Woodstock center will proceed

A museum dedicated to Woodstock will rock on even though the federal government pulled $1 million in funding for the memorial to the hippie fest.

Officially, the Woodstock museum is known as the Museum at Bethel Woods, and is to open next year.

Bethel is the upstate town where organizers put on the three-day Woodstock Music and Art Fair in 1969.

“Our plans haven’t changed,” said Ellyn Solis, spokeswoman for the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, which is developing the museum as part of its 2,000-acre performing arts venue.

Last week, in a mostly party-line 52-42 vote, lawmakers voted to strip the $1-million earmark sought by New York Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles E. Schumer, both Democrats. Bethel Woods has received $15 million in state funding.