I am not familiar with this area, but generally in Appalachia something like that will go over about as well as a lead balloon. I have noticed certain rural communities that, for whatever reason, become the darling of the liberal "art" community and they turn it into a deep blue outpost in overwhelmingly red areas. Not knowing anything else about this place, I would imagine something like that is going on.
State law should preempt much of what they're attempting, particularly the "on county controlled property" thing.
But IDP is absolutely right. They won't ever stop, won't ever just come to accept that people disagree with them. It's their way or the unmarked grave for you. All of them are every bit as totalitarian as that suggests too. Just because a current crop of Leftists aren't actively using the bulldozers to shove bodies into open pits doesn't mean they don't harbor the will and the desire to do so. Their ideological bedfellows demonstrated this innumerable times throughout the 20th century.