PUBLISHER’S NOTE T
HERE IS SO MUCH I WANT TO SAY, BUT I’LL START with thanks for reading the premier edition of Mount Pleasant’s new magazine. We hope you will enjoy these pages and our
website,
www.MountPleasantMagazine.com and our green online edition,
www.MountPleasantMagazine.com/GreenEdition. I am getting ahead of myself. Let’s go back to 1985 when I began publishing East Cooper Magazine. Mount Pleasant was not the same town we know today. Our population was only 21,859. In 2011, it stands at 67,843. Tere were very few businesses, which, of course, meant
there were fewer advertisers to support our publishing ef- forts. We were ahead of our time and, because of that, we decided to discontinue the publication. But we always re- membered the concept of a magazine for Mount Pleasant. Over the past two years, I gave increasing consider- ation to bringing back East Cooper Magazine as Mount Pleasant Magazine. As we moved forward to publish the premier edition, it was surprising and rewarding to find that so many people remembered East Cooper. Te re- sponse to Mount Pleasant Magazine has been the most enthusiastic I’ve ever received for a new magazine.
Published quarterly, Mount Pleasant Magazine will be the new house- guest to 10,000 Mount Pleasant homeowners to whom we are mailing a copy. Another 10,000 Mount Pleasant residents will be able to pick up Mount Pleasant Magazine at Harris Teeter, Piggly Wiggly and restaurants, boutiques, businesses and professional offices throughout the town. Everyone at Media Services has a passion for their work, and we all hope
you will find the results entertaining and enlightening. Few Mount Pleas- ant residents have more passion about our town than Mayor Billy Swails. Tis comes through in the article on page 6. We also interviewed Peggy Swails; read what she has to say about her husband. Every day we dodge those orange cones and maneuver through the traffic congestion on Johnnie Dodds Boