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ARROGANT, OUT OF CONTROL STERLING D.P.W. PRICKS BELIEVE THAT STERLING TAXPAYERS/VOTERS WILL SWALLOW A RE-PACKAGED 28,000 SQUARE FOOT GARAGE MAHAL /TRUCK PALACE AKIN TO THE TOWN OF NORWOOD'S (POPULATION 31,611)

So the tag-along doormats constituting the Sterling Finance Committee and Capital Budget Committee had another joint meeting on 15 January 2026 during which the Sterling D.P.W. Garage Mahal/Truck Palace Boondoggle was discussed in its apparent repackaged form. You can watch/listen to the discussion beginning at 1:

By Jim Gettens

THE PAYROLL-BLOATED, SUB-STANDARD WACHUSETT REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT FORCES HOLDEN, PAXTON, AND RUTLAND INTO MAY 2026 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING PROPOSITION 2 ½ OVERRIDE VOTES

Anyone with half a brain saw this WRSD-caused financial disaster coming for years. While WRSD total student enrollment plummeted by more than 1000--14.5%– from Fiscal Year 2010 to now, the feckless patronage-cycling hacks constituting the WRSD Administration and District Committee kept hiring unneeded personnel, bloating the ranks of mau-mauing

By Jim Gettens

PRINCETON AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM INSTRUCTOR- GROOMER PERVERT POSSESSED SEXUALLY EXPLICIT PHOTOGRAPHS OF AT LEAST ONE CHILD HE KNEW, SHOT HIMSELF DURING POLICE SEARCH WARRANT RAID

John Buffington, age 67, was hired by the Town of Princeton Recreation Department as an after-school program instructor in “woodworking, kite-making, and primitive skills.” Officials were tipped off that he possessed child pornography. He possessed sexually explicit photographs of at least one child he knew. He committed suicide during a

By Jim Gettens

THE WACHUSETT REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, A DYSFUNCTIONAL MONEY PIT, DESPITE RENEWING “SCHOOL CHOICE” FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR, CONTINUES ITS TOTAL STUDENT ENROLLMENT SLIDE AND DROPS ANOTHER 130 SINCE LAST YEAR

The WRSD is a dysfunctional money pit run by dishonest ‘Woke’ incompetents. Despite the WRSD Committee renewing ‘School Choice’ for this 2025-2026 fiscal year—encouraging students from neighboring school districts to enroll in the WRSD rather than their home districts—in a blatantly transparent attempt to boost WRSD enrollment numbers

By Jim Gettens

BAD NEWS FOR THE WACHUSETT REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT LGBTQ BRAINWASHING GROOMER PERVERTS—LEXINGTON DAD OBTAINS FEDERAL COURT PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION AGAINST LEXINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS PROTECTING HIS KINDERGARTENER SON FROM EXPOSURE TO LGBTQ PROPAGANDA

Thanks to the June 2025 LANDMARK U.S. Supreme Court “Opt Out” decision in Mahmoud vs. Taylor-- https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-297_4f14.pdf -- a Lexington Dad has obtained a Boston Federal Court preliminary injunction against the Lexington Public Schools, thereby protecting his kindergartener son from LGBTQ

By Jim Gettens

THE STERLING FIRST CHURCH GOVERNANCE BOARD, SUFFERING FROM TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME (TDS), ISSUES ITS 2026 COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

WELL FOLKS, appearing in the 1 January 2026 The Landmark– https://www.thelandmark.com/ — is the Sterling First Church Lefty Governance Board’s 2026 Communist Manifesto, also posted on the Sterling First Church Facebook page. It is reproduced below. That Governance Board, spewing out unsubstantiated generalities, suffers from an obvious

By Jim Gettens

MEMO TO THE ABSOLUTELY F#CKING CLUELESS STERLING FINANCE COMMITTEE AND D.P.W. BOARD: NO, STERLING TAXPAYERS WILL NOT VOTE $25 MILLION, OR EVEN $16 MILLION, FOR A STERLING D.P.W. ‘GARAGE MAHAL LITE’

On 18 December 2025 the absolutely clueless, delusional Sterling Finance Committee met and discussed the 9 December 2025 Sterling D.P.W. Facilities Committee’s so-called ‘Charette’ ( https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/charette )—the 2 hour and 15 minute discussion during which commission-hungry Weston & Sampson Engineering parasites presented various

By Jim Gettens