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SELECT BOARD TO NAME ITS $79,559/YEAR ‘GOFER,’ DOMENICA TATASCIORE, AS “INTERIM DEPARTMENT HEAD FOR THE INSPECTIONAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT”

THE MAY 2018 STERLING ANNUAL TOWN MEETING AUTHORIZED THE HIRING OF A TOWN PLANNER, TO PREPARE A NEW TOWN MASTER PLAN, ONLY In response to out-loud representations made by the Select Board during the May 2018 Sterling Annual Town Meeting the voters then present authorized the hiring of a Town Planner for the SOLE PURPOSEContinue reading “SELECT BOARD TO NAME ITS $79,559/YEAR ‘GOFER,’ DOMENICA TATASCIORE, AS “INTERIM DEPARTMENT HEAD FOR THE INSPECTIONAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT””

AT THE 2021 STERLING ANNUAL TOWN MEETING 100-110 SHEEPLE SHOWED UP AND GAVE IT TO THEMSELVES AND EVERYONE ELSE IN TOWN “GOOD AND HARD”

Massachusetts citizenry, for the most part, have devolved from April 1775 Revolutionary spirit, the “shot heard ’round the world”, and Revolutionary War doggedness, to their current much-reduced status as government-official-following herd “sheeple,” an accurate term devised many years ago by, I believe, Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr. The New England Town Meeting form of governmentContinue reading “AT THE 2021 STERLING ANNUAL TOWN MEETING 100-110 SHEEPLE SHOWED UP AND GAVE IT TO THEMSELVES AND EVERYONE ELSE IN TOWN “GOOD AND HARD””

STERLING SELECT BOARD, PLANNING BOARD, AND ZBA REPROBATES NOW ABUSING “CONSENT CALENDAR” PROCEDURE

Long-time Sterling resident Peter Monaghan kindly reminded me that the Town Meeting “Consent Calendar” procedure was intended and formerly used to speed through for approval only relatively minor and mundane Annual Town Meeting Warrant Articles. A tip of the hat to him. For a good example of such previously employed “Consent Calendar” methodology see theContinue reading “STERLING SELECT BOARD, PLANNING BOARD, AND ZBA REPROBATES NOW ABUSING “CONSENT CALENDAR” PROCEDURE”

TOWN OF CLINTON MOOCHES OFF STERLING TAXPAYERS–APPROXIMATELY ONE-THIRD (1/3) OF STERLING AMBULANCE RUNS ARE FOR CLINTON RESIDENTS

Reliable sources report that approximately one-third (1/3) of Sterling Fire Department ambulance runs are for Clinton residents because the Sterling Fire Department has Paramedics whereas the Clinton Fire Department’s unionized lesser-qualified EMT semi-lay-abouts declined to get Paramedic certification despite being told to do so by the Clinton Select Board. Paramedics can administer medications and performContinue reading “TOWN OF CLINTON MOOCHES OFF STERLING TAXPAYERS–APPROXIMATELY ONE-THIRD (1/3) OF STERLING AMBULANCE RUNS ARE FOR CLINTON RESIDENTS”

THE STERLING SELECT BOARD’S ONGOING EFFORTS TO STEAL MARYANNE MACLEOD’S DRIVEWAY, AND OTHER RELATED DISHONESTY

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND RELEVANT DEED LANGUAGE In or about 1929 the only farmhouse on Swett Hill Road (then Sweat Hill Road) burned down. Thereafter, the Town of Sterling abandoned Swett Hill Road as a public way. SEE https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXIV/Chapter82/Section32A Rights to use that abandoned way thereafter, in the event of a dispute by or among otherContinue reading “THE STERLING SELECT BOARD’S ONGOING EFFORTS TO STEAL MARYANNE MACLEOD’S DRIVEWAY, AND OTHER RELATED DISHONESTY”

THIRTY (30) MONTHS AND COUNTING–WE STILL DON’T HAVE A NEW TOWN OF STERLING MASTER PLAN BUT THE SELECT BOARD HAS A $75,000/YEAR ‘GOFER’ AT STERLING TAXPAYER EXPENSE

During the May 2018 Annual Town Meeting voters approved Warrant Article 27 and the hiring of a Town Planner to prepare a new Town of Sterling Master Plan. That was the Select Board’s sole expressed purpose for such hiring. Note that I moved to limit the new Town Planner to a one (1) year termContinue reading “THIRTY (30) MONTHS AND COUNTING–WE STILL DON’T HAVE A NEW TOWN OF STERLING MASTER PLAN BUT THE SELECT BOARD HAS A $75,000/YEAR ‘GOFER’ AT STERLING TAXPAYER EXPENSE”