Happy Birthday, Perry!

Today would have been Perry Como's 99th birthday, but the fact that the Canonsburg crooner died in 2001 didn't stop the borough from throwing a bash to celebrate him.

"He's a town son," Main Street Manager Nadeen Steffey said Wednesday. "Why not celebrate him?"

Como classics played as folks gathered outside the borough building where they ate homemade cupcakes and shared stories about the singer—right near the statute erected in the Canonsburg native's honor.

Steffey likened the Wednesday-morning celebration as a "prelude to his 100th birthday," which she said has been brewing for a while.

But more details on that celebration—spearheaded by the Canonsburg Heritage Society and Main Street Program—are still in the works.