In case you didn’t know it, by law, in Massachusetts towns, Planning Boards, NOT Select Boards, are responsible for preparing Master Plans– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/planning-board In Sterling, however, the unaccountable grandstanding stiffs constituting the Select Board hijacked the Master Plan process more than three (3) years ago and hired the straphangers known as Barrett Planning Group LLCContinue reading “THE STERLING SELECT BOARD’S ‘MASTER PLAN’ BOONDOGGLE– PLANNING BOARD PUTS POSSIBLE PAYMENT MECHANISM ON ITS 18 NOVEMBER 2021 AGENDA”
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SO, DID THE STERLING SELECT BOARD SOMEHOW AGREE AMONGST THEMSELVES TO PICK AND PAY “INTERIM” TOWN ADMINISTRATORS?
The Sterling Select Board’s 10 November 2021 Amended Meeting Agenda contains this line item: “Consider stipends for interim TAs.”https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/agendas/2021_11_10_amended_agenda.pdf So, are the “interim TAs” individuals already picked by the Select Board to act as “interim” Town Administrators? If so, how did the Select Board do that without violating the Massachusetts Open Meeting Law? There isContinue reading “SO, DID THE STERLING SELECT BOARD SOMEHOW AGREE AMONGST THEMSELVES TO PICK AND PAY “INTERIM” TOWN ADMINISTRATORS?”
THE SH*TSHOW EXPLODES!!! CROSS-COMPLAINTS MADE AGAINST ‘OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL BULLSH*T,’ MAUREEN CRANSON, AND TWO OTHERS.
The Item editor, Jan Gottesman, published a lengthy article about the 1 November 2021 Select Board meeting– https://www.telegram.com/story/news/local/the-item/2021/11/02/lawyers-wrestle-over-legality-official-refutes-charges-no-investigation/6243460001/?fbclid=IwAR3jSV59jE-2o_tc4v_D_87lLAynJe3YKWULDVUc__rstARY6KOw-u5Yhrc The article has little logical flow and is disjointed, with quotes and finger-pointing by lawyers and various Municipal Building denizens. In that way it illustrates, in its own way, perfectly, what a TOTAL SH*TSHOW is Sterling’s so-calledContinue reading “THE SH*TSHOW EXPLODES!!! CROSS-COMPLAINTS MADE AGAINST ‘OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL BULLSH*T,’ MAUREEN CRANSON, AND TWO OTHERS.”
MORE ON THE SH*TSHOW– DID TOWN ADMINISTRATOR KELLIE HEBERT COMMIT PROCUREMENT AND PAYROLL VIOLATIONS?
The updated Sterling Select Board Agenda for 1 November 2021 has several interesting items, among them “Procurement” and “Payroll”– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/agendas/2021_11_1_updated_agenda.pdf So, did Town Administrator Kellie Hebert commit procurement and payroll violations when she hired her way-out-town buddy as Municipal Building roof leak “consultant,” ignoring local contractors in the process, and by hiring a telephone answeringContinue reading “MORE ON THE SH*TSHOW– DID TOWN ADMINISTRATOR KELLIE HEBERT COMMIT PROCUREMENT AND PAYROLL VIOLATIONS?”
