The tradition started in 1887 at Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania with a groundhog known as Punxsutawney Phil. Eventually, in 1999, Michigan found its own groundhog to make predictions, ...
BAY CITY, MI – One of the city’s four bascule-style bridges will be closed for a week, less than a month after it began tolling. Bay City’s Independence Bridge will be closed beginning at 7 a.m.