Cat back home after three-week adventure

Buster, a gray and white cat, went on a three-week adventure in September, one that almost cost him one of his nine lives.

He had escaped from his owners the Downs family on Lafayette Street in early September and went out investigating. He somehow got into a nearby rental house at Eagle and Smalley streets, possibly through a hole, and was sniffing around unnoticed when the home’s owners patched the hole and went home to Chicago. When they came back a week later, they found a weak, skinny Buster and gave him to neighbor Mary Duley.

Duley bundled the cat in an old sweater in her sunroom, fed it baby food and water from a syringe and rocked him that night because it was too late to call the veterinarian. Duley called Annabelle Clark who lives on Lafayette and is known in the neighborhood for helping animals.

“The cat was basically dead. It could barely lift its head up,” Clark said.

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When Shawano Medical Center co-workers Kathy Pleshek and Sandy Orhmundt arrived for a vacation in Cancun Oct. 11, little did they realize the experience that was waiting for them.

Cat back home after three-week adventure

Buster, a gray and white cat, went on a three-week adventure in September, one that almost cost him one of his nine lives.

Stockbridge-Munsee recognized by United States Military Academy

In a ceremony held at the United States Military Academy at West Point in New York on Friday, the Stockbridge-Munsee Community, Band of Mohican Indians signed a Memorandum of Understanding with West Point recognizing that the tribe possesses a unique experience in both written and oral history to identify and evaluate historic properties of religious and cultural significance.