founded 1996 headquarters 6 blackstone valley place suite 204 lincoln rhode island 02865 united states key people thomas v. ward publisher james quinn deputy publisher marcia green editor products five weekly newspapers in northern rhode island website valleybreeze.com breeze publications is a privately owned publisher based in lincoln rhode island serving northern and western providence county with five free tabloid format weekly newspapers . founded in 1996 by thomas v. ward & james quinn breeze publications began at first produced in ward s living room with its flagship title the valley breeze which later grew to two editions . in 2006 the company acquired two other weeklies in neighboring towns . in 2009 they also started a new paper which covers pawtucket . the papers now employ 19 full time and eight part time employees . 1 contents 1 properties 2 sisters and competitors 3 references 4 external links properties edit each of the breeze newspapers is printed on tabloid sized pages and distributed free in the towns it covers every thursday except for the north providence breeze and the valley breeze pawtucket edition which are published on wednesdays . the north providence breeze originally called the north star when it was founded in 1997 breeze acquired the free weekly covering north providence in 2006 and rebranded it . it does not have a website of its own but north providence news is posted on the valley breeze & observer site . the valley breeze cumberland lincoln edition ward s & quinn s first breeze newspaper the valley breeze has covered cumberland and lincoln rhode island since 1996 . it has a distribution of 17 500 copies per week . the valley breeze north smithfield blackstone woonsocket edition the success of the valley breeze led to the establishment of a second edition in 1999 covering north smithfield and woonsocket rhode island . in 2001 the newspaper began covering blackstone massachusetts . the valley breeze & observer called the observer when breeze bought it in 2006 the valley breeze & observer was converted from paid to free delivery . it covers foster glocester scituate and smithfield rhode island in western providence county . the observer was founded in 1955 . the valley breeze pawtucket edition ward s & quinn s fifth breeze newspaper the valley breeze has covered pawtucket rhode island since 2009 . it runs 8 000 copies per week . sisters and competitors edit breeze papers compete with the providence journal the only statewide daily newspaper and with the risn operations dailies the call and the times in woonsocket and nearby pawtucket respectively . in blackstone the valley breeze competes with the telegram & gazette of worcester massachusetts and with the milford daily news of milford massachusetts . all four breeze newspapers are members of rhode island newspaper group an advertising sales consortium that consists of five weekly newspaper publishers in suburban providence . other member publishers are beacon communications east bay newspapers hathaway publishing and southern rhode island newspapers . 2 references edit the valley breeze about us accessed march 24 2007 . rinewspapergroup.com accessed march 24 2007 . external links edit valley breeze about us retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title breeze publications & oldid 729093629 categories companies based in rhode islandpublishing companies established in 1996newspaper companies of the united statescumberland rhode islandprovidence county rhode island navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 july 2016 at 21 00 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view