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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.
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