VIST Financial Sold To New York Company

These mergers are ridiculous!

Spring Township-based VIST Financial Corp. was sold today to Tompkins Financial Corp. for about $86 million.

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‘Welcome Back, Kotter’ star Robert Hegyes dies at 60

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This makes me feel OLD!

Robert Hegyes, who played Juan Epstein on ’70s sitcom “Welcome Back, Kotter,” died Thursday, the New Jersey Star-Ledger reports. Hegyes, who died of an apparent heart attack after suffering chest pains at his Metuchen, N.J., home, was 60.

Hegyes had not been in good health for the past two years, his brother Mark Hegyes told the paper. The actor had suffered a previous heart attack in recent years.

Police responded to an emergency call from Hegyes’ home at approximately 9 a.m. He was transported to JFK Medical Center in Edison, N.J., but at that point he had gone into full cardiac arrest.

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