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Boston Church Attendance Surges, Red Sox Struggle Continues · Sunny Mornings Boston

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  Good morning and a warm welcome to your show,
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  Sunny Mornings in Boston. I'm your host, Melissa,
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  and it's Monday, April 6th. You'll be interested
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  to know, 130 years ago, today in 1896, athletes
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  from several nations gathered in Athens to open
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  a revived Olympic competition celebrating athletic
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  excellence and the spirit of ancient Greece.
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  That return marked a major milestone for international
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  sports, setting a model for peaceful global competition
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  and inspiring modern organized athletic festivals.
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  So now you know. And now, it's time for the weather
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  report. This morning, it's sunny and it feels
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  like 28 degrees with 13 mile per hour wind. The
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  sunset will take place at 7 .15. and it will
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  rise again tomorrow at 6 .13. It looks like we're
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  in for some mostly sunny weather today, with
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  temperatures near 49 and a moderate west wind
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  around 14 miles per hour. If you're inland, it
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  will hit a high of 49. Tonight, expect mostly
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  cloudy skies with a chance of rain showers after
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  midnight, a low around 35, and light winds around
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  10 miles per hour. The near -shore buoy at Cape
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  Cod Bay reads 41 degrees for the water temperature.
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  Looking ahead in the weather. Tuesday starts
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  with a chance of rain before 8 a .m. Then rain
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  is likely with a high near 48 and a northwest
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  breeze of 6 to 10 miles per hour. Tuesday night
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  stays partly cloudy with a low near 29 before
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  sunshine returns Wednesday. warming to near 49
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  then, climbing into the mid -50s on Thursday
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  and the upper 60s by Friday. Bonjour, food enthusiasts!
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  coffee. They are open every day from 8 to 5.
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  So stop on by and don't forget to tell them.
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  Sunny mornings send you. In local news, recent
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  reports indicate that Catholic church attendance
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  is on the rise, especially among young people.
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  Local Catholic houses of worship are celebrating
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  this increase as Easter weekend passes. While
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  attendance traditionally spikes on Ash Wednesday,
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  Palm Sunday, and Easter, local priests note that
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  these higher numbers are staying consistent throughout
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  the year. The Boston Archdiocese has seen a 55
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  % increase in adults joining over the past four
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  years. Father Peter Sharippa from Gate of Heaven
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  Parish remarked that their Ash Wednesday Mass
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  in South Boston was packed with about 1 ,000
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  attendees. He believes that many people are yearning
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  to rediscover the sacred. Now on to sports. The
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  Michigan Wolverines are heavy favorites over
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  the Yukon Huskies in the men's college basketball
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  title game. After a dominant performance against
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  Arizona in the semifinals, Michigan enters the
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  national championship game as the favorite. DraftKings
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  opened with the Wolverines as 7 .5 -point favorites.
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  Early batting at DraftKings shows 56 % of wagers
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  backing the Wolverines. Michigan opened plus
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  285 to win the game outright. Tonight, tip -off
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  is at 8 .50 Eastern. In local sports, the Red
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  Sox fell to the Padres 8 -6 on Sunday, marking
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  their seventh loss in eight games. Jackson Merrill
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  led San Diego with three hits, including a solo
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  homer that sparked a comeback from a four -run
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  deficit. Manny Machado also made an impact with
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  a three -run homer, while shortstop Xander Bogarts
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  added three hits. Boston briefly tied the game
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  in the seventh with Masataka Yoshida's two -run
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  double, but it wasn't enough to secure a win.
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  The Sox will host Milwaukee for three games,
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  with Brian Baio set to pitch tonight against
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  Brandon Woodruff. In top news, it can be hard
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  to wrap your head around all the conditions neurologists
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  treat, including cerebrovascular disorders like
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  stroke and carotid artery disease, seizure disorders,
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  and movement disorders including Parkinson's
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  disease. Dr. Andrew Dorsch, Division Chief for
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  General Neurology at Rush University System for
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  Health, emphasizes that if there is a nerve somewhere,
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  a neurologist could get involved. He warns that
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  people often brush off neurological symptoms,
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  thinking they are just age -related aches. For
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  neurologists, recommend never ignoring symptoms
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  such as weakness in one hand or leg. In business
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  news. In a light earnings week, the focus will
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  be on the Consumer Price Index, the first inflation
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  report to reflect the impact of the Iran war.
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  We will also see data on personal consumption
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  and gross domestic product. Stocks rebounded
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  sharply last week, snapping their five -week
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  losing streak. The S &P 500 gained 3 .4%, and
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  the Nasdaq Composite jumped 4 .4%. This week
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  will bring the first inflation report capturing
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  the impact of the war in Iran. Headline inflation
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  is expected to show a 1 % month -over -month
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  jump, the most since June 2022. In crypto movement,
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  Bitcoin is down 1 .5 % over the weekend to just
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  over $69 ,000. Ethereum is down 0 .5 % to just
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  over $2 ,000. And XRP is down 8%. to $1 .34.
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  Moving on to a more local vibe. In our community
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  spotlight on health and wellness, we are working
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  with a national Pilates studio to bring you some
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  free classes, so listen up. Check out Club Pilates,
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  with several locations in the Boston area. Pilates
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  presents a comprehensive wellness approach, cultivating
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  strength, reducing tension, and elevating mental
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  well -being. Scientific research affirms its
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  benefits. So now you can check out Club Pilates
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  for a free class. With locations in Canton, Wellesley,
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  Hingham, Brookline, and Framingham, just be sure
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  to tell them, sunny morning sent you by. And
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  now, back to the show. Let's talk tech. On April
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  2nd, 2026, A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced
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  a bill in the House of Representatives that would
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  severely limit the sale of advanced semiconductor
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  manufacturing equipment to China and other countries.
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  Led by Representative Michael Bongartner from
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  Washington, the Multilateral Alignment of Technology
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  Controls on Hardware Act would tighten existing
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  export controls for semiconductor manufacturing
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  tools used to create artificial intelligence
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  chips. If passed, these new restrictions would
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  likely curtail China's ability to build a fully
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  domestic artificial intelligence supply chain.
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  China's imports of semiconductor manufacturing
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  machinery have surged from $10 .7 billion in
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  2016 to about $51 .1 billion last year. And in
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  entertainment news… Mixed reviews did not dissuade
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  mass audiences from buying tickets to the Super
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  Mario Galaxy movie, which scored the biggest
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  opening of the year for a Hollywood movie. The
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  Illumination and Nintendo co -production earned
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  $130 million and $900 ,000 over the weekend,
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  and $190 million in its first five days in North
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  American theaters, according to studio estimates.
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  With an estimated $182 million from 80 overseas
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  markets, the film is looking at an astronomical
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  $372 million debut. Well, alrighty folks, it's
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  time for the quote of the day. And today, our
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  quote comes from the American journalist and
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  author, Hunter S. Thompson. And he said, Freedom
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  is something that dies unless it's used. And
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  that's a wrap for this morning. You can check
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  out our Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok for some
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  captivating aerial videos with local news and
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  the weather reports. Have an amazing day, my
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  good friends. We'll see you tomorrow with another
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  episode of Sunny Mornings in Boston.