50 Hilarious Bits Of Small-Town Gossip That May Make You Regret Living In The Big City

Two places make dill dip. One accused the other of stealing the recipe

Thousands of crabs washed ashore dead but nobody really knows why, I think they blamed wind turbines at one point.
Dogs are now getting really sick and there’s warnings for people to stay away from the beach but nobody knows why it’s happening.

About a year ago my hometowns favorite eating establishment burnt down. Lotta people pooled money to get him a new spot. A failing car salesman converted his place to a restaurant and partnered with the beloved restaurant owner. Business was thriving, food was fantastic and it was THE place to get food. The failing car salesman was talking and then some to the local bicycle behind his wife's back and was giving her free drinks and the two would stay at the place way beyond closing time. One of her kids went on her phone and was scrolling and found nudes on her phone of car salesman. The kid sent it to his friends and the friends sent it to even more people. Now basically the entire town has seen this red headed man nude wearing cowboy boots. Beloved restaurant owner quit and business is no longer booming because he has no cook. Car salesman is getting a divorce and closing the restaurant and this happened only 4 days ago.

Edit 1: Wow! Thank you everyone for the upvotes! This post has more upvotes than the population of my hometown (1.7k)

Edit 2: sorry for the confusion regarding local bicycle. I told this story as if it's to someone in my town who would just understand so that's on me. Reddit we gotta talk, a lot of you are trying to stand up for this lass, good on you, but she's a lady with 21 kids with 19 different lads and all but 4 have a reputation in the town. The 4 that don't are because the fathers have full custody of them. She's really not a very redeemable character in this situation.

Edit 3: a few asked for the photo to be uploaded and what the heck!? Lol you guys are wild!

Edit 4: so the beloved restaurant owner left the car salesmans restaurant partnership because of this fiasco. Some say there was some tension about how the business was ran and some say there was tension because he was cheating on his wife.

Status Update: the latest rumor off the old grape vine says the restaurant owner got a killer deal from the local real estate guy and will renovate an old closed business downtown into his new restaurant! Fingers crossed because he really knows his stuff.

So this one has been ongoing for a while, but... The Nutcrackers.

My hometown (where I no longer live, but still have family so I keep apprised of local matters) has decided, in a bizarre bid to increase tourism, to become The Nutcracker Town.

The reason? An older woman donated her nutcracker collection to the historical society. Something like 2,500 nutcrackers. I think because her kids told her flat out they would dispose of them after she died if she did not make alternate arrangements.

So, the town decided, well, they had all these nutcrackers on display. This could be good for tourism. We could be known for something.

People were bewildered and predictably upset. A lot of townsfolk don't *want* to be the nutcracker town. All the local businesses have been pressured to buy these giant expensive cardboard nutcrackers from the local print shop. They are *terrifying.*

There's been general outcry. Facebook groups, the whole nine yards. And still the town persists. Still there are these hollow-eyed giant cartoonish cardboard nutcrackers everywhere you look.

Edit: Someone guessed it, so I have effectively triangulated myself (internet safety fail 101). If you want to see some local news on the subject, [look no further.](https://www.keloland.com/news/eye-on-keloland/history-center-hopes-to-have-more-nutcrackers-than-people-in-luverne/)

Edit 2: Okay, since many people have asked (and not everyone can access the news sites), I've attempted to upload a picture of [the cardboard nutcrackers.](https://i.imgur.com/lVQ9zUd.jpg) Let me know if it doesn't work and I'll give it another go!

yall have like decent answers and in my small a*s uk village it is legit just this person being villager of the year for the 7th year in a row

In my town there was an empty building that is being built into a bar and nightclub. Across the street is a church and the church is p****d and trying to stir up everyone by protesting a bar so close to their church building.

All the new infrastructure is centered on sports. No renovations for the library, no place where we could have decent stage for shows and theatre, no nature park, only skating rinks and baseball and tennis courts.

Local mcdonalds wants to build a drive thru, some people are dead against it, but others think its long overdue as the mcdonalds is always crowded. The people against believe it'd ruin the character of the area. I'm not sure where I stand.

The town just spent a LOT of people's tax dollars to create a new logo and slogan.

The logo? It's an Satellite image of the town with the main roads of the square being highlighted to look like a tic tac toe board.

It's seriously a BIG controversy right now, because anyone with Google earth and Ms-Paint could've made it.

Edit: People have been asking for the link. Here you go!

https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/politics/monticello-gets-new-logo-slogan-close-to-everything-far-from-everyday/article_bd4b9e48-0ee4-5fca-85a9-9f3354e23e43.html

3 kids stole s**t from the local shop, werent even wearing covid masks so we have perfect pictures of them