Category Archives: Cronyism Fraud Waste Abuse

YEP, Kirsten Newman, California Blow-In, and Blaine Bershad, both reflexive tax-and-spenders and members of the Sterling DemocRAT Town Committee (of course!), are running unopposed for re-election to the Sterling Select Board and the D.P.W. Board, respectively. Incompetent and insufferable Kirsten Newman, and her husband, Eric, the latter being Vice-Chair of the Planning Board, are moreContinue reading “STERLING WASTE RECYCLING: STERLING DemocRAT  TOWN COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND REFLEXIVE TAX-AND-SPENDERS, KIRSTEN NEWMAN AND BLAINE BERSHAD, RUN UNOPPOSED FOR RE-ELECTION TO THE SELECT BOARD AND D.P.W. BOARD, RESPECTIVELY”

WELL FOLKS, it should come as NO SURPRISE WHATSOEVER that Weston & Sampson Engineers, Inc., an exorbitant outfit expert at ABSOLUTELY SCREWING TAXPAYERS ACROSS MASSACHUSETTS, hired by Sterling Town Government’s callous, stupid, incompetent, groupthink, go-along, lemming, tax-and-spend ASSHOLES to design Sterling’s proposed, re-packaged $25,535,000 twenty-eight thousand (28,000) square foot Garage Mahal Truck Palace Boondoggle atContinue reading “GEE, WHAT COINCIDENCES!!! THE EXORBITANT WESTON & SAMPSON ENGINEERS, INC. RACKET WAS ON THE HOLDEN D.P.W. GARAGE MAHAL TRUCK PALACE AND THE NORWOOD GARAGE MAHAL TRUCK PALACE, BOTH TOUTED AS EXAMPLES FOR US TO FOLLOW BY THE STERLING D.P.W.’S CALLOUS, ARROGANT, OUT-OF-CONTROL, BENT ASSHOLES. CHECK OUT SOME OTHER ‘COINCIDENCES’ TOO”

FOLKS, the Town of Marion, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, population 5347, and having 26.1 square miles, just opened–in February 2026—its BRAND NEW 14,400 SQUARE FOOT D.P.W. BUILDING AT A COST OF $5.2 MILLION, OR $361 PER SQUARE FOOT. IN FACT, IT CAME IN UNDER BUDGET! SEE: https://news.jgpr.net/2026/02/17/town-of-marion-unveils-new-dpw-operations-building-with-ribbon-cutting-and-tours/  SCROLL DOWN TO SEE ALL THE PHOTOS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion,_Massachusetts SterlingContinue reading “TOWN OF MARION, MASSACHUSETTS, POPULATION 5347, AND 26.1 SQUARE MILES, JUST OPENED ITS BRAND NEW 14,400 SQUARE FOOT D.P.W. FACILITY AT A COST OF $5.2 MILLION, OR $361 PER SQUARE FOOT. STERLING’S D.P.W. BOARD, SELECT BOARD, AND FINANCE COMMITTEE ASSHOLES WANT A D.P.W. GARAGE MAHAL BOONDOGGLE OF 28,000 SQUARE FEET FOR $25,535,000, OR $912 PER SQUARE FOOT”

FOLKS, did you really need any additional proof that Sterling’s Planning Board, Chaired by walking conflict of interest, self-dealing, self-serving developer weasel Carl Corrinne, is collection of arrogant dopes? Well, whether or not you did here it is in the form of Columbia St, LLC’s Massachusetts Land Court Complaint challenging the City of Cambridge’s so-calledContinue reading “STERLING’S ARROGANT PLANNING BOARD DOPES PUSH THEIR PROPOSED “INCLUSIONARY ZONING” BY-LAW AT THE SAME TIME “INCLUSIONARY ZONING” FACES CONSTITUTIONAL LAW CHALLENGES IN THE MASSACHUSETTS LAND COURT”

