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  • North girls soccer in midst of special season

    Knights have bonded under difficult circumstances By: Bob Nuse    The more he watches his team play, the more Kevin Mackenzie realizes there is something special about his West Windsor-Plainsboro North girls’ soccer team.    "I’m very proud of these girls," the Knights’ head coach said. "We’re a highly motivated team. Obviously, the loss of Diana (Rochford,…

  • Montgomery gets first football win

    Cougars dominate early in win over Hackettstown By: Bob Nuse    As Zoran Milich gets closer and closer to having his full team on the field, the Montgomery High football coach takes another step toward seeing the team he expected to be coaching all along.    That team was on display Friday night at Hackettstown, where the…

  • Borough mayor in new push for downtown plan

    Project’s financial details expected to be released soon. By: Jennifer Potash    Princeton Borough officials cranked up their effort Sunday to sell a controversial downtown development project proposal including a new parking garage, apartments and retail shops.    The energized outreach comes as the borough prepares to release to the public the detailed developer’s agreement and financial…

  • Montgomery set to reconfigure schools

    When the new high school opens, other schools in the system face major changes. By: Steve Rauscher    MONTGOMERY — When the new high school opens in 2004, the district will have more than 350,000 additional square feet of space in which to educate its ever-expanding student population, but it remains to be seen how the…

  • Saber rattling evokes rhetoric of Vietnam era

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Oct. 1 By: Packet Editorial    It’s getting harder and harder these days to listen to all the rhetoric about Iraq without hearing echoes of Vietnam.    It isn’t so much in the justification for U.S. involvement — although there are some striking parallels between our determination in the 1960s to rid Vietnam of communism…

  • Soul of a River Town

    Thanks to his natural curiosity and love for working with details, Edward Cohen spent two years researching and writing Lambertville’s Legacy. The 200-plus page text is accompanied by more than 100 graphics, maps, photographs, genealogical charts and historic documents. By: Susan Van Dongen    One of the most interesting tidbits Edward Cohen discovered while researching his…

  • Spreading Wings

    From jewelry and small bibelots to tables and large-scale installations, the ‘Crow’ makes it in metal. By: Ilene Dube

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  • Monday, Sept. 30, 2002

    Joseph T. Avella    Retired Col. Joseph T. Avella, 91, of Pennington died Friday at the Plaza Regency at Windrows, Princeton.    In 1942, he was commissioned a second lieutenant and was a signal corps officer in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He was discharged a major in 1947. He served in the N.J.…