN FORCE,” NOT ADDING TO THE WRSD’S BLOATED PAYROLL THAT TOTALLED 1040 DURING THIS FISCAL YEAR.

The WRSD now has 1 employee for every 6.3 students and the student-teacher ratio is down to 14:1.

While WRSD student enrollment has been falling like a stone, the WRSD budget has increased from $81.3 million in FY 2015-2016 to $129.2 million for FY 2025-2026—a $48 million increase, and $7 million over last year’s WRSD budget.

Here is the key language in Mass. Gen. Laws Ch. 71, Section 42—

“Nothing in this section or section 41 shall affect the right of a superintendent to lay off teachers pursuant to reductions in force or reorganization resulting from declining enrollment or other budgetary reasons.”

BUT, BUT, BUT THE WRSD JUST HAD TO HIRE 17 NEW “STEAM” TEACHERS AND SOME “INTERVENTIONISTS” BECAUSE THE WRSD COMMITTTEE IS SO INCOMPETENT THAT IT OMITTED PHONICS FROM THE WRSD CURRICULUM FOR YEARS SO THAT READING LEVELS ARE 3 FULL GRADES BELOW WHAT THEY SHOULD BE. OTHER PERFORMANCE LEVELS ARE BELOW GRADE LEVEL TOO.

Question for the Sterling Finance Committee— HOW DOES WRSD COLLECTIVE BARGAINING UNIT ASS TASTE???

MEMO to the Sterling Finance Committee: If we want to watch WRSD cheerleaders we can do that at football and basketball games. We don’t want to see you doing it at the Sterling Annual Town Meeting Finance Committee table at taxpayer expense.

Moving on, this also appeared in that Finance Committee article: “Two significant public works projects also gained approval. First, an $800,000 borrowing authorization for long-needed drainage improvements on Swett Hill Road passed at both the Town Meeting and subsequent debt exclusion [ Proposition 2 ½ tax limit override] ballot… The second project authorizes $500,000 for initial design work and project management…[for] a potential new …[DPW] facility…[whose] associated debt exclusion [Proposition 2 ½ tax limit override] did not pass at the ballot….”

First off, there is no Swett Hill Road drainage or erosion problem. At the Annual Town Meeting Sterling D.P.W. reps showed NO photographs depicting ANY damage to Swett Hill Road. And if there were, it could be rectified easily by putting a larger diameter culvert under the roadbed. THE REAL ISSUE, AS DEPICTED IN THE D.P.W. PHOTOGRAPHS, IS THE INTERMITTENT STREAM THAT RUNS DOWNHILL AND CARRIES SAND AND SILT THROUGH THE SHOLAN PARK/TOWN BEACH PROPERTY DURING HIGH-RUNOFF/SNOWMELT PERIODS.

That’s what happens when an intermittent stream runs through your property into a pond or lake. Too effing bad!

Yeah, so the Finance Committee recommended passage of that $800,000 misrepresented boondoggle— Warrant Article 26—at the Annual Town Meeting. So much for truth in advertising and spending. That was a win for the ‘East Waushacum Lake Association,’ not for Sterling Property taxpayers. Barbara Roberti, Chair of the Sterling Conservation Commission, just happens to live on East Waushacum Lake. Quelle surprise!!!

And yeah, the Sterling Finance Committee recommended passage of Warrant Article 25, to the tune of $500,000, for the Sterling D.P.W.’s proposed ‘Garage Mahal’ boondoggle. The Sterling Finance Committee wants Sterling D.P.W. trucks to live large, very large, in luxury, dontcha know. At the Annual Town Meeting the Sterling D.P.W. reps admitted that they never checked out ANY of the MANY steel buildings all along Pratt Junction Road and Chocksett Road seeking a cheaper alternative to the sought-after ‘Garage Mahal’ that Mr. Gauthier of the Finance Committee estimated would cost $33 million and drive up Sterling property tax rates by 11% during the multi-year life of the borrowing bond that would be required. THANK GOD STERLING TAXPAYERS WERE SMART ENOUGH TO VOTE DOWN ARTICLE 25’s PROPOSED PROPOSITION 2 ½ OVERRIDE, NOTWITHSTANDING THE UTTER GUTLESS STUPIDITY DISPLAYED BY THE STERLING FINANCE COMMITTEE.

ALAS, people, TAKE HEART! The Finance Committee also wrote that its recommended local option meals tax and local option room tax increases passed at the Annual Town Meeting “with the Massachusetts DOR projecting they could generate $80,000 annually.”