FOLKS, above is the header I used for the following 2 March 2026 email I sent to the Town Administrator, copies to the Select Board twits and the Building Commissioner. UNFORTUNATELY this WordPress format did not allow me to transfer the red text referred to so below I inserted [Existing Text] instead. Mr. Caldwell,  Continue reading “MORE HARMFUL BULLSHIT PROPOSED BY THE STERLING PLANNING BOARD– MAKING THE ZONING BY-LAW DEFINITION OF “STRUCTURE” VAGUE, AMBIGUOUS, AND AMORPHOUS, THEREBY PROMOTING DEVELOPMENT ENCROACHMENT ON ABUTTERS’ LOT LINES”

FOLKS, if you watched the 26 February 2026 joint Finance Committee-Capital Budget Committee meeting on Sterling-Lancaster Community TV you would have learned that for the next Fiscal Year’s proposed budget Town officials have spent to within $12,000 of our Town’s Proposition 2 ½ levy limit, meaning that we avoided a Proposition 2 ½ Override VoteContinue reading “AN ACROSS-THE-BOARD DISGRACE. STERLING’S FECKLESS, GUTLESS, INCOMPETENT, FISCALLY IRRESPONSIBLE OFFICIALS SPEND TO WITHIN $12,000 OF OUR TOWN’S PROPOSITION 2 ½ LEVY LIMIT AND PLAY SHELL GAMES USING WHAT’S LEFT OF ‘FREE CASH,’ THE STABILIZATION FUND, AND THE CAPITAL INVESTMENT FUND”

If you thought that ANY Town of Sterling Board, Committee, or Department gives a rat’s ass about YOU, THE TAXPAYERS, YOU’D BE ABSOLUTELY WRONG. Just before the joint Sterling Finance Committee-Capital Budget Committee 26 February 2026 meeting wrapped up Select Board member/pernicious dope Maureen “Our Lady of Perpetual Bullshit” Cranson, sitting in the audience alongContinue reading “THE STERLING FINANCE COMMITTEE, CAPITAL BUDGET COMMITTEE, SELECT BOARD, AND D.P.W. BOARD AGREE ON A PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN TO PUSH APPROVAL OF THE OUTRAGEOUS, RE-PACKAGED D.P.W. GARAGE MAHAL BOONDOGGLE AT $25,535,000 FOR 28,000 SQUARE FEET, OR $912 PER SQUARE FOOT, A HIGHER PER-SQUARE-FOOT COST THAN THE ORIGINAL D.P.W. BOONDOGGLE PROPOSAL SHOT DOWN AT THE 13 NOVEMBER 2025 SPECIAL TOWN MEETING”

HEY ALL OF YOU SILLY STERLING PROPERTY TAXPAYERS. I BET YOU THOUGHT THAT STERLING TOWN OFFICIALS, INCLUDING THE SELECT BOARD, THE D.P.W. BOARD, THE TOWN ADMINISTRATOR, AND THE D.P.W. SUPERINTENDENT SELECTED THE VERTEX COMPANIES, LLC TO BE THE STERLING D.P.W. GARAGE MAHAL PROJECT MANAGER AFTER A THOROUGH, COMPREHENSIVE, OBJECTIVE STATE-WIDE SEARCH FOR THE MOST COMPETENTContinue reading “HMMM, HAVE YOU BEEN WONDERING HOW VERTEX GOT THE STERLING D.P.W. GARAGE MAHAL TRUCK PALACE PROJECT MANAGEMENT CONTRACT??? WELL, PLEASE MEET STEPHEN P. THERAN, VERTEX SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER, WHO JUST HAPPENS TO RESIDE AT 19 HARDSCRABBLE ROAD, STERLING, HIS 7.63 ACRE COMPOUND ASSESSED AT $1,266,200. NOW WE STERLING TAXPAYERS ARE HELPING TO PAY HIS STERLING PROPERTY TAXES”

Sterling folks have been wondering why Weston & Sampson Engineering keeps getting Sterling Town Government contracts to the apparent exclusion of other engineering firms. It’s a curious phenomenon, is it not??? Doesn’t look like a fair, level playing field, does it??? Well, turns out that Weston & Sampson advertises various services such as the following,Continue reading “HMM, HAVE YOU BEEN WONDERING WHY WESTON & SAMPSON ENGINEERING KEEPS GETTING STERLING TOWN GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS??? WELL CHECK THIS OUT!!!”