The feline and canine shopkeeps of Mass Street businesses have long attracted customers like flies to honey, but it would appear that downtown now shares an unofficial, more odorous mammalian mascot: a skunk. The creatures appear to be striped skunks, or Mephitis mephitis. The adults — sometimes with kits toddling in tow — have been reported nosing around, and caught red-handed on security cameras, scampering past Jody’s Market.
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