Seven years ago this month, I began meeting with Marple Newtown business owners and organization leaders to ask them to join me in a mission to bring our friends and neighbors together (in print and online), through a new hometown magazine. That mission hinged on loyal readers transferring their loyalty to local businesses which made our hometown pride project possible by becoming advertising Sponsors.
Four years into our “Bringing People Together” mission our efforts expanded to include residents of Edgmont, and parts of Willistown Township, by launching a third local magazine, Newtown Edgmont Friends & Neighbors, in print and online at TheNEMag.com. The businesses you see advertising on these pages took the bet that our Bringing People Together mission would succeed, and it has.
It’s Springtime now, a time of renewed notice of many things valued. If the simple pleasure of reading your hometown magazine deserves a new Spring notice, that you very much have grown to anticipate reading each new issue, please take a little extra notice this month of the advertising Sponsors who make it all possible. And if it springs to mind that you are a loyal participant in this Bringing People Together mission, consider springing your loyalty onto the local businesses who have sprung for this new feel-good issue of hometown pride. Call or stop in on one of our advertising Sponsors to thank them for the monthly investment they make on your behalf, and whenever possible, doing business with them first in return for the loyalty they show to us and our community.