A crazed groundhog sunk its teeth into two out-of-towners this week, and officials in northern New Jersey confirm the animal ...

Milltown Mel, one of several New Jersey groundhogs who have followed in the footsteps of Punxsutawney Phil in trying to predict the weather each year on Groundhog Day, won’t be among the shadow ...

The origin of Groundhog Day in Milltown, New Jersey, traces to a promise a guy named Jerry Guthlein made to his sick wife in the mid-1990s. Cathy Guthlein, a Milltown mother of three, ...

For the fifth year in a row, a New Jersey borough has had to cancel its beloved Groundhog Day celebration for a simple, and pretty important, reason: They don’t have a groundhog.

New Jersey’s weather-predicting groundhog, Milltown Mel, has died suddenly — just before his big day. “We wranglers are sad to report that Milltown Mel recently crossed over the rainbow ...

New Jersey's Milltown Mel "recently crossed over the rainbow bridge," his handlers say — and they scrambled to find a replacement rodent for Groundhog Day, to no avail.

Groundhogs are small, furry creatures. They’ve earned a spot in American lore courtesy of Punxatawey Phil and his perspicacious tendency to send us all into six more weeks of Winter. They are ...

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