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She's 84-years young, my Nana. I love her with all my heart. This video series has been taking a look back at how it was growing up in the Capital Region and her life moments. In this episode, we venture down the starts of our very own Capital Region love story from when she met my Grandfather who she was married to for, what would've been 50 years, the year he passed.

Everyone is touched by cancer in some way during our lives. I grew up knowing about it at a very early age. I was only 7 years old when my Grandmother was diagnosed with stomach cancer. I watched everything she had to go through, well, as much as a 7 year old gets exposed to. I watched her unable to eat.

Sunday, we got a lot of snow. Like a lot of snow. It was tough for my 33-year old asthmatic lungs, so I can only imagine how it was for our elders. Ryan Condo is a fire fighter in East Greenbush who, at the beginning of the winter season agreed to help the town with plowing the snow when needed. So, Sunday, you can imagine he was out doing just that.

Some things I read leave me scratching my head. Like, did you know that Magic Mike himself, Channing Tatum puts Cheerios cereal on his PB+J sandwiches? Really?! Okay, so that ones maybe not as strange, but how about this one: Actor, Scott Foley puts peanut butter on his eggs. ON. HIS. EGGS!...GROSS! So, I wanted to see the kind of weirdos, um, I mean weird food habits our friends here

North Adams, Massachusetts is anxious and excited for the opportunity that is in front of them: the chance to have their town made over with the help of the online reality series, Small Business Revolution! Currently they are one of the Top 5

We got a lot of snow over the weekend. I realize this is no news to you but listen, you could either be upset about it or just run with it and enjoy the heck out of it. I chose the latter and let me tell ya, it was fantastic!

Big country concert morning here at GNA! We're getting super psyched as the year continues and as all of these tours get announced! It's great to have so many amazing performers coming our way.

I have my own pictures to share of what was most definitely an "experience" rather than your average concert when it comes to Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood. Never in my life have I witnessed so many screaming with excitement, happy people singing along to such great music.

This week was a big one for music videos being released from all the new hits coming out of Nashville. It's always cool to me to see what they creatively come up with behind the scenes to have take place within the videos that end up being released. Sometimes it's like,

Reading the details of this story left me making a "Note to Self:" Don't keep jar of money in eye site. I would actually suggest maybe not keeping a jar of money at all, really. A safe full of money? Sure. Leaves people less able to run away with it, unless they are Wyle E. Coyote.

In a new edition of Growing Up 518, I sat down with my 84-year old Nana and really, just let her speak. That's what this series is all about.

Dear Mother Nature, Let me start by saying, man, you're beautiful. I love everything about you. Okay, I mean, almost everything about you. Don't get me wrong, you're great. Perfect, even. There's just times where I'm shaking