State funding approved for Sharon Ridge expansion

SHARON — State Rep. Roberta Willis (D-64) announced Dec. 16 that a $3,149,105 grant-in-aid for the Sharon Housing Authority’s Sharon Ridge Apartment expansion project has been approved by the state Bond Commission.“The grant will provide critical funding to develop affordable housing,” Willis said. “I again thank everyone for listening to my request for the funding and for the members of the Bond Commission who supported the grant.”The funds will make it possible for the Sharon Housing Authority to add three new affordable housing apartment buildings, with four apartments in each. Sharon Ridge now has 20 apartments.The three new buildings will have eight one-bedroom apartments and four two-bedroom units.The new units will be green and will make use of new energy efficient technologies. They will be designed to blend into the existing buildings.

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The Webb Family in the workshop. From left: Phyllis, Dale, Ben and Josh Webb, and project manager Hannah Schiffer.

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In the late ‘90s, Dale Webb was working in engineering and product design at a corporate job. “I took up instrument manufacturing as a fun challenge,” said Dale. After an exhibit at The National Association of Music Merchants in Anaheim, California, in 1999, The Magic Fluke company was born. “We were casting finger boards and gluing these things together in our basement in New Hartford and it just took off,” Dale explained. “It was really a wild ride, it kind of had a life of its own.”

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A five-time Grammy winner, Cray has been inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame and earned The Americana Music Awards Lifetime Achievement for Performance. He has played with blues and rock icons including Albert Collins, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, The Rolling Stones, Tina Turner, Eric Clapton and many more.

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