{"id":121231,"date":"2023-01-11T09:36:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T14:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=121231"},"modified":"2023-01-11T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T14:37:00","slug":"state-canal-system-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=121231","title":{"rendered":"State canal system news"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tourism infrastructure and events grant applications accepted through Feb. 24<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The state Canal Corporation, through&nbsp;the Reimagine the Canals&nbsp;initiative and the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor are offering competitive grant funding to support tourism and recreation along the state canal system,&nbsp;including canal waterways and Canalway Trail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An information session is scheduled for Jan. 26, 2023; the deadline to apply is Feb. 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2023 program will support tourism infrastructure and amenity improvements and events.&nbsp;Applications are open through Feb. 24, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Funding is open to counties, municipalities, units of local government, not-for-profit organizations and federally recognized Native American tribes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The grant program includes two funding categories: Event Support, with an award range of $500 to $3,000; and Tourism Infrastructure &amp; Amenity Support, with an award range of $5,000 to $24,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Applicants may apply for both categories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2022, 38 nonprofit organizations and municipalities received state Canal System Tourism Infrastructure and Event Grants totaling $259,300. The grants supported 11 tourism infrastructure and amenity improvements and 27 events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interested applicants are invited to attend an informational question-and-answer session at 10 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. For more information, <a href=\"https:\/\/gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eriecanalway.org%2Fresources%2Fgrants%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7CJean_Mackay%40partner.nps.gov%7Cd174a1c81ea647db543208daf24f402f%7C0693b5ba4b184d7b9341f32f400a5494%7C0%7C0%7C638088719440000822%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=L436UogLC4aZLny6%2FjPEvYvsKriIpOKJoBzJGhZrlsM%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">eriecanalway.org\/resources\/grants\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourism infrastructure and events grant applications accepted through Feb. 24 The state Canal Corporation, through&nbsp;the Reimagine the Canals&nbsp;initiative and the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor are offering competitive grant funding to support tourism and recreation along the state canal system,&nbsp;including canal waterways and Canalway Trail. An information session is scheduled for Jan. 26, 2023; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23816,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ff","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Canastota-Erie-Canal-State-Street.jpg?fit=470%2C290&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-vxl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/102355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}