Here’s the story as published by The Item, Clinton, MA– https://www.telegram.com/story/news/local/the-item/2021/06/28/sterling-board-reorganization-does-not-take-traditional-turn/5330979001/ The dissembling, manipulative, underhanded, game-playing, power-hungry duo, Cranson and Kilcoyne, want to continue running Sterling Town Government as the mini-Banana Republic they organized. It’s way past time to take them both out. Unfortunately, neither had an opponent to their re-elections. Stay tuned. J.G.
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THE 104 LAKESHORE DRIVE EXTENSION OWNER/OCCUPANT’S APPLICATION TO THE STERLING Z.B.A. FOR A “SPECIAL PERMIT”–REMEMBERING THE 55 LAKESHORE DRIVE “SPECIAL PERMIT” CARNIVAL OF ILLEGALITIES
The Sterling Zoning Board of Appeals (Z.B.A.) has scheduled a public hearing on the 104 Lakeshore Drive Extension Owner/Occupant’s Application for a “Special Permit” “to allow for the extension, alteration, or change to a pre-existing non-conforming structure for the purposes of building a Single Family House” on that lot. That lot and surrounding parcels canContinue reading “THE 104 LAKESHORE DRIVE EXTENSION OWNER/OCCUPANT’S APPLICATION TO THE STERLING Z.B.A. FOR A “SPECIAL PERMIT”–REMEMBERING THE 55 LAKESHORE DRIVE “SPECIAL PERMIT” CARNIVAL OF ILLEGALITIES”
ANOTHER LAYER OF EXPENSIVE BUREAUCRATIC BULLSH*T ON THE WAY???–SELECT BOARD TO DISCUSS ESTABLISHING “LAND USE & PERMITTING DEPARTMENT”
The Sterling Select Board’s 23 June 2021 Agenda (amended twice) includes this item: “Discuss the establishment of a Land Use & Permitting Department”– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/agendas/2021_6_23_agenda3.pdf Just what Sterling, a Town of 7800 people, needs!–another layer of bureaucrat payroll patriots inside the Municipal Building, at taxpayer expense, pretending to perform useful tasks while really scrounging make-work andContinue reading “ANOTHER LAYER OF EXPENSIVE BUREAUCRATIC BULLSH*T ON THE WAY???–SELECT BOARD TO DISCUSS ESTABLISHING “LAND USE & PERMITTING DEPARTMENT””
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””
TOWN MEETING WARRANT ARTICLE 38–THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS SPONSORS INCREASED POPULATION DENSITY ACROSS STERLING DESPITE THE TOWN’S PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY SHORTAGE
While the Town suffers from a public water supply shortage its Zoning Board of Appeals is busy promoting increased population density across Sterling by means of Town Meeting Warrant Article 38, “ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT USE,” that would replace the existing Sterling Protective (Zoning) By-Law provisions for “Accessory Apartment Use[s],” including the requirement that such anContinue reading “TOWN MEETING WARRANT ARTICLE 38–THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS SPONSORS INCREASED POPULATION DENSITY ACROSS STERLING DESPITE THE TOWN’S PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY SHORTAGE”
LATEST U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SURFICIAL MATERIALS (GEOLOGY) MAPS MORE THAN SUPPORT PRESENT NORTH STERLING/WEKEPEKE AQUIFER PROTECTION ZONE BOUNDARIES–VOTE DOWN WARRANT ARTICLE 46
The present North Sterling Aquifer Protection Zone Overlay Map– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/file/file/part15.pdf — corresponds exactly with the Massachusetts DEP Zone II Wellhead Protection Map for that area– http://maps.massgis.state.ma.us/images/dep/omv/wspviewer.htm Click on the ‘hand’ symbol, move that map on your screen, then ‘zoom’ into Pratt Junction to see the area cross-hatched in lavender/purple. The latest U.S. Geological Survey SurficialContinue reading “LATEST U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SURFICIAL MATERIALS (GEOLOGY) MAPS MORE THAN SUPPORT PRESENT NORTH STERLING/WEKEPEKE AQUIFER PROTECTION ZONE BOUNDARIES–VOTE DOWN WARRANT ARTICLE 46”
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”
TWO PRO-TAXPAYER ARTICLES–NOS. 52 AND 53–ON THE STERLING ANNUAL TOWN MEETING WARRANT, SO SHOW UP AND VOTE FOR THEM
Our “Profiles in Courage” Select Board waited until the last day permitted–7 June 2021–under Mass. Gen. Laws Ch. 39, Sec. 10, before posting the Warrant for this year’s 14 June 2021 Sterling Annual Town Meeting. Despite the fact that they are shameless, nevertheless I assume that they are somewhat embarrassed by it. They should be.Continue reading “TWO PRO-TAXPAYER ARTICLES–NOS. 52 AND 53–ON THE STERLING ANNUAL TOWN MEETING WARRANT, SO SHOW UP AND VOTE FOR THEM”
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”
STERLING, MASSACHUSETTS, OVERWATCH 