The Leader-Vindicator is a weekly newspaper serving New Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and the surrounding community.
[1] It is owned by Independent Publications, under the Community Media Group of Frankfort, Illinois.
The New Bethlehem Vindicator was founded in 1879 as a seven column Independent paper,[3] expanding to eight pages in 1880.
[6] Counting his work at the Bethlehem Leader Hepler had at that point been editor and later publisher of the weekly newspaper for almost forty-five years.
[7] The paper was sold to James Shaffer in 1986, but Andrews stayed on as co-publisher until his death in 1996.