In wake of press breakdown, Providence Journal prints Beacon

Posted 1/22/19

Thanks to the Providence Journal and Southern Rhode Island Newspapers, Warwick Beacon readers got a paper last Thursday, although some papers didn't get it in the mail until Friday. For years, the Beacon and its sister paper in Cranston, the Cranston

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In wake of press breakdown, Providence Journal prints Beacon

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Thanks to the Providence Journal and Southern Rhode Island Newspapers, Warwick Beacon readers got a paper last Thursday, although some papers didn’t get it in the mail until Friday.

For years, the Beacon and its sister paper in Cranston, the Cranston Herald, have been printed at the Attleboro Sun Chronicle, a daily paper covering Attleboro. The completed pages of the Beacon and Herald are sent electronically to Attleboro with the papers going on the press before midnight for distribution the following day. Papers are usually delivered to Warwick stores and the Warwick Post Office by 4:30 a.m. on the date of publication.

Last Wednesday at 8 p.m., the system came to a halt when one of the major motors on the Attleboro press overheated and the unit was shut down. Yet the Beacon was printed thanks to the Rhode Island publishing community.

Jody A. Boucher, group publisher for publications including Rhode Island Suburban Newspapers and Southern Rhode Island Newspapers, stepped in. All of those papers – which include The Independent, The Kent County Daily Times, The Westerly Sun, The Woonsocket Call and the Pawtucket Times – all print at the Providence Journal.

The owners of RISN and SRIN acquired The Sun Chronicle last year under a new corporate entity called TriboroMassachusetts News Media Inc., and Boucher serves as the Attleboro paper’s publisher now as well.

Using the relationship she has with the Journal, Boucher outlined the situation and the Journal adjusted its schedule to print the Beacon early Thursday morning. The paper was then shipped to Attleboro for the insertion of supplements and addressing before being shipped to Warwick.

Boucher said Monday that repairs to the press are being made and it should be fully operational by this week. Meanwhile, the Providence Journal will print this week’s editions of the Beacon and the Herald.

“We appreciate the understanding of our subscribers who didn’t get their Beacon until the Friday mail,” Beacon Communications publisher John Howell said Monday. “But if it wasn’t for Boucher and the Providence Journal, we wouldn’t have had a Thursday Beacon. I can’t thank them enough,” he said.

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  • richardcorrente

    The Beacon is worth waiting for.

    Happy Valentines everyone.

    Rick Corrente

    The Taxpayers Mayor

    Wednesday, January 23, 2019 Report this

  • wrkvoter

    corrente is not any mayor. cool that projo helped out here!

    Thursday, January 24, 2019 Report this