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Woodstock Museum to open next year

By Times Wires
Published October 28, 2007

BETHEL, N.Y.

A museum dedicated to Woodstock will rock on even though the federal government pulled $1-million in funding for the memorial to the famous hippie fest. Officially, the Woodstock museum is known as the Museum at Bethel Woods, and is due to open next year. Bethel is the upstate New York town where organizers eventually 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. Last week, in a 52-42 vote, the Senate voted to strip the $1-million earmark sought by New York Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles Schumer, both Democrats. Bethel Woods has received $15-million in state funding. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., ran a TV ad that mocks fellow presidential candidate Clinton for the spending proposal.

HOUSTON

Officer fired over 'Ghetto Handbook'

The city's school system has fired a police officer for creating and distributing a "Ghetto Handbook." The eight-page booklet, handed out to other police officers, said the definitions it contained would allow readers to speak as if they "just came out of the hood." It was subtitled "Wucha dun did now?" Gang investigator Roby Morris, 34, had worked for 11 years at the Houston Independent School District, according to an investigation report released Friday. He had been on paid leave since August. The report said Morris pointed out that he is married to a black woman and that they have three children together.

Elsewhere

New York: Former New York Mayor David Dinkins underwent an emergency appendectomy and was "doing well" on Saturday, former adviser and friend Peter Johnson Jr. said. Dinkins, 80, was operated on Friday evening at New York Presbyterian Hospital. He was mayor between 1990 and 1993.

Minneapolis: Dawn Nyberg, 32, of Blaine, a former court clerk, has been charged with fixing 73 of her own parking tickets to avoid paying $5,112 in fines and late fees. She was charged with theft by swindle of public funds, forgery and misconduct by a public officer.

Watauga, Texas: A 5-year-old boy playing on train tracks fell and then froze up when he heard a locomotive approaching, leaving him unable to move before the train struck and killed him, police said. Kevin Bradford and two other boys had snuck past their grandmother to look for dinosaur bones on Thursday, police said.

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