I often write about our advertising Sponsors because they play such a vital role in the life of our community. They value our magazine readers and know it’s their advertising sponsorship that makes it possible for our hometown magazine to be Bringing People Together through a monthly celebration of hometown pride. That kind of contribution, which not all local businesses make, is well-deserving of our returned loyalty.
We know that Buying Local is strongly related to hometown pride because readers of Newtown Edgmont Friends & Neighbors magazine have proven it, while forming a partnership with local business leaders who make receiving this hometown magazine possible. I’ve lived in our community for over 30 years. My wife, Jean, and I have raised four sons here. We’re proud of our town, the people of our town and the local businesses who, like most residents, get involved or contribute in making our community a better place to live. But here’s what I have come to know since becoming the Publisher of our hometown magazine. The businesses of our community had vision early on, even while seeing what’s happening with online buying and big box stores, but they never stopped believing in the benefit of bringing us together through our free hometown magazine in print and online at TheNEMag.com.
The advertising Sponsors you see on these pages have become familiar faces in our community—not just as advertisers, but as partners who are Bringing People Together, which is also our motto. Their support covers the cost of producing each issue of our magazine, which in turn connects us through stories about local residents, organizations and places we care about.
We’re not alone in our hometown pride revealed by our hometown magazine. In fact, more than thirteen hundred communities across North America are served by monthly hometown magazines mailed by our publishing company, Best Version Media, including your hometown magazine,
Newtown Edgmont Friends & Neighbors. That’s because hometown sponsorship works! We can all be thankful our community has particular local business owners (I call Hometown Heroes), who believe that putting back into the communities that are important to their success, is more than
just a business decision.