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—

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.

ON MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025, VOTE ‘NO’ ON THE STERLING BALLOT QUESTION 2 PROPOSITION 2 ½ PROPERTY TAX OVERRIDE AND STOP THE STERLING D.P.W.’S $33 MILLION ‘GARAGE MAHAL’ BOONDOGGLE IN ITS TRACKS

Folks, the out-of-control SPENDING JACKASSES running the Sterling D.P.W. want us Sterling property taxpayers to cough up $33 million for their proposed new luxury facility, the ‘Garage Mahal,’ and drive up our property tax rate by 11% for years to come on a borrowing-bond issue.

SEE  https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/minutes/11-13-2024_dpw_facility_committee_minutes.pdf

According to an article in the latest Sterling Meetinghouse News, “The new DPW building will not be a simple ‘town barn.’ It will feature a full-service diesel and gasoline fuel island, a heavy truck repair shop, a vehicle wash bay, and climate-controlled storage for DPW emergency response vehicles. The facility will also include offices, a training room, and other amenities for employees—facilities the current building lacks (emphasis added).”

YA,YA! FOR $33 MILLION OF YOUR PROPERTY TAX DOLLARS THE STERLING D.P.W. WANTS LUXURY LIVING FOR ITS TRUCKS.

DURING THE 5 MAY 2025 STERLING ANNUAL TOWN MEETING THE D.P.W. REPRESENTATIVES ADMITTED THAT THEY NEVER VISITED the Commonwealth of Massachusetts D.P.W. facility on Chocksett Road, ANY of the other properties with STEEL BUILDINGS ALL ALONG Chocksett Road and Pratts Junction Road, Sterling Storage Solutions, or James Monroe Wire & Cable, just over the Town line in Lancaster, to determine what type of FAR CHEAPER steel building(s) the D.P.W. could have designed and then buy instead of their proposed $33 Million ‘Garage Mahal.’ The Sterling D.P.W., OBVIOUSLY, HAS NO CONCERN FOR STERLING PROPERTY TAXPAYERS AND HAS NO INTEREST IN FRUGALITY OR COST EFFECTIVENESS. Steel buildings are too practical, too utilitarian, and too prosaic for the Sterling D.P.W.! I mean, why contact steel building suppliers such as those listed below when you can hose Sterling property taxpayers for $33 Million to put up a luxurious ‘Garage Mahal?’

https://www.steelmasterusa.com/industries/government/

https://www.americanmetalbuildings.com/metal-buildings/commercial-metal-buildings/

https://construxinc.com/

https://www.qualitysteelbuildings.com/industrial-buildings/

https://packagesteelsystem.com/building-solutions

Home

AND HOW ABOUT THIS??? THE STERLING D.P.W. COULD PROTECT ITS VEHICLES FROM THE WEATHER AND SAVE US TAXPAYERS EVEN MORE MONEY BY DESIGNING AND PURCHASING SIMPLE STEEL ‘TRUCKPORTS’:

SEE  https://www.steelbuildingsandstructures.com/products/category/metal-carports/

According to that same Sterling Meetinghouse News article, Sterling D.P.W. ASSCLOWNS “issued a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to select a designer for the new facility… The selected designer will…evaluate potential sites within Sterling and review the feasibility study, current fleet, and space needs… At the Annual Town Meeting on May 5, 2025 the [Sterling D.P.W.] is requesting $500,000 to advance the project through schematic design and hire an owner’s project manager (OPM).”

That’s right folks, the Sterling D.P.W. wants us to pony up $500,000 in seed money for a total shot in the dark and several layers of unnecessary bullshit.

Here is Proposition 2 ½ Override info from the Town of West Boylston since the Sterling Select Board lacks the honesty and integrity needed to post such info on the Town of Sterling website.

