Motives

Ms. Strangeworth's motivation to spread lies was to keep everyone under her control. She said that it was her town and if someone was trouble, she ought to know about it. Ms. Strangeworth also said how there was so much evil in people, even in a charming little town like hers, and how it was her duty to keep her town alert as long as evil existed unchecked in the world. I think she's using this method to keep control because it keeps people weak by making their heads full of lies or having them not wanting their "secrets" to get out.