Stubbs the cat, mayor of a small town in Alaska, has passed away.
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There is no human mayor in the town.
Lately, the elderly cat had been keeping close to home, but in his younger years, he was known as a cat-about-town–usually meowing up a storm at Nagley’s General Store.
And while it’s sad that Stubbs has passed, another kitten in might be ready to take up the mayoral mantle.
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“Amazingly, Denali has the exact personality as Stubbs,” the family wrote of the kitten. “He loves the attention. He’s like a little puppy when he’s around people. We couldn’t have asked for a better understudy than Denali — he really has followed in Stubbs’ paw prints in just about everything.”