SIGHTINGS: Mountain lion sightings fuel lore in eastern Mass.

PITTSFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Christine Poke knows what she saw.

The mountain lion, extinct in the eastern United States as far as biologists are concerned, nonchalantly cut through her Lenox neighborhood, making a surprise appearance during her otherwise uneventful morning stroll.

‘‘I was walking down the road here on Galway Court and it crossed right in front of me,’’ Poke said. ‘‘It just crossed the road; it was just very happy and just padded along.’’

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