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Jim Gettens

Ladies and Gentlemen,

My original Blog is Sterling, Massachusetts, Overwatch, hosted by WordPress, and you can visit that site to view hundreds of postings I've made there in the past few years. Unfortunately, my WordPress login has frozen and WordPress 'Happiness Engineers' have no idea what is wrong or how to fix that problem. Therefore, I have inaugurated Sterling, Massachusetts, Overwatch--NEW on this site hosted by "Ghost." I have to get used to it so I can navigate its features.

Stay tuned!

J.G.

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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