SELECT BOARD HEARING ON SIMPSON’S ILLEGAL EARTH REMOVAL APPLICATION POSTPONED–AGAIN
The Select Board/Earth Removal Board’s previously scheduled 27 October 2021 hearing on Simpson’s illegal application to remove 18,000 cubic yards of sand/sand & gravel from the 68 Heywood Road property–such an operation being prohibited by the passage of Warrant Article 48 at the 2021 Sterling Annual Town Meeting–has been postponed again — https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/agendas/2021_10_27_amended_agenda.pdf — becauseContinue reading “SELECT BOARD HEARING ON SIMPSON’S ILLEGAL EARTH REMOVAL APPLICATION POSTPONED–AGAIN”
SAY GOODBYE, DOMENICA!!!–THE STERLING SELECT BOARD’S $79,000+/YEAR ALL-PURPOSE ‘GOFER’/FAILED ‘TOWN PLANNER’ RESIGNS, AN ACT OF MERCY FOR ALL STERLING TAXPAYERS
Domenica Tatasciore, the absolute cipher hired by the Select Board thirty-six (36) months ago as so-called ‘Town Planner,’ following passage of the Warrant Article during the May 2018 Annual Town Meeting authorizing the hiring of a Town Planner FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF PRODUCING A NEW TOWN MASTER PLAN, resigned last week, a merciful developmentContinue reading “SAY GOODBYE, DOMENICA!!!–THE STERLING SELECT BOARD’S $79,000+/YEAR ALL-PURPOSE ‘GOFER’/FAILED ‘TOWN PLANNER’ RESIGNS, AN ACT OF MERCY FOR ALL STERLING TAXPAYERS”
LATEST STERLING TOWN GOVERNMENT SH*TSHOW– MUNICIPAL BUILDING CLOSED DUE TO WALK-OUT LAST WEEK, TOWN ADMINSTRATOR ON PAID LEAVE
Here is the report, updated, appearing in the 12 October 2021 Item, Clinton, Massachusetts: https://www.telegram.com/story/news/local/the-item/2021/10/08/sterling-town-administrator-paid-leave-after-discord-town-hall/6054826001/ Kellie Hebert, Sterling Town Administrator for ten (10) months, hired a “consultant,” apparently, at Sterling taxpayer expense, about the Municipal (Butterick) Building roof leak(s), ignoring qualified local contractors in the process. It is not known whether Ms. Hebert followed MassachusettsContinue reading “LATEST STERLING TOWN GOVERNMENT SH*TSHOW– MUNICIPAL BUILDING CLOSED DUE TO WALK-OUT LAST WEEK, TOWN ADMINSTRATOR ON PAID LEAVE”
BLAINE BERSHAD AND ARDEN SONNENBERG, BOTH MEMBERS OF “KEEPING STERLING ACTION COMMITTEE,” ARE IN A BLATANT “FOOD SCRAPS COMPOSTING INITIATIVE” CONFLICT OF INTEREST
“Keeping Sterling Action Committee” is pushing the Sterling D.P.W. hard to locate a food waste composting facility that would take up to 30 tons a day of “regional” food waste–not merely Sterling table scraps– 1000 feet behind the Sterling Police Department and close to Bartlet’s Pond and Wekepeke Brook, South Branch. In the September 2021Continue reading “BLAINE BERSHAD AND ARDEN SONNENBERG, BOTH MEMBERS OF “KEEPING STERLING ACTION COMMITTEE,” ARE IN A BLATANT “FOOD SCRAPS COMPOSTING INITIATIVE” CONFLICT OF INTEREST”
STOP THE STERLING D.P.W.’S PROPOSED UP-TO-30-TON-PER-DAY ROTTEN-FOOD-WASTE “REGIONAL” COMMERCIAL COMPOSTING FACILITY TO BE SITED BEHIND THE POLICE STATION
The following was posted by Rich Defuria on Facebook: “I have not spoken on this local issue in a while.But this issue should be on every resident’s radar, because it impacts our quality of life in Sterling: a Regional Food Waste Composting project proposed to be built behind the Sterling Police Station.I encourage you allContinue reading “STOP THE STERLING D.P.W.’S PROPOSED UP-TO-30-TON-PER-DAY ROTTEN-FOOD-WASTE “REGIONAL” COMMERCIAL COMPOSTING FACILITY TO BE SITED BEHIND THE POLICE STATION”
STERLING D.P.W., WITHOUT A TOWN-WIDE SURVEY, OPTS FOR “SINGLE-STREAM” TRASH PICK-UP, WITH CRAM-DOWN OF ONE (1) 64 GALLON TRASH BARREL PER FAMILY, AND A NEW MACK TRUCK, CONTRARY TO CASELLA’S RECOMMENDATION
Go to the Town of Sterling website and you will see huge gaps in the Sterling D.P.W. Board’s posted Meeting Minutes. Massachusetts’ “New” Public Records Law advises that town board and committee meeting minutes be posted on town websites. Until I filed an “Open Meeting Law” complaint this week–without, unfortunately, referring to the “New” PublicContinue reading “STERLING D.P.W., WITHOUT A TOWN-WIDE SURVEY, OPTS FOR “SINGLE-STREAM” TRASH PICK-UP, WITH CRAM-DOWN OF ONE (1) 64 GALLON TRASH BARREL PER FAMILY, AND A NEW MACK TRUCK, CONTRARY TO CASELLA’S RECOMMENDATION”
STERLING, MASSACHUSETTS, OVERWATCH 