Warm winter could take pressure off Pa. groundhog

By CATHERINE CLOUTIER, Erie Times-News PUNXSUTAWNEY — Groundhog Day is steeped in tradition. It is a day of magic, of pageantry, and for the past eight years, of hot wings and chili. The air at the 8th Annual Groundhog Day Chili and Wing Cook-off on

Every Feb. 2, unassuming groundhog Punxsutawney Phil is snatched from his comfy burrow and asked to tell us whether or not Americans will experience six more weeks of wintry weather.

What is magical about Punxsutawney is not just the movie or the mythical 127-year-old "prognosticator of prognosticators." The people and their values are the magic, and it is from the real people of Punxsutawney that

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — With this winter being like it's been, six more weeks of it might not be so bad. Unseasonably warm temperatures and a lack of snow would seem to put less pressure on Punxsutawney Phil, the central Pennsylvania groundhog set to

Repeating the same scenario isn't all unpleasant, as Bill Murray discovered while endlessly reliving Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney, Pa. You can learn to play the piano, speak French, ice sculpt, go out to a lot of nice dinners, and more.

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