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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.
Ann Bernatitus was appointed as Ensign in the Navy Nurse Corps in 1936, after graduating from the Wyoming Valley Homeopathic Hospital Training School in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in 1934, and the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate Hospital post-graduate program in operating room nursing in 1935.
Citizens' Voice - Wilkes-Barre; Courier-Express - DuBois; The Daily American - Somerset; The Daily Collegian - University Park; The Daily Item - Sunbury; The Daily ...
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.
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 ...
On November 27, 1907, the Wilkes-Barre Times printed a notice that it and the Wilkes-Barre Leader, both afternoon dailies, would merge, creating The Times Leader with the first newspaper to be dated Monday December 2, 1907. The Times Leader, in the heart of coal country, was subject to a very bitter strike that began October 6, 1978.
John L. Gronski (b. 1956) is a retired United States Army officer. A veteran of the Iraq War, he served from 1978 to 2019 and attained the rank of major general.His decorations included two awards of the Army Distinguished Service Medal, two awards of the Legion of Merit, and the Bronze Star Medal.
William Scranton was born on July 19, 1917, while the Scranton family was on vacation at a cottage in Madison, Connecticut. [6] He was the son of Worthington Scranton, a wealthy Pennsylvania businessman who was the president of the Scranton Gas and Water Company, and Marion Margery (Warren) Scranton, a member of the Republican National Committee for over two decades.