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Sun Publishing Company
Company typePrivate
IndustryNewspapers
Headquarters99 Mechanic Street, Pawcatuck CT 06379 United States
Key people
Eliot White, President & Publisher
David Tranchida, VP, Editor
Shawn Palmer, Senior VP, Chief Revenue Officer
ProductsThe Westerly Sun and four weeklies in Connecticut and Rhode Island

Sun Publishing Company is a daily and weekly newspaper publisher in southwest Rhode Island and southeast Connecticut, United States. It is a Westerly, Rhode Island-based subsidiary of Record-Journal Publishing Company of Meriden, Connecticut.

The company's flagship publication is a daily, The Westerly Sun. It also publishes four weekly newspapers in neighboring towns also covered by the daily.

Weeklies

For Sun's only daily publication, see The Westerly Sun.

Sun Publishing's four weeklies include three covering Rhode Island towns, based in the Westerly headquarters—the Charlestown Press, Westerly Pawcatuck Press and Wood River Press—and one Connecticut publication, the Mystic River Press, based at 15 Holmes Street, Mystic, Connecticut.

The four weeklies share an editor, Dave Smith.

Charlestown Press
Covering Charlestown, the villages of Kenyon and Shannock in Richmond, and parts of South Kingstown. Total-market postal delivery every Thursday.
Mystic River Press
Covering Groton, North Stonington and Stonington, Connecticut, including the villages of Mystic, Old Mystic and West Mystic. Free "requester" postal delivery every Thursday.
Westerly Pawcatuck Press
Covering Westerly (including the village of Bradford) and the Pawcatuck section of Stonington, Connecticut. Total-market carrier delivery every Wednesday.
Wood River Press
Covering Exeter, Hopkinton and parts of Richmond, Rhode Island—including the villages of Ashaway, Carolina, Hope Valley, Rockville, West Kingston, Wood River Junction and Wyoming. Total-market postal delivery every Thursday.

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