Protect the cheese press!

The town of Cheshire, Massachusetts, home of a cheese press sculpture, requested a grant to buy a new fire truck for the volunteer fire department. (Why a cheese press sculpture? Why to commemorate the 1,450 pounds of cheese town elders once gave Thomas Jefferson, of course.)

Instead of what they asked for, they got a huge Homeland Security grant. But it can't be used to purchase a fire truck.

Story here.