{"id":62120,"date":"2026-02-02T22:17:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=62120"},"modified":"2026-02-02T22:18:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:18:04","slug":"page-county-sheriffs-office-takes-punxsutawney-phil-into-custody-following-treacherous-weather-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/02\/02\/page-county-sheriffs-office-takes-punxsutawney-phil-into-custody-following-treacherous-weather-prediction\/","title":{"rendered":"Page County Sheriff\u2019s Office Takes &#8220;Punxsutawney Phil&#8221; into Custody Following Treacherous Weather Prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img data-dominant-color=\"6f6252\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"859\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"http:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/627042310_1532121978943434_5693820857677018608_n-1024x859.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62121 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #6f6252; aspect-ratio:1.1921066237720457;width:447px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/627042310_1532121978943434_5693820857677018608_n-1024x859.webp 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/627042310_1532121978943434_5693820857677018608_n-300x252.webp 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/627042310_1532121978943434_5693820857677018608_n-768x644.webp 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/627042310_1532121978943434_5693820857677018608_n-1536x1288.webp 1536w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/627042310_1532121978943434_5693820857677018608_n.webp 2048w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following this morning\u2019s Groundhog Day festivities at Gobbler\u2019s Knob, the Page County Sheriff\u2019s Office has announced the apprehension of Punxsutawney Phil for his role in prolonging the current winter season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of early this morning, handlers confirmed that Phil observed his shadow, signaling six more weeks of winter weather. This prediction arrives on the heels of a treacherous snow and ice storm that has already blanketed the region, causing hazardous road conditions and school closures for one week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Given the dangerous conditions our community is currently navigating, it is unfortunate that Mr. Phil has seen fit to guarantee another month and a half of this cold,&#8221; said Sheriff Cubbage. &#8220;We are holding him for questioning regarding his meteorological forecasting, which we feel is not helping, the current public safety situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Phil is currently being held in the Page County Jail without bond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following this morning\u2019s Groundhog Day festivities at Gobbler\u2019s Knob, the Page County Sheriff\u2019s Office has announced the apprehension of Punxsutawney Phil for his role in prolonging the current winter season.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDJcLzYyNzA0MjMxMF8xNTMyMTIxOTc4OTQzNDM0XzU2OTM4MjA4NTc2NzcwMTg2MDhfbi53ZWJwP2ZpdD0xMDI0JTJDODU5JnNzbD0xIiwidHh0IjoiUGFnZSBDb3VudHkgU2hlcmlmZlx1MjAxOXMgT2ZmaWNlIFRha2VzICYjODIyMDtQdW54c3V0YXduZXkgUGhpbCYjODIyMTsgaW50byBDdXN0b2R5IEZvbGxvd2luZyBUcmVhY2hlcm91cyBXZWF0aGVyIFByZWRpY3Rpb24iLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImhpZ2h3YXkiLCJmb250IjoiIiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.yVRn6PqrZghBjAsypz0H5nS7BDcdqDNUX9kb73bu_2sMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":62121,"url":"http:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/627042310_1532121978943434_5693820857677018608_n.webp","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[2621],"tags":[13474],"class_list":["post-62120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-satire","tag-page-county-sheriffs-office-takes-punxsutawney-phil-into-custody-following-treacherous-weather-prediction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62122,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62120\/revisions\/62122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}