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, haveContinue reading “LET’S EXAMINE THE LIES AND FALSEHOODS SET FORTH ON THE STERLING PLANNING BOARD’S ‘MBTA ZONING’ WEBPAGE, SHALL WE?”
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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,Continue reading “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”
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 theContinue reading “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”
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 atContinue reading “2025 HOLDEN TOWN MEETING VOTERS, DISPLAYING INTELLIGENCE AND RESOLVE, VOTE DOWN BOGUS MBTA ZONING”
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 aContinue reading “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”
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, “TheContinue reading “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”
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 onContinue reading “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”
STOP THE OUT-OF-CONTROL STERLING D.P.W.’S PROPOSITION 2 ½ PROPERTY TAX OVERRIDES—VOTE DOWN 2025 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING WARRANT ARTICLES 25 AND 26 AND NIP THIS CRAP IN THE BUD
Folks, there will be TWO (2) Proposition 2 ½ property tax override votes as part of the Town of Sterling’s 12 May 2025 TOWN ELECTION— —UNLESS STERLING ANNUAL TOWN MEETING VOTERS SHOOT DOWN WARRANT ARTICLES 25 AND 26 FIRST IN ORDER TO PRESERVE SOME OF THEIR HARD-EARNED MONEY FROM STERLING D.P.W. DEPREDATIONS. Annual Town MeetingContinue reading “STOP THE OUT-OF-CONTROL STERLING D.P.W.’S PROPOSITION 2 ½ PROPERTY TAX OVERRIDES—VOTE DOWN 2025 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING WARRANT ARTICLES 25 AND 26 AND NIP THIS CRAP IN THE BUD”
STOP THE STERLING PLANNING BOARD’S BRAZEN, DISHONEST, MALICIOUS, DANGEROUS POWER GRAB—VOTE DOWN 2025 STERLING ANNUAL TOWN MEETING WARRANT ARTICLE 40
Under existing Sterling Zoning By-Laws governing “Site Plan Review” is this sub-section: § 301-6.4.8. Regulations. The Planning Board may adopt and from time to time amend reasonable regulations for the administration of these site plan guidelines. THAT SUB-SECTION PROVIDES THAT THE PLANNING BOARD MAY, ON ITS OWN, ADOPT REASONABLE, INTERNAL, HOUSEKEEPING REGULATIONS FOR HANDLING SITE PLANContinue reading “STOP THE STERLING PLANNING BOARD’S BRAZEN, DISHONEST, MALICIOUS, DANGEROUS POWER GRAB—VOTE DOWN 2025 STERLING ANNUAL TOWN MEETING WARRANT ARTICLE 40”
COME ON OUT TO THE 5 MAY 2025 STERLING ANNUAL TOWN MEETING AND VOTE DOWN WARRANT ARTICLE 39, THE PLANNING BOARD’S DELIBERATE, PERNICIOUS, ASS-BACKWARDS POWER GRAB
The Sterling Planning Board, Chaired by self-dealing developer weasel Carl Corrinne, has put Article 39 on the 2025 Sterling Annual Town Meeting Warrant. ARTICLE 39 IS A NAKED POWER GRAB INTENDED TO REVERSE THE CURRENT PLANNING BOARD SITE PLAN APPROVAL AND ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS SPECIAL PERMIT APPROVAL PROCESS/ORDER BY FORCING THE ZBA TO APPROVEContinue reading “COME ON OUT TO THE 5 MAY 2025 STERLING ANNUAL TOWN MEETING AND VOTE DOWN WARRANT ARTICLE 39, THE PLANNING BOARD’S DELIBERATE, PERNICIOUS, ASS-BACKWARDS POWER GRAB”
