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Well before the 2021 Sterling Annual Town Meeting, on this Blog, I published a post about the absolutely abominable pro-developer, crony-crafted, hack-drafted, proposed Sterling ‘Earth Removal By-Law’ that was rammed through, about two months later, during the 2021 Sterling Annual Town Meeting. SEE Warrant Article 47– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/advanced-search?keywords=2021+sterling+annual+town+meeting+warrant Not least among its pernicious provisions, that ‘EarthContinue reading “YEAH, BABY!!! THERE IS A 2022 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING CITIZENS’ PETITION WARRANT ARTICLE TO CHANGE THE ABOMINABLE, PRO-DEVELOPER, CRONY-CRAFTED, HACK-DRAFTED ‘EARTH REMOVAL BY-LAW’ RAMMED THROUGH DURING THE 2021 STERLING ANNUAL TOWN MEETING”

In the latest example of Town of Sterling Municipal Building ‘Rule Number 1,’ “INCEST IS BEST,” one David Smith is this year’s uncontested Select Board candidate– https://www.telegram.com/story/news/local/the-item/2022/03/26/one-contested-race-sterling-ballot-planning-board-candidates-needed-offices/7158530001/ David Smith JUST HAPPENS to be the Sterling Treasurer/Tax Collector’s husband– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/treasurer-collector How much you wanna bet that Victoria Smith gets a BIG Fiscal Year 2023 raise???!!! J.G.

Joe Curtin, with a home at 218 Upper North Row Road, Sterling, is Vice-Chair of the Sterling Zoning Board of Appeals a/k/a The Developers’ Doormat. During the 9 March and 13 April 2021 Sterling ZBA meetings the ZBA discussed and voted to approve several 2021 Sterling Annual Town Meeting Warrant Articles that it proposed, includingContinue reading “THE JOE CURTIN STORY– HOW THE STERLING ZBA PUSHED THROUGH ARTICLE 38, “ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT USE,” AT THE 2021 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING AND THE ZBA VICE-CHAIR, MONTHS LATER, GOT A BUILDING PERMIT TO BUILD HIS OWN “ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT” WHILE DODGING THE STATE REQUIREMENT TO HAVE HIS SEPTIC SYSTEM UNDERGO A FULL “TITLE 5 INSPECTION””

That paragon of transparency, that acme of openness, the Sterling Animal Control Advisory Board (ACAB), has not posted any of its Meeting Minutes on the Town Website since 7 June 2021– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/node/2206/minutes-agendas I’m sure that that is a mere oversight–wink, wink– especially since the ‘Bent Buffoon,’ Sterling Select Board member John Kilcoyne, is the ACABContinue reading “STERLING ANIMAL CONTROL ADVISORY BOARD PLANS NEW KENNEL LICENSING BY-LAWS, HASN’T POSTED ITS MEETING MINUTES ON THE TOWN WEBSITE SINCE 7 JUNE 2021”

It’s official, folks, so BEND OVER AND ASSUME THE POSITION! Everett Heller, the whining Finance Committee Chair protected by Select Board members ‘Our Lady of Perpetual Bullsh*t’ Maureen Cranson and ‘Bent Buffoon’ John Kilcoyne from having Finance Committee and Capital Budget Committee meetings broadcast to the public, intends to ram all Sterling taxpayers with aContinue reading “ATTENTION STERLING TAXPAYERS! ASSUME THE POSITION– EVERETT HELLER AND THE FINANCE COMMITTEE WANT TO RAM YOU WITH A 2023 FISCAL YEAR 3% COST OF LIVING INCREASE FOR ALL TOWN EMPLOYEES”

The Sterling Finance Committee, appointed by the Select Board, has not stood up for Sterling’s taxpayers since Larry Pape was its Chair ten (10) and more years ago. He made sure that Town Budgets remained stable, with minimal increases from year to year. When economic times were tough, as they were after the 2008 financialContinue reading “CRANSON AND KILCOYNE VOTE TO SHIELD THEIR APPOINTED FINANCE COMMITTEE TOOLS FROM MANDATORY TV BROADCASTS OF FINANCE COMMITTEE MEETINGS”

In 2016 SIMPSON, STERLING’S BIGGEST SNAKE, got a ‘Special Permit,’ issued by the Sterling Zoning Board of Appeals a/k/a The Developers’ Doormat, to build ‘Cider Hill Estates’ off Redstone Hill Road. That ‘Special Permit’ never should have been granted, of course, there being three (3) abutters’ driveways–not just one–within 150 feet of the ‘Cider HillContinue reading “WATCH THE STERLING ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS A/K/A THE DEVELOPERS’ DOORMAT RESCIND THE “NO-TOUCH” BUFFER ZONE IT IMPOSED ON SIMPSON IN 2016 AS A CONDITION FOR BUILDING ‘CIDER HILL ESTATES’”

Waushacum Avenue in downtown Sterling isn’t much of an ‘avenue.’ It runs a few hundred yards from Main Street to its intersection with Bird Street. From there Newell Hill Road–really the Waushacum Avenue extension–goes up Newell Hill. YET Waushacum Avenue, for those of you who never noticed it, has a relatively new, very impressive yellow-paintedContinue reading “THE STERLING SELECT BOARD, BUILDING UPON ITS SUCCESS IN PAINTING THE WORLD’S SHORTEST, MOST POINTLESS, AND MOST IDIOTIC ‘BIKE LANE’–THE ONE ON WAUSHACUM AVENUE–MOVES TO APPROVE WESTON & SAMPSON’S TRULY INSPIRED MAIN STREET PLANNING PROPOSAL”

During the 2018 Sterling Annual Town Meeting, in order to sell Article 27– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/uploads/atm_warrant_with_budget_4-11-18a.pdf — to the voters present, Select Board members Cranson and Kilcoyne promised that the new ‘Town Planner’ position would terminate once the new Town of Sterling Master Plan was completed. Article 27 then passed. A few months later they hired DomenicaContinue reading “LIARS WASTING MORE OF YOUR TAX DOLLARS. CRANSON AND KILCOYNE GO BACK ON THEIR 2018 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING PLEDGE”