Kate Gundersen-Thorpe has been appointed as the new park operations manager for the French Creek State Park Complex.

Project to build a required perimeter fence around the West Virginia Wildlife Center is underway and expected to be completed ...

Freddie is an icon of the state of West Virginia, said a Freddie supporter. “We like him better than [Punxsutawney] Phil.” Whether Freddie predicted early spring or six more weeks of winter, for one ...

Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, on Feb. 2, 2025, and is predicting six more weeks of wintry weather, his top-hatted handlers announced from Gobbler’s Knob in western Pennsylvania. A massive crowd ...

French Creek Freddie, West Virginia's weather-predicting groundhog, forecast an early spring during a Groundhog Day celebration at the West Virginia State Wildlife Center in Upshur County on Sunday.

The nationally recognized weather-predicting groundhog Punxsutawney Phil predicted six more weeks of winter on Sunday, but West Virginia’s statewide version predicted early spring, so who is ...

More than 600 people turned out Sunday morning to watch French Creek Freddie, the state’s beloved weather-predicting groundhog, make his annual Groundhog Day prediction. Freddie forecast an early ...

FRENCH CREEK, W.Va. (WBOY) — French Creek Freddy has made his prediction! It was a cold and cloudy morning on Sunday, but that didn’t stop people from traveling to the West Virginia State Wildlife ...

BUCKHANNON – After a month marked by repeated bouts of winter weather, many local residents hope French Creek Freddie will predict an early spring during the West Virginia Wildlife Center’s annual ...