SO, FOLKS, THE STERLING FINANCE COMMITTEE IS HAPPY TO RECOMMEND STIFFING STERLING TAXPAYERS BY $MILLIONS, BUT THEN PATS ITSELF ON THE BACK FOR GETTING LOCAL MEALS AND ROOM TAXES INCREASED MARGINALLY CONSTITUTING AN $80,000 FINGER STUCK INTO THE FLOODED SPENDING DIKE. AND THEY HAVE THE UTTER TEMERITY TO CALL THE RESULT “IMPACTFUL.”

“IMPACTFUL” MY ASS.

THE STERLING FINANCE COMMITTEE ARE DELUSIONAL ASSCLOWNS.

THE PROPOSITION 2 ½ OVERRIDE TIME-BOMB WAS KICKED DOWN THE ROAD TO NEXT YEAR.

IT’S COMING AND I SHIH TZU NOT.

J.G.

DRACUT VOTERS, LIKE HOLDEN VOTERS, TELL MASSACHUSETTS AND TOWN OFFICIALS TO SHOVE ‘MBTA MULTI-FAMILY ZONING’ SIDEWAYS

Citizens in yet another Massachusetts town vote to uphold local sovereignty. YAY!

SEE:  https://www.lowellsun.com/2025/06/03/dracut-town-meeting-soundly-rejects-mbta-communities-multifamily-zoning/

J.G.

FIGHT LGBTQ GROOMER PERVERTS IN THE WACHUSETT REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT! MASSRESISTANCE’S OPEN LETTER TO AMERICAN PARENTS

MassResistance was founded by brilliant, courageous Brian Camenker right here in the Commie Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Read on:

MassResistance warns parents that fear and complacency are enabling LGBT “indoctrination” in schools—and urges bold, confrontational activism to reclaim education.

By Arthur Schaper

May 26, 2025

For the last ten years, I have worked for MassResistance, an international organization that has been fighting the LGBT agenda targeting children and undermining parents in all of its perverse forms. We have had numerous successes, and lately we have generated considerable attention on overturning Obergefell v. Hodges and restoring natural marriage in the United States.

For the last year and a half, though, few parents have reached out to us, and fewer have been willing to take a stand to stop this agenda. Parents across the country want to focus on elections instead of pro-family activism.

Based on our extensive work with MassResistance, I have found that such a strategy is doomed to fail. Elected officials too often move to the center, hide their intentions, or just give up on their campaign promises. Why? The superintendent, school administration, staff, and labor unions push back on any reforms. They don’t want controversy or conflict to conflict with their narrow interests: higher salaries, enriched pensions and benefits, and an easier consolidation of power and prestige. Worse yet, many school districts are stuffed with professional and classified staff committed to every woke LGBT agenda item, thoroughly indoctrinated in the university system to get their professional credentials and master’s degrees.

School board members, even the bravest of them all, will face an uphill battle trying to change this culture of corruption in their local schools. Citizen activism—MassResistance—is more essential than ever to taking back our schools and making education great again. The surest way to stop the spread of LGBT indoctrination and abuse in the schools is to force school districts to get back to basics and get back to educating our youth to be great thinkers, leaders, and creators for the future.

One way this can be done is by reporting to the federal authorities any pro-transgender and pro-DEI policies in your local school systems and state education departments. The hope is that the federal monies would be withdrawn from that school district or the entire state.

We must expose teachers and staff who push LGBT indoctrination in the schools.

Pornographic books in a school’s curriculum or library may also fall under President Trump’s Executive Order against the promotion of “gender” issues in schools. Likewise, these materials can be reported in the hope that federal funds will be withdrawn.

School GSA (Gay Straight Alliance) clubs should be shut down. The issue is not free speech. Since the clubs focus on sex and gender, they violate Trump’s orders to clean this material out of schools. Besides, these clubs are disruptive to the learning environment.

MassResistance is committed to organizing parents in any locale to hold standouts exposing these violations. We can get local news to cover them and push your info to social media.

But we have to wonder: what has happened to the parents now?

Parents who have reached out to MassResistance for help start getting cold feet as soon as we outline the steps needed to take on the LGBT left in their local schools.

The excuses we have heard from parents are staggering:

  1. “I know some of the teachers on campus, and I don’t want to offend them.”
  2. “We own a business in the community, and we don’t want people to start boycotting us.”
  3. “MassResistance is too confrontational. We want a kinder approach to getting our way.”
  4. “I am worried about retaliation against my kid in the classroom. What’s going to happen to them if I speak up?”

All of the concerns and excuses from parents can be summed up with one word: fear.

