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  • Olga Gorbatuk, 78

       MANVILLE — Olga (Klimowich) Gorbatuk, died Tuesday. August 15, 2000, at the Greenbrook Manor Nursing Home. She was 78.    Born in Manville, Mrs. Gorbatuk was a lifelong resident.    She worked as a trimmer for Snappi Knits for 12 years, retiring in 1983. Mrs. Gorbatuk was a member and a former Sunday School teacher at Ss.…

  • AROUND CRANBURY: Wedding bells ring for library director

    By:Lorraine Sedor    Congratulations are in order for Library Director Howard Zogott and his new bride, Tina, who were married on Sunday, July 30 at the Nassau Inn. Mr. Z and Tina, the former Christina Larsen Feick, celebrated the occasion with about 50 family and friends, including the Gambinos, Swanagans and Kanawyers of Cranbury.    Phyllis Marchand,…

  • President Clinton to make two area stops for Holt

    A Hopewell Township family will host 250 to 300 people who will pay $1,000 apiece. By: Jeff Milgram    President Clinton is scheduled to make a stop Wednesday in Hopewell Township to bolster the re-election campaign of Rep. Rush Holt (D-12), officials on the congressman’s re-election committee said this week.    Neil Upmeyer, director of Rep. Holt’s…

  • Reach out and touch the wheel — with both hands

    By:        This message is for the woman we saw driving straight down the middle of the highway unsteadily at 25 miles an hour taking up both lanes – hang up and drive!    This message goes out to the man we saw weaving erratically on the road using no turn signals and failing to keep…

  • Woman dies from crash injuries

    Burlington Township woman killed By:Jeff Mikalaitis    MANSFIELD – A Burlington Township woman died after being involved in a two-car collision on Route 130, police said.    At 7:30 a.m. Saturday, Susan McCune, 56, was traveling south on Route 130 near mile post 52 when she made a left turn into the Liberty Two Diner, police said.…

  • Navy Lieutenant Quattrone sails into Hall of Fame

    It’s full speed ahead for Diane Quattrone as she sails into the Hightstown High School Sports Hall of Fame By: Neil Hay        It’s full speed ahead for Diane Quattrone as she sails into the Hightstown High School Sports Hall of Fame.    Quattrone, Hightstown Class of 1992 and a graduate of the United States Naval…

  • Borough eyes 12 acres for open space buy

    Property now owned by developer By:Eric Schwarz    The borough will pay about $90,000 to consultants working on the flood-buyout program. State and federal grants will repay the costs.    The Borough Council on Monday hired a project manager and an appraiser for the program in which up to 42 houses in the Lost Valley may be…

  • Tenant selected for former Harry’s

    Lease-signing is ‘almost a done deal’ By: Jeff Milgram    The building that housed Harry’s Luncheonette for almost 40 years will not remain vacant much longer.    A new tenant has been found for the building at 16 Witherspoon St., closed since an early morning fire on July 12, 1999, and a lease will be signed shortly,…

  • Council approves Pyne Woods money

    D&R Greenway will get $40,000 from township By: Lea Kahn    Township Council gave final approval to a $40,000 bond ordinance this week, paving the way toward the Delaware and Raritan Greenway’s acquisition of a 33-acre parcel of woodlands on Poe Road.    The council also approved an ordinance to extinguish the township’s rights to the paper…