makes my small town nutcase look almost sane in comparison!
Where I live the weekly news publication covers a group of towns (The Hilltowns) in Western Mass.
There's been a longtime fight between one lady and a guy (via letters) that gets somewhat weird, but not as crazy as yours.
It's always either politics or religion with these two. Sometimes both at the same time.
Also, there's another town where a group of witches had started a small business some years ago that's taken off and become quite a booming enterprise.
http://www.beltanehill.com/
Some residents embrace the witch culture
Some don't, but they're not real vocal about it in public for fear that the witches will retaliate in some way (by putting spells on them? turning them into toads? who knows...)
anyway, yeah, living in a small town (about 1300 in mine) definitely isn't boring, and people find out a lot about each other through the grapevine that is the Town Dump. Wednesdays and Saturdays are social events here. 
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