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The event features music, hot drinks, snacks, and opportunities for live streaming and selfies with “Hope” after the reveal at the party at the Yellow Trail Museum/Hope Visitors Center. Groundhog Day in Hope is held whether it is raining, snowing, sleeting, or bitterly cold. For the first time this year, an out-of-state group from New The event features music, hot drinks, snacks, and opportunities for live streaming and selfies with “Hope” after the reveal at the party at the Yellow Trail Museum/Hope Visitors Center. Groundhog Day in Hope is held whether it is raining, snowing, sleeting, or bitterly cold. For the first time this year, an out-of-state group from New After Hope’s prediction is interpreted, warm drinks and snacks will be available at the Yellow Trail Museum on the northwest side of the Town Square. The Hope Groundhog Day celebration is organized by Main Street of Hope and Utopia Wildlife rehabilitators with help from Indiana Main Street and the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs. Hope the Groundhog is the official prognosticator for the town of Hope, Indiana. Every year on February 2nd, local notables gather around a bandstand in the Town Square as Hope makes her annual prediction of either an early thaw or six more weeks of “Brrr!”, set to a soundtrack of polka music. HOPE, Ind. (WISH) — A small Bartholomew County town started the day Thursday with its annual Groundhog Day celebration. “This is the 10th year here in Hope, Indiana,” Susan Fey, an organizer Main Street of Hope and Utopia Wildlife Rehabilitators' 11th annual Groundhog Day event will take place at 8:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 2. Katie Wiseman is a trending and breaking news intern at IndyStar. Main Street of Hope and Utopia Wildlife Rehabilitators' 12th annual Groundhog Day event will take place at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 2. What will spring be like in Indiana? Old Farmer's Almanac “Groundhog Day was celebrated for the first time in 1887, so we kind of tried to keep that Victorian feel,” said organizer Jessica Deckard. “It’s kind of a very silly pomp and circumstance type of thing.” Speaker Jessica Deckard, the first female “Groundhog Groupie” in Hope, Indiana, speaks at the 2024 Groundhog Day ceremony. HOPE, Ind. – The Town of Hope, is hosting its 11th anniversary Groundhog Day event on Friday, February 2, starting at 8 a.m., on the Hope Town Square. The groundhog makes her appearance at 8:30. The special morning, where Bartholomew County residents find out if the groundhog sees its shadow, is part history, part theater, part nature, and HOPE, Ind. – Main Street of Hope and Utopia Wildlife Rehabilitators remind area residents that they are presenting the Town of Hope’s annual Groundhog Day festivities this Thursday morning, February 2, at the northeast corner of the Hope Town Square. The celebration starts at 8 a.m. with music. The stream will begin at 6 a.m. on Feb. 2, 2025. What's happening in Indiana for Groundhog Day 2025? The town of Hope, Indiana, has its own special way to celebrate Groundhog Day, and that is with HOPE, Ind. – Main Street of Hope and Utopia Wildlife Rehabilitators remind area residents that they are presenting the Town of Hope’s annual Groundhog Day festivities this Thursday morning, February 2, at the northeast corner of the Hope Town Square. The celebration starts at 8 a.m. with music. Speaker Jessica Deckard, the first female "Groundhog Groupie" in Hope, Indiana, speaks at the 2024 Groundhog Day ceremony. (Grace Marocco, WFIU/WTIU News) This is fourth year the groundhog Hope Forecaster Type: Groundhog Location: Hope, Indiana, United States Description: Grubby is a groundhog who provided a winter prognostication from the mid 2010s until 2020 in Hope, Indiana. Grubby resided at the Utopia Wildlife Rehabilitators when not providing Groundhog Day forecasts. Forecaster Type: Groundhog Location: Hope, Indiana, United States Description: Hope was an understudy of Grubby the Groundhog who has now taken over as the Groundhog Day forecaster at Hope Town Square in Hope, Indiana each year. Forecasting since: 2021 Find your closest Groundhog Day prognosticator on an interactive map of all groundhogs across USA and Canada. Hope the Groundhog. Groundhog. Hope, Indiana. Indiana's Hope the Groundhog and Pennsylvania's Punxsatawney Phil have spoken. Here's their weather predictions. News Sports Indy 500 Things To Do Opinion Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals Groundhog Day (February 2) is celebrated in Hope on the town square with local dignitaries in costume viewing the prediction of a local groundhog, currently Hope the Groundhog, or her brother Frank, from the local Utopia Wildlife Rehabilitators. Matt Lee, executive director of “Main Street of HOPE” and David Miller, Hope Indiana librarian and actor for the Groundhog Day Event, joined us today to share what you can expect at during the Here in Indiana, Hope, the state's own groundhog, will have a slightly different experience. Skies are expected to be partly to mostly cloudy, meaning there's a chance for shadow visibility, but
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