Thanks to Dorie Goldman and many Fort River teachers, the Amherst Cultural Council (a local agency supported by the Mass Cultural Council) funded four grant proposals for the following:
2nd grade: $500, storyteller Eshu Bumpus
3rd grade: $350, Habitat Studies at the Hitchcock Center
4th grade: $455, Shangri-La Dance Troupe at the Fine Arts Center, UMass
5th grade: $525, Local Ecology at the Hitchcock Center
Also congratulations to Linda Castronovo who secured an additional $1600 grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council STARS program for an artists-in-residency program with storyteller Eshu Bumpus for 2nd graders in March and April.
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