Can it really be the death of a small town....

I have been working in Pennington for about eight months now, and up until a week or so ago, it has been fairly uneventful in the way of "BAD" news.

Last week, it was two armed robberies in two days, today it is a bomb threat at the high school.

What the heck is going on?
What has changed?

I am not really sure. I guess it could be that the holidays are stressing people out and they are reaching their breaking point?

What ever it is, I hope, for the sake of the town's residents, that the trend comes to an end.