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Wiarton Willie, who was 13 years old, was found dead in his home at Bluewater Park on the weekend, South Bruce Peninsula announced Wednesday. “He just died in his sleep,” Mayor Janice Jackson ...
Amateur meteorologist Wiarton Willie joined two other Canadian groundhogs in predicting an early spring Tuesday morning. The announcement was made in a video that included Canadian Prime Minister J… ...
Wiarton Willie's annual spring prediction drew national attention every Groundhog Day to the small town in South Bruce Peninsula in southwestern Ontario, where he was found lifeless in his pen on ...
Wiarton Willie has died. Rumours of Willie’s death have swirled since Groundhog Day after the mayor of Wiarton, Ont., was seen in a video tossing a fur hat and making the prediction without the ...
The Wiarton Willie festival continues Friday and Saturday at Wiarton's Bluewater Park. "Willie has put Wiarton on the map for us. I just couldn't be more proud of our town and Willie," said Jackson.
Wiarton Willie is an albino groundhog who fictitiously predicts whether spring comes early or not depending on if he “sees” his shadow each Groundhog Day.
Wiarton Willie, the Nostradamus of the north, has died. But according to Tuesday's announcement by South Bruce Peninsula Mayor Janice Jackson, the fo… ...
Wiarton Willie III died at 13 in 2017, replaced by the two-year-old Wee Willie that same year, becoming Wiarton Willie IV. One person went so far as to suspect Premier Doug Ford in the latest ...
Wiarton’s famous weather-predicting albino groundhog has died. A tooth abscess caused Wiarton Willie’s untimely demise prior to his annual Groundhog Day prognostication earlier this year ...
Wiarton has a mayor newly trained in the secret language of the groundhog, this year brings a neophyte Willie and now, two cocktails created for Friday’s Groundhog Day to celebrate them both.
'We have a saying up here," says the only mayor in Canada who calls himself a Martian. "We'll weather the weather whatever the weather whether we like it or not." Carl Noble, a 64-year-old cattle ...
Wiarton Willie, the groundhog who fictitiously predicts the weather in the Ontario town that relies on him as a major tourist draw, is dead – and has been for some time.