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What Did the Groundhog See?

Mixed results for famous groundhogs on East Coast.

The prognosis for the year — at least among the rodentia — is somewhat muddled.

Staten Island Chuck, New York's own groundhog, this morning predicted what many of us are already feeling: an early spring.

According the Staten Island Advance, the groundhog did not take a nibble off of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has been wearing heavy leather gloves .

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Chuck's rival in Gobbler's Knob, Pennsylavia, Punxsutawney Phil, did predict six more weeks of winter, after purportedly spotting many shadows amid his crowd of admirers.

We guess, as usual, we're just going to have to open a window — or maybe check the weather on the Patch homepage — if we want to see what's happening the next six weeks.

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