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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.
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.
Disabled people were no longer to be locked away in custodial institutions without treatment or education. [3] 1971 – The Mental Patients' Liberation Project was initiated in New York City. [3] 1971 – The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 was amended to bring people with disabilities (other than blindness) into the sheltered workshop system. [3]
The Same Chance report was based on two surveys were conducted on behalf of AsIAm – the first, by Core Research assessed public attitudes to autistic people by surveying 1,000 members of the general public. [2] The second survey was of 944 parents, carers and autistic people over the age of 18. [2]
Bill O Boyle, The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. October 26, 2023 at 9:19 PM Brown was speaking at Thursday grand opening of Keystone Mission's new Innovation Center for Homeless & Poverty at the ...
The Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program (VB-MAPP) is an assessment and skills-tracking system to assess the language, learning and social skills of children with autism or other developmental disabilities. A strong focus of the VB-MAPP is language and social interaction, which are the predominant areas of weakness in ...
Aug. 13—WILKES-BARRE — Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump will visit the Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza for the fifth time on Saturday, leaving many wondering if ...
Ed Lewis, The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. July 21, 2024 at 6:32 AM Intrigued, I quickly did a search in our newspaper archives and came up empty but felt compelled, driven and eager to ...