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$1.5M To Go Toward New Outdoor Amphitheater In Hudson Valley For Popular Festival $1.5M To Go Toward New Outdoor Amphitheater In Hudson Valley For Popular Festival
$1.5M To Go Toward New Outdoor Amphitheater In Hudson Valley For Popular Festival Elected officials have announced $1.5 million in federal funding that will help pay for a permanent home for a Hudson Valley theater festival that attracts tens of thousands of visitors each year.  US Senator Chuck Schumer just revealed that the funds were secured in pending legislation to go toward the expansion of an open-air Shakespeare-style amphitheater overlooking the Hudson River in Putnam County.  The amphitheater, which the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival will use, will be built on a 98-acre former golf course property in Philipstown that was gifted to the fe…

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by Ben Crnic
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$200K In Matching Grants Benefits Announced For 45 Westchester Arts Organizations $200K In Matching Grants Benefits Announced For 45 Westchester Arts Organizations
$200K In Matching Grants Benefits Announced For 45 Westchester Arts Organizations A total of $200,000 in matching funds from the Art$WChallenge grant program has been awarded to 45 different arts organizations throughout the Westchester area. Westchester County Executive George Latimer and the Westchester County Board of Legislators worked alongside ArtsWestchester to determine the recipients of matching funds from the grant program and “provide much-needed funding for arts and culture in Westchester County.” The arts organizations raised a total of $526,158 in private funds through the Art$WChallenge program of 2018. As a whole, these grants and matching fund efforts am…

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by Valerie Musson