Groundhog Day News

The place was the Harrisburg Hilton and the event was this week's Pennsylvania Press Club luncheon with Philly state Rep.

The famous forecasting groundhog saw his shadow on Feb. 2 and predicted six more weeks of winter from his Gobbler's Knob outpost in Punxsutawney, Pa.

Exactly one month and one day has passed since Phil the Groundhog was awakened from hibernation, popped his sleepy head out of a snuggly stump and looked around for his shadow.

Punxsutawney Phil guessed right after all. Wintry weather continued yesterday with more than 6 inches of snow in areas of the county.

Punxsutawney Phil, the meteorological groundhog, saw his shadow right on schedule and doomed us to another six weeks of winter.

What do Santa Claus, St. Valentine, the Easter Bunny, and Punxsutawney Phil all have in common? There's a very strong possibility they might all show up for this weekend's Annual Mardi Gras Goodland Boat Parade ...

Well, February 2005 in its brief 13 days has provided three big surefire (you know I m kidding, right?) events that have an interesting historical predictive ability.

The snow that was stacked high along the roadways has finally melted, but the skies are still gray and on Feb.

Senior Conservatives have ripped into Tony Blair after the Prime Minister unveiled a series of bland Groundhog Day election pledges which repeat the same old promises Labour has already failed to deliver.

Punxsutawney Phil may have predicted six more weeks of winter, but at the Edwardsville Department of Parks and Recreation spring fever has already begun.

Like Punxsutawney Phil on Groundhog Day, residents of Eighth Street will see their shadows less often since the Zoning Board of Adjustment approved an 18-story condominium development at its meeting last week.

For all of you who missed Groundhog Day last week, Punxsutawney Phil predicted six more weeks of winter.

At the Queens Zoo on Groundhog Day last week, Flushing Meadows Phil and Corona Kate - both prairie dogs - gave conflicting reports on whether or not winter was going to last six more chilling weeks.

Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow on Groundhog Day, signaling six more weeks of winter and the Laconia Main Street Program, along with many downtown businesses, are taking full advantage of the latest winter ...

No matter how things change other things stay the same. The old groundhog day celebration continues.

Mother Nature is a fickle young lady in February. She blows frigid one day and spring-like warm the next day.

Shriver Job Corps Center observed this year's National Groundhog Job Shadow Day, Feb.

Punxsutawney Phil, the Pennsylvania groundhog, may have predicted six more weeks of winter for the nation, but folks in Northeast Mississippi still need to be thinking about getting their gardens ready for ...

An expectant audience of Wildwood students gathered around and began to chant softly, 'Wally, Wally, Wally,' waiting in anticipation for the cover to be lifted and the fate of winter to be revealed by the ...

Punxsutawney Phil, aggravated again by being rousted from a warm bed at an unearthly hour, got his revenge last week by forecasting six more weeks of winter.

On Dec. 26, 2004, an undersea earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter Scale occurred about 100 miles off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra Island at a depth of about four miles.

Though their announcement was serious - the introduction of a strict new campaign finance reform bill - the congressmen couldn't stop cracking smiles.

Now that Punxsutawney Phil has burrowed his way back down in his hole for another year, Dianne West is on a mission to disprove that the groundhog was wrong when he saw his shadow.

The Muskingum County Community Foundation celebrated its 20th Anniversary with the 10th Annual Groundhog Auction.

Hints of spring come and go, though winter is still very much present. Punxsutawney Phil, the famous furry pundit of spring's arrival, has reinforced the fact that the season will continue for a spell.

Each year before Groundhog Day, the Insurance Information Institute invites a panel of Wall Street stock analysts and industry professionals to come out of their holes, look around for their shadow and forecast ...

There s one unbreakable rule about Groundhog Day: Don t head home without a souvenir.

Wednesday morning, the halls of the math building rang with the voices of students chanting the phrase G-R-O-U-N-D-H-O-G-G-Y sung to the tune of The Mickey Mouse Song.

As the hardy New Hampshirites they are - or at least were for this day - more than 100 area citizens, business people, and politicians willingly rolled from their warm beds into predawn cold and darkness ...

The Punxsutawney Phil groundhog may have seen his shadow Wednesday, Feb. 2 forecasting six more weeks of winter, but county crews were seeing raccoons last week on Keystone Avenue.

It seemed like just another Groundhog Day at the Maury County Children s Library, but I was on a self-assigned assignment to find some action.

Spring may be just around the corner in Wiarton, but in Niagara there's still six more weeks of winter.