Punxsutawney Phil predicts an early spring this year

Thursday, February 3, 2011

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. -- The country's most famous groundhog predicted an early spring Wednesday. Punxsu-tawney Phil emerged just after dawn on Groundhog Day to make his 125th annual weather forecast in front of a smaller-than-usual crowd in rural Pennsylvania who braved muddy, icy conditions to hear his handlers reveal that he had not seen his shadow.

To continue reading
For more than 115 years, the Southeast Missourian has written the first draft of local history. We have aspired to enrich, entertain, educate and inform. Our core values have remained firm: truth, service, quality, integrity and community. Support our mission.