Gardeners may find the celebration of a furry garden pest taboo, but the festivities for Groundhog Day get bigger every year spanning the U.S. and Canada. Punxsutawney Phil may be the most famous ...

My undergraduate college advisor, Bruce Hamilton, always seemed to go left when everyone else was turning right. In typical “Doc” style, after years of his Christmas cards arriving later and ...

Megan Swift Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025 5:01 a.m. | Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025 5:01 a.m. The largest Groundhog Day crowd to date greeted the news from Punxsutawney Phil with a chorus of boos Sunday.

What a virtually snowless winter and early spring means for flower beds, car and ski trail maintenance, recreators, snowplowers and pooper scoopers in Anchorage.

Groundhog Day enthusiasts employ a range of strategies for coping with the cold and handling an early wakeup call. “I have a heated vest. I have a heated hat. Have a heated scarf,” Danielle ...

Don’t put away those snow shovels just yet! The world-famous prognosticating groundhog Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow when he emerged from his den in western Pennsylvania early Sunday, meaning ...

This year was the 139th year in the history of the famous woodchuck doing so, also given the name Groundhog Day. This year, he had seen his shadow resulting in the prediction of a longer winter.

He’s immortal. He’s got a great wife and kids. And his only job requirement is going outside once a year. But before anyone poo-poos what many view as one of Pennsylvania’s — or, indeed ...