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Magazines & Newspapers

Magazine

East Greenwich Magazine

This hometown publication is filled with features, photographs and news of people and events in the community. Because it is locally owned and managed, the publication is able to focus entirely on East Greenwich, Cowesett and Potowomut, celebrating all that makes living here enjoyable.
By the first of each month, East Greenwich Magazine arrives in the mail, free of charge, at every home and business in the 02818 zip code. Direct mailed to 9,000 addresses, it is the only publication that reaches the entire community.
East Greenwich Magazine welcomes news releases, community and club events, engagement and wedding announcements and pictures and articles that pertain to the East Greenwich community.
Deadline for all departments is noon on the 12th of each month for the next month's issue. Mail or drop items off at 378 Main Street, lower level or e-mail to EGMagazine@cox.net The phone number is 885-3447, fax is 885-0562.

Newspapers

The North East Independent

The North East Independent is a locally owned non-chain weekly newspaper tht covers the towns of East Greenwich and North Kingstown as well as the villages of Potowomut and Cowesett in Warwick. Its sister paper, the South County Independent, covers Charlestown, Narragansett and South Kingstown. The papers remain two of the very few non-chain or corporate owned newspapers in Rhode Island. Started in April 1999, the North East Independent is published every Thursday. It is available on local newsstands and by subscription for $25.00 per year.
The Independent welcomes news releases about community events, club and group listings, wedding, engagement and birth announcements and other community news items. Deadline for these items is Friday afternoon the week before publication. The paper also serves as a forum for discussion of town issues through its opinion page. Letters to the editor are welcome and should be received by Monday for that week's paper, as space permits.
The paper has been honored with several photography, writing and design awards from the New England Press Association and Rhode Island Press Association since its inception, including a first place award in 2001 for General Excellence among newspapers with circulation higher than 10,000 by the New England Press Association.
News items can be mailed to Editor Kristen Cyr, P.O. Box 244, North Kingstown, RI, 02852. The office, located at 203 Main Street in Wakefield, can be reached by fax at 295-9299 or by e-mail at editorial@neindependent.com. For more information call 294-8700. www.neindependent.com

The Pendulum

The East Greenwich Pendulum newspaper, is published every Thursday. One of the oldest continuously published weeklies in the country, the East Greenwich Pendulum, was first published in 1854.
With circulation of about 3,500, the paper serves all of East Greenwich as well as the Cowesett and Potowomut sections of Warwick. The East Greenwich Pendulum, the North Kingstown Standard Times, the Narragansett Times, the Chariho Times, the Coventry Courie, The Westerly Shoppe,r The South County Spectator and the Peddler are newspapers published by Southern Rhode Island Newspapers of Wakefield, RI. Combined, the six papers reach over 88,000 readers in the West Bay and South County areas.
In recent years the East Greenwich Pendulum has been honored with numerous awards from the New England Press Association and Rhode Island Press Association.
A hometown paper, the East Greenwich Pendulum welcomes news releases about local activities and story ideas. They can be mailed to P.O. Box 350, East Greenwich or dropped off at the East Greenwich Pendulum office at 580 Main Street. Local subscriptions are available for $32.00 a year.
For more information call 884-4662 or fax 884-9819.