Parents, are you going to let fear of the educational establishment and the local press dictate whether you step up to protect your children? How can this be, after all the work so many of you have done already to start cleaning up and exposing the moral rot in your children’s schools?

The other problem we have been running into is that they think they can approach school administrators, teachers, and other staff from a position of compromise. Parents don’t realize that school officials, especially the elected school board members, are either cowardly or complicit when it comes to the kind of garbage they subject students to in the classroom.

Too many parents still believe that school operators are on their side when in reality, they are running operations for their own benefit (see my comments above) and with no regard for the students. Why else would they strive to keep secrets from them?

And if you think that is not the case, think again.

Four years ago, MassResistance published an extensive exposé about the Ludlow School District in Massachusetts. The school librarian, herself one of the wacky non-binary/lesbian transgenders that Libs of TikTok loves to mock, was grooming and transitioning children to take on false names and pretend to be the opposite sex. The librarian even arranged for the students to form a suicide pact with other students! This egregious conduct would have gone unnoticed and unchallenged, except for the bravery of one of the teachers, Bonnie Manchester, who sounded the alarm on these abuses and demanded that the school district put a stop to all of it.

In spite of all the obstacles in our way, and because of our outreach to the community, working with parents and friends of the teacher, we were able to force out the superintendent and the librarian! Massachusetts is one of the most tyrannical, pro-LGBT states in the country, and yet we could succeed there. What makes you think that we cannot help you in your community?

MassResistance is here to help every parent we can. We want to win against the LGBT onslaught abusing children in the public schools. But we cannot do it without your help. Even with President Trump back in the Oval Office, the fight is far from over. Children across the country are still being harmed by LGBT indoctrination, and it won’t go away without a sustained MassResistance!

J.G.

2025 HOLDEN TOWN MEETING VOTERS, DISPLAYING INTELLIGENCE AND RESOLVE, VOTE DOWN BOGUS MBTA ZONING

At the Town of Holden’s 2025 Annual Town Meeting, Holden voters, unlike Sterling’s Select Board, Planning Board, and Town Planner, absolute dopes all, displayed intelligence and resolve. They voted down bogus MBTA zoning.

See https://www.holdenma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif4526/f/uploads/mbta_pb_report_and_recom_art_37_0.pdf

See the 22 May 2025 The Landmark– https://www.thelandmark.com/

It will be up to us Sterling voters to do likewise at a future Town Meeting.

J.G

ON 12 MAY 2025 PAXTON VOTERS SHOT DOWN THE JOINT WRSD-TOWN BUDGET PROPOSITION 2 ½ OVERRIDE, MEANING THAT, ENCOURAGED BY THE STERLING FINANCE COMMITTEE’S WRSD BUDGET BLOAT BOOSTERS, STERLING’S STUPID, SELF-FLAGELLATING TOWN MEETING VOTERS BLEW OUR CHANCE TO KNOCK DOWN THE WRSD FY 2026 $129 MILLION BUDGET EXTRAVAGANZA

Welp, almost every year, except 2012 and last year, I’ve been astounded by the majority of stupid, self-flagellating Sterling Town Meeting voters who turn out to screw themselves via ever higher property tax rates to approve the bloated, incompetent, failing, LGBTQ-brainwashing WRSD’s skyrocketing budgets despite total student enrollment and student performance numbers falling like a rock. Of course, this is Massachusetts so nothing should surprise me when it comes to Libtard voting patterns.

     Under the WRSD Agreement, if 2 of the 5 member towns, at their Annual Town Meetings, vote down the WRSD’s proposed next fiscal year budget, the WRSD Committee (vapid, incompetent poseurs) and the Superintendent (dishonest, misleading, and manipulative) are forced to fashion a smaller budget proposal for re-vote.

      This year Sterling and Paxton voters had a chance to shoot down the WRSD’s bloated $129 Million budget, up $7 Million since last year’s despite WRSD total student enrollment dropping by 119 in the same period, since Paxton had a joint WRSD-Paxton Town Budget Proposition 2 ½ Override on its 12 May 2025 town election ballot. That Proposition 2 ½ Override FAILED—

Click to access official_results_ate_5.12.2025.pdf

MEANWHILE, HOWEVER, at Sterling’s 5 May 2025 Annual Town Metting, Sterling’s Finance Committee WRSD Boosters, by a vote of 5-1, “recommend[ed]” passage of the WRSD’s FY 2026 bloated budget request. Sterling’s compliant. stupid, self-flagellating Town Meeting voters, ever-ready to screw themselves via higher property taxes, then voted likewise.

CONGRATULATIONS! upon screwing yourselves, and the rest of us who happen to possess intelligence and common sense.

J.G.

J.G.