Groundhog Day News

Published: Friday, March 19, 2010 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 7:26 p.m. The approach of spring, which officially begins Saturday when the sun shines directly on the equator, making the hours of daylight and darkness almost equal in all parts of the earth, has not been this eagerly anticipated along the Florida Gulf Coast ...

In her poem about Kakuma, a sprawling camp of 61,285 African refugees in northwestern Kenya, 15-year-old Amina Osman begins, a oeIn Kakuma life is pain.

My favorite is Midnight Louie, hands down. I even named my long-haired black cat Midnight Louie, and we call him Louie just like Carole Nelson Douglas does.

Have you been paying attention? If so, you certainly know that Tuesday is six weeks from Groundhogs Day.

In Groundhog Day , Bill Murray is a TV weatherman forced to cover the same story about a groundhog emerging from hibernation four years in a row, forced to relive the same unbearable day over and over again.

On one of the coldest days in January, someone called me to talk about the robins all over town.

Every year on the second of February, the famous Punxsutawney Phil pops out of the ground to predict the weather for the next six weeks.

On February 2, 2010, Punxsutawny Phil, perhaps the most famous groundhog of all time, saw his shadow outside of his cave at Gobbler's Knob, Pennsylvania, thereby cementing the presupposition that winter, however mild or dreadful, would continue for another six weeks across the United States.

Groundhog Day: It has a history with the Northfield Mount Hermon School girls' basketball program.

What could have been an easy race for an incumbent may become a day of reckoning.

Dear Punxsutawney Phil: Is it something we said? Did someone mistake you for a gopher and try to go all ''Caddyshack'' on you? Or have you just decided we've stopped taking you and your whole six-more-weeks-of-winter schtick seriously? Because we do.

The groundhog predicted six more weeks of winter on Feb. 2. Since then, it's been quite a season, with many Pennsylvania communities witnessing their snowiest February ever.

Groundhog Day 2010: my personal opinion is that the little furry critter emerged from his lair, and promptly froze solid in his tracks, paws, claws, fur balls and all; thus rendering invalid, null and void any pronouncements about the weather.

Enterprise High School sophomore Candice Barbaccia visited the Enterprise Ledger Thursday morning to gain an overview of the newspaper's daily operations during Groundhog Job Shadow Day sponsored annually by the high school and the Enterprise Chamber of Commerce.

Lion President Al Dafoe called the meeting to order at 6:35 p.m. in the Lions Den of the Tillsonburg Community Centre with the singing of O'Canada led by Lion Bob Davis.

It's Groundhog Day for the Fat Nag. Time for the Nag to emerge from hibernation and cast her shadow big-time. In recent months, the Nag had been on a break from her crusade to nudge, cajole, convince and yes--nag us -- to get the fat off.

The infamous Groundhog Day Storm, which wreaked havoc in Saint John more than 30 years ago, is the lone New Brunswick item out of seven Atlantic provinces' mentions this month in the Environment Canada Weather Trivia Calendar.

A lot of things can happen in just a few weeks. Almost all of our attention was focused on the relief efforts in Haiti, but the record-setting snowstorms put this and the county's Black History Month observances on the "back burner." I don't know about you, but call it what you will, "Snowmageddon," "Snowpocalypse" or, my personal favorite, ...

It looks like Punxsutawney Phil might be right in his prediction earlier this month that we'd have six more weeks of winter.

Windows throughout the Clearwater area rattled this morning as army fighter planes believed to be from the Pinellas airport engaged in aerial target practice high over the city using what apparently were 20mm cannon shells.