“It’s the mail event of the month.” That’s how one reader described how she feels when the new monthly issue of Newtown Square Friends & Neighbors arrives in her mail. And why not? Most readers tell me they love to see if they know the family on the cover of our latest issue of Newtown Square’s hometown magazine, in print and online at www.NewtownSquareMag.com.
When friends and relatives of Newtown Square homeowners visit and find our hometown magazine on a countertop or coffee table, it often leads to a call or email request to be added to our magazine mailing list, or to ask how another hometown could begin having a similar magazine to serve up hometown pride. The compliments are great, but those calls and emails always make me wonder if I can do more for a wider community, to be Bringing People Together through our unique brand of social media in print.
Our publishing company, Best Version Media, publishes over a thousand hometown magazines similar to our Newtown Square Friends & Neighbors magazine, several serving other nearby communities in Delaware County including Marple, Springfield, Middletown, Garnet Valley and Chadds Ford. Are more coming? I can’t say right now, but you can expect news in the coming months.
Our advertising Sponsors also agree that where other advertising tries, we succeed in Bringing People Together. And not just friends and neighbors within a community, but also residents with their local business owners, which depend on each other, maybe not as much for neighborly friendship, and more so for products and services a community needs. But keep in mind that many of our local business owners also live in our community as a friend and neighbor!
Every community needs products and services to flourish. The presence of local businesses reflects a community’s standard of living, along with the community’s real estate values, which funds public school budgets used to educate local children.
Local businesses only remain when local residents use their buying power to buy locally, from local businesses who are recognized as those who give back to the community. That’s where hometown pride intersects with hometown loyalty, awarded to the advertising Sponsors of our magazine.
If you enjoy Newtown Square’s hometown magazine, recognize it is the monthly gift from our trusted advertising Sponsors seen on these pages. They deserve our expressed loyalty in return by our choice to do business with them first whenever possible, in gratitude for their support of Newtown Square residents by choosing to use their advertising budgets on us, which makes our hometown magazine possible.
Use the gift of this June issue to read about Daren Grande, our 2022 Newtown Square Friend & Neighbor of The Year. Consider how fortunate we are to be able to honor one of our own for his significant service to our community. And consider too how we are all honored by our advertising Sponsors. By their choice to advertise in our community, they are telling us that Newtown Square is a great place to live and do business, and how important we are to the success of their business.
Bob Blaisse
Publisher
Newtown Square Friends & Neighbors