I often write about our advertising Sponsors because they play such a vital role in the life of our community. They recognize the value of Newtown Square and its residents, and they understand that supporting our hometown and our hometown magazines, gets recognized monthly for contributing more while operating a local business. Their sponsorship of our community is recognized by our readers, who naturally want to return that same loyalty through their first-choice buying decisions. Loyalty is a good thing. So is rewarding the businesses you see supporting our local community.
We now know that Buying Local is strongly related to hometown pride because readers of Newtown Square 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 Newtown Square 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 NewtownSquareMag.com.
The Sponsors you see on our pages have become familiar faces in our community—not just as advertisers, but as partners who are Bringing People Together, which is 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 monthly by our publishing company, Best Version Media, including your hometown magazine, Newtown Square Friends & Neighbors. That’s because hometown sponsorship works!
We can all be thankful that we belong to a community like Newtown Square, with local businesses, I call Hometown Heroes because they serve us while showing us our community is as important to them as it is to us who they offer to serve through their local business.