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RIcentral.com is a "portal" site designed to give our viewers easy access to the Web sites of your favorite publications in Southern Rhode Island. The daily newspapers serving this area are the Kent County Daily Times (West Warwick) and Warwick Daily Times. The The Narragansett Times is published twice a week. Weekly publications are The Standard-Times, The East Greenwich Pendulum, The Chariho Times, and The Coventry Courier.

One of the great advantages of RIcentral.com is the opportunity for viewers to access the collective classified sections of our publications. This aggregated classified ad database is one of the largest offerings in the region. Viewers are sure to find what they need at RIcentral.com's classified section.

Also on RIcentral.com, viewers can access our online Business Directory (Yellow Pages) which lists every local business and commercial operation in the region. You can also print out directions and maps to any of these businesses or, better yet, get directions and a map from any U.S. location to any other U.S. location.

In addition to our collective classified ad database and our comprehensive Business Directory, we publish the top local stories, features and pictures from our publications, with emphasis on community news and sports.

RIcentral.com now offers stock quotes in our new Personal Finance section, local weather updated continuously, personal ads, news from the Associated Press, tons of fun online games, horoscopes and crossword puzzles. And this is just the beginning!

Our plans are to evolve RIcentral.com to become an indispensable source of useful and reliable community news and information for the people of our region. We are interested in what you have to say about this site, so please let us know. We hope you will come back often.