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  • OBITUARIES, Nov. 14, 2000

    Virginia A. Wilson, Barbara Lombardo, Shirley Kane-Orr, Viola W. Komarek, Lynn Van Syckel, Earl M. Carhart. Virginia A. Wilson Plainsboro resident    PLAINSBORO – Virginia A. Wilson died Saturday at Forrestal Nursing Home. She was 82.    Born in Englishtown, she lived in Plainsboro more than 50 years.    She was a life member of the First Presbyterian…

  • WW-PS, Hun conclude football season with wins

    PHS, WW-PN look to future By: Bob Nuse    The West Windsor-Plainsboro High South football team went overtime in its finale to win, while the Hun School used a record-setting performance from running back Ishmael Medley to win its third straight and reach its goal of finishing with a winning record.    Meanwhile, both Princeton and West…

  • Neighbors vow to fight warehouse rezoning

    West Windsor officials are reviewing plans for a 1.1-million-square-foot facility off Old Trenton Road. By: Jeff Milgram    WEST WINDSOR – About 100 residents, some carrying signs that read "Stop Rezoning," came to the Township Council meeting Monday night to speak out against a plan to build a 1.06-million-square-foot warehouse/office complex on the 170-acre Baker Farm…

  • PU football breaks Yale hearts

    Blevins, Cheatham lead second-half rally in 19-14 win By: Justin Feil    Riding home from a heartbreaking one-point loss to Cornell two weeks earlier must have seemed like a 1,000 mile journey of soul-searching for the Princeton University football team with players asking what play each could have controlled to turn around the game.    In contrast,…

  • Meaghan Gorman, 17

       HILLSBOROUGH — Meaghan C. Gorman died Friday, Nov. 10, 2000, at Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia. She was 17.     She was born in Las Vegas and lived in Hillsborough for the past 15 years.    Meaghan was a student at the McAuley for Exceptional Children in Watchung and a participant in the Special Olympics.    She loved…

  • Harmony at the loom

    By: Linda Arntzenius    What would you be doing if you had to take your three-ply from your umbrella swift to your warping board, thread the heddles, load your shuttle and pass it through the shed?    You would be weaving, of course.    Occupational Anne Morrison has been weaving since her girlhood in England. The Princeton resident…

  • Marie Kirk, 85

       MANVILLE — Marie A.(Gibbons) Kirk died Saturday, Nov. 11, 2000, at Somerset Medical Center, Somerville. She was 85.    Born in Forty Fort, Pa., she lived in Manville for more than 50 years.    Mrs. Kirk was a bonder at RCA Corp. in Raritan, retiring after 20 years of employment.    She was a communicant of Christ the…

  • Princeton football on winning side of heartbreaker

    Last-second rally pushes Tigers past Yale, 19-14 By: Justin Feil    The Princeton University football team needed a win.    The Tigers were coming off a 40-24 loss to Pennsylvania in which they did not score in the second half. In the Cornell game before that, Princeton lost when it missed an extra point in the waning…

  • This election proves value of every vote

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Nov. 10 By: Packet Editorial    There has never been an election quite like it – and there may never be one again.    The election of 2000 could very well doom that quaint constitutional artifact – the Electoral College – at least in its present, winner-take-all form in 48 of the 50 states. It…