Tag Archives: Sterling MA Town Government

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”

The Sterling Select Board has scheduled an ‘Executive Session’ for 25 January 2022 to “discuss strategy with respect to litigation–Town vs Hebert.” SEE https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/agendas/2022_1_25_agenda_.pdf The Select Board hired Kellie Hebert to be Town Administrator. She lasted about ten (10) months. She was jettisoned under murky circumstances after word leaked out that she had retained anContinue reading “STERLING SELECT BOARD-KELLIE HEBERT SH*TSHOW SAGA CONTINUES. SELECT BOARD ‘EXECUTIVE SESSION’ ON FOR 25 JANUARY 2022”

Karen Packard, Realtor, with new offices on Route 140 in Sterling’s existing “Performance Zone 1”–her husband operates “Sterling Greenery” across the road–appeared before the Sterling Planning Board pro-development hacks–two of its members, Corrinne and Pruneau, are developers!– in December 2021 to discuss that “Performance Zone.” She will appear before them on 27 January 2022 toContinue reading “KAREN PACKARD, REALTOR, CONTINUES TO APPEAR BEFORE THE STERLING PLANNING BOARD PRO-DEVELOPMENT HACKS TO DISCUSS THE EXISTING ROUTE 140 “PERFORMANCE ZONE 1.” BEWARE OF ANOTHER MOVE TO RE-ZONE THAT AREA TO “COMMERCIAL””