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The newspaper was founded in 1978 by striking employees of the Wilkes-Barre Publishing Company, which published the Times Leader.Established on October 9 of that year, The Citizens' Voice was initially a "strike newspaper" published by the local Newspaper Guild, but quickly grew to become a direct competitor to the Times Leader.
Their son, Livingston Paine French, was born at Wilkes-Barre on May 6, 1911. Harry Livingston French died at New York City on January 16, 1928. [ 5 ] His business partner, Frederick McCormick died on September 2, 1929.
Jay C. Smith (June 5, 1928 – May 12, 2009) [1] was an American high school principal in Pennsylvania who was convicted and sentenced to death in 1986 for the 1979 murder of one of his school's teachers, Susan Reinert, and her two children, Karen and Michael.
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Mark Arthur Ciavarella Jr. (born March 3, 1950) is an American convicted felon and former President Judge of the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, who was involved, along with fellow judge Michael Conahan, in the "kids for cash" scandal in 2008, [4] for which he was sentenced to 28 years in federal prison in 2011.
Times Leader and The Citizens' Voice are the two largest daily newspapers in Wilkes-Barre. The Wyoming Valley 's NBC affiliate, WBRE-TV 28, is the only television station licensed to Wilkes-Barre, but WNEP-TV 16 ( ABC ), WYOU 22 ( CBS ), WVIA-TV 44 ( PBS ), and WSWB 38 ( CW ), all in Scranton, WOLF-TV 56 ( Fox ) in Hazleton, and WQMY 53 ...
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
Narcissa Florence Foster was born July 19, 1868, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, [6] the daughter of Charles Dorrance Foster (1836–1909), an attorney and scion of a wealthy land-owning Pennsylvania family, [7] [8] and Mary Jane Hoagland Foster (1851–1930). [9] Her only sibling, a younger sister named Lillian, died of diphtheria in 1883 at ...