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Jessica Damiano's award-winning garden blog gets to the root of things.

Groundhog predicts more winter; I predict mosquitoes

Groundhog Club handler Ron Ploucha holds Punxsutawney Phil,

Photo credit: AP

It's hard to believe that just a year ago, Malverne's Groundhog Day was canceled due to a ridiculous amount of snow, and now here we are in February without jackets.

Just a few minutes ago, the country's most famous rodent, Punxsutawney Phil, was summoned from his burrow -- OK, was dragged from his burrow -- in Gobbler's Knob, Pa., before a crowd of  thousands of revelers, saw his proverbial...

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