GOOD MORNING – TODAY IS by John Dwyer

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GOOD MORNING – TODAY IS TUESDAY, August 04, the 217th day of 2020 with 149 to follow. Sunrise in the Boston area is @ 5:39 and sunset is @ 8:01. The moon is waning. The morning stars are Mars, Neptune and Uranus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus.

ON THIS DAY IN: 1735 – Freedom of the press was established with an acquittal of John Peter Zenger. The writer of the New York Weekly Journal had been charged with seditious libel by the royal governor of New York. The jury said that “the truth is not libelous.” Continue reading GOOD MORNING – TODAY IS by John Dwyer

The Somerville/Medford News Weekly Favorite Birthday Photos of the Week

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Happy Birthday to a number of Villens celebrating their birthdays this week in the Ville and around the Square! Happy Birthday to George Reeves, Dan Medeiros, Marie Lomanno, Dennis Myles, Anthony Marino, Donna Marie Fazio, Kathleen Catino, Sebastion Piacentini, Lisa Desimone, Gen McCarthy, Louie Barber, Ilda Almeida, Angel Willis, Tom Kerr, Peter Martin, Frank Fraumeni, Jorge Sousa, Virginia Fitzgibbon, Betty Davis, Robert Carr, Alicia Libucha, Chuckie Fitzgibbon, Patrick Farrell, Ron Kenney, Junior Dunne, Gayle Gunning Lombardo, Marjorie Decker, Diane Snow, John Alan Roderick, Steve Jeffres, Michelle Christine, Lisa F Lehman, Zach Corey, Ricky Chan, Pam King, Alicia Lafuente, Meredith Canavan, Kaitlin Norton, John J Fiorentino, Patti Splaine Crowley, Nick Lazilli, Amanda Sleddington, Vincent Chia, Joseph DiBenedetto, Ronnie Sousa, Brian Novak, Lainie Dellorfano, Jeff Quinlan, Eric O’Brien, Salvatore Pino, Karen Haley, Jerry Carvalho, Ken Miaocco, Dale Hodgkins, Kenneth Jameson, Franco Nuzzo, Kathleen Gatta, Duggan Hill, Robert Earle-Coppola, Bobby Young and Billy Consolo

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Remembrance: The great Bobby Hebb, ‘Sunny’ and beyond – Ten Years After the Passing of this Musical Giant

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By Joe Viglione

Salem and Rockport enjoyed the presence of a musical giant best known for a song that must have over 1,000 “cover versions” at this point in time, the immortal “Sunny.” On Aug. 3 2010, just a week and a day after his 72nd birthday, we lost this unique, wonderful and quite amazing human being: Bobby Hebb. Continue reading Remembrance: The great Bobby Hebb, ‘Sunny’ and beyond – Ten Years After the Passing of this Musical Giant