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Local Industries & Publications
Stanley Bostitch
“The world headquarters of Stanley Bostitch, a division of the Stanley Works, is located on eighty acres on South County Trail in East Greenwich. The company’s largest plant and executive offices occupy the location from which Bostitch directs its worldwide operations and sales activities. There are roughly 800 people employed at the East Greenwich facility, and another approximately 2,000 sales, service, marketing, production, and distribution personnel located throughout the world.
Bostitch is a leading global brand famous for its line of stapling, nailing tools and fasteners, specialty industrial fastening solutions, and office products. In addition to Rhode Island, Bostitch operates U.S. manufacturing facilities in Connecticut, Indiana, and Kentucky. Internationally, Stanley Bostitch manufactures in China, Taiwan, Poland, Italy and South Africa. Bostitch sells and distributes in nearly every country in the world.”
Electronic Publications
MY02818.com
MY02818.com was launched in early 2009 to focus on news and information about 02818 - the zip code of which East Greenwich and the Cowesett and and Potowomut neighborhoods of Warwick are part. The goal of the online news site is to be the "digital dashboard" for any one living or working in02818, and a digital "town Green" for the community as a whole.
MY02818.com publishes and updates daily and offers readers -up-to-date news focused on government, schools, sports and business. Its Voices section features perspective and opinion by residents and other local newsmakers. the On the Town section details happenings and entertainment in the neighborhood and an At Home section provides community-specific tips and information on home care and entertaining at home. In addition to daily news stories and hotos, the site features local entertainment and restaurant listings together with news vidoes, photo galleries, community calendars and weekly polls. A "quick list" containing fequently dialed phone numbers, an area Yellow Paes list and Accuweather for 02818 are also offered.
Unlike traditional media, My02818.com offers users two-way communication - a feature only available to Internet-based news organizations - and its story pages are filled with reader perspepctives and opinions, one of the most often - visited features of this site.
My02818.com is available free to useers, as there are no subscription charges or registrations required unless a useer wishes to comment on a particular news item.
Between March and November 2009, MY02818.com attracted more tehan 170,000 visitors who have accessed nearly a million pageviews. Because of its popularity and success to date, it was selected in mid-2009 as the "Best Local Website" in Rhode Island by Readers of Rhode Island Monthly Magazine.
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Magazines
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.
South County Living
Independent Newspapers publishes South County Living 7 times a year, monthly from May to August with addtional editions in the Spring, Fall and Holiday seasons. The summere magazine, which serves residents and tourists, is full of things to do and places to go. The magazine is an all-glossy publication, with each issue featuring a longer news piece, award-winning photography, profiles of interesting people, chef interviews, how-to-craft stories and informtive articles about the area's history, shopping and attractions. Distribution is through Chambers of Commerce, retail outlets and by Real Estate agents who give them to clients interested in re-locating to the area.
SO Rhode Island Magazine
SO Rhode Island is a free, large-format lifestyle magazine covering South County from East Greenwich to Westerly. Launched in September 2007 by the publishers of providence Monthly, East Side Monthly and The Bay magazines, SO took off quickly and has been a bigger success that anyone could have anticipated. The circulation has since increased and currently stands at 18,000 copies per month. This full-color magazine is distributed to restaurants, coffee shops, boutiques, art galleries and many more locations throughout southern Rhode Island during the third week of every month.
SO is the must-read resource for anyone interested in the dining, nightlife, arts, culture and people that make southern Rhode Island such a great place to live. There are interviews with local personalities, insider knowledge of local retailers and restaurants and information on upcoming events throughout the state.
SO Rhode Island welcomes reader input and information about events, people and places that merit editorial coverage. The editors can be contacted via email at so@sorhodeisland.com, or news items and press releases can be mailed to their office at 167 Valley Street, Providence, RI 02909. the phone number is 401-521-0023 and the website is http://www.sorhodeisland.com/ .
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 Bryan Lucier, P.O. Box 244, North Kingstown, RI, 02852. The office, located at 10 High Street in Wakefield, can be reached by fax at 792-9176 or by e-mail at editorial@neindependent.com. For more information call 294-8700. www.neindependent.com
Independent Newspapers publishes South County Living seven times a year - monthly from May to August, with additional editions in the Spring, Fall and Holiday seasons. The summer magazine, which serves residents and tourists, is full of things to do and places to go. Approximately 20,000 copies are distributed free in May, June, July and August. In the shoulder seasons, the magazine has a free distribution of 12,000 to 20,000, targeting newcomers and residents.
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 Courier, and the Kent County Daily times 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 fax 884-9819 or e-mail Jonathan Gibbs jgibbs@ricentral.com .
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