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ALBANY BIRTHS: April 26 – May 2, 2016

Boyd-Grant Awards Dinner will raise money for ACRI

One citizen and one business will be honored Friday night

MARY BRASWELL: See what was making the news for the month of May in years past

LOOKING BACK: After operating WALB-TV for more than 44 years, in 1998 Gray Communications swapped the station for one in Wisconsin, a transaction valued at $78 million.

ALBANY BIRTHS: April 19 – 25, 2016

Field Day 2016 at Lincoln Elementary

It was all play and no work for the first-graders at Lincoln Elementary in Albany on Thursday.

ALBANY BIRTHS: April 11-18, 2016

MARY BRASWELL: About 60,000 fans gathered at Yankee Stadium in 1947 to celebrate the first Babe Ruth Day.

LOOKING BACK: Babe Ruth made his MLB debut on July 11, 1914 as a member of the Boston Red Sox

MARY BRASWELL: Looking back at April 1927

HISTORY: Henry Ford was hospitalized at the Henry Ford Hospital for injuries sustained in an accident while driving a Ford coupe.

ALBANY BIRTHS: April 5-12, 2016

ALBANY BIRTHS: March 28 – April 5, 2016