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In 1727, Franklin and his wife, Anne (1696–1763), joined his brother John (1690–1756), already established as a soap maker, in Newport, Rhode Island. Beginning in August of that year, Franklin began printing almanacs and the newspaper The Rhode Island Gazette, Rhode Island's first newspaper, which ran for a year. [6]
Jewish Rhode Island, published monthly and owned by the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island. Based in Providence, but covering the entire state. Mercury, published monthly and owned by Gatehouse Media. An alternative weekly-style paper covering Rhode Island arts, entertainment and food in Newport and Middletown.
She published the Newport Mercury, printed an almanac series, and printed Rhode Island paper currency. She was the country’s first female newspaper editor, [ 2 ] the first woman to write an almanac, and the first woman inducted into the University of Rhode Island 's Journalism Hall of Fame.
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His widow, Genevieve, remarried after the war, had five children and lived to be 100, dying in Newport in 2018. About 2003, Wartenberg visited the Normandy American Cemetery with Sid (who died in ...
The Newport Daily News is a six-day daily newspaper serving Newport County, Rhode Island. It publishes in the mornings on weekdays (Monday through Friday) and in the morning on Saturdays. The Daily News was the state's largest family-owned newspaper until it was purchased by Gatehouse Media in 2017.
Newport is a seaside city on Aquidneck Island in Rhode Island, United States.It is located in Narragansett Bay, approximately 33 miles (53 km) southeast of Providence, 20 miles (32 km) south of Fall River, Massachusetts, 74 miles (119 km) south of Boston, and 180 miles (290 km) northeast of New York City.
This is a list of all daily newspapers in Rhode Island. For weeklies, please see List of newspapers in Rhode Island. The Boston Globe (Rhode Island) of Boston, owned by Boston Globe Media Partners, via their Providence-based bureau, covering all of Rhode Island; The Brown Daily Herald of Providence, owned independently, covering Brown University