SEE  https://www.westboylston-ma.gov/home/pages/proposition-2-12-override-questions-and-answers

That $500,000 Sterling D.P.W. Proposition 2 ½ Override spending request is set forth as 12 May 2025 Town Election Ballot Question 2.

SEE  https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/news/2025_ate_ballot_sample_1_0.pdf

PLEASE SHOW UP AND VOTE IT DOWN. STOP THE ‘GARAGE MAHAL’ BOONDOGGLE IN ITS TRACKS.

MAKE THE STERLING D.P.W. START OVER BY DEALING WITH COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL/GOVERNMENT STEEL BUILDING SUPPLIERS INSTEAD.

J.G.

THE STERLING D.P.W.’S FALSE ADVERTISING: THE SO-CALLED ‘SWETT HILL ROAD EROSION AND RUNOFF CONTROL’ PROPOSITION 2 ½ OVERRIDE BALLOT QUESTION IS REALLY ABOUT SHOLAN PARK AND THE TOWN BEACH THROUGH WHICH FLOWS A MAPPED INTERMITTENT STREAM

Folks, if you attended the 5 May 2025 Sterling Annual Town Meeting you heard and saw false Sterling D.P.W. advertising and hyperbole about the so-called Swett Hill Road ‘Erosion and Runoff Control Project’ for which it wants $800,000 of your hard-earned money by means of a Proposition 2 ½ Property Tax Override Ballot Question on the 12 May 2025 Town Election Ballot.

SEE  https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/news/2025_ate_ballot_sample_1_0.pdf

Here is Proposition 2 ½ Override info from the Town of West Boylston since the Sterling Select Board lacks the honesty and integrity needed to post such info on the Town of Sterling website.

SEE  https://www.westboylston-ma.gov/home/pages/proposition-2-12-override-questions-and-answers

At the 5 May 2025 Sterling Annual Town Meeting Sterling D.P.W. representatives showed some slide photos. NONE showed any damage to Swett Hill Road. WHAT THEY DID SHOW WAS A STREAM RUNOFF CHANNEL THROUGH SHOLAN PARK AND THE TOWN BEACH INTO EAST WAUSHACUM LAKE/POND.

WELL FOLKS, THAT’S WHAT YOU GET FROM A MAPPED, SEASONAL ‘INTERMITTENT STREAM’ FLOWING THROUGH YOUR PROPERTY DURING PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINS AND SNOWMELT.

ZOOM IN ON THAT AREA USING THIS TOPOGRAPHIC MAP AND VIEW THAT INTERMITTENT STREAM YOUSELVES (blue dashed line)—

https://www.topozone.com/massachusetts/worcester-ma/city/sterling-11/

THAT ‘Intermittent Stream’ has been there since the great glacial ice cap recession from New England occurred 13000 to 14000 years ago.

SO SUDDENLY WE HAVE AN ‘EROSION AND RUNOFF CONTROL’ PROBLEM OVER THERE??? THAT’S BULLSHIT AND WE ALL KNOW IT.

East Waushacum Lake/Pond is on the list of Massachusetts Great Ponds—

https://www.mass.gov/doc/massachusetts-great-ponds-list/download

Massachusetts Great Ponds are owned by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Protecting ‘Great Ponds’ from sediment runoff should be Commonwealth of Massachusetts business, NOT Town of Sterling business to the tune of $800,000.

AS FOR SWETT HILL ROAD, ALL THE STERLING D.P.W. HAS TO DO TO PROTECT IT FROM EXCESSIVE STREAM RUNOFF IS TO INSTALL A LARGER CULVERT UNDER THE ROAD BED AND THEN RAISE THE ROAD BED.

THAT WON’T COST $800,000.

SO, ON 12 MAY 2025 VOTE ‘NO’ ON THAT PROPOSITION 2 ½ OVERRIDE. IT’S BOGUS. YOU CAN BE SURE THAT THE “EAST WAUSHACUM LAKE ASSOCIATION” LOBBIED FOR IT.

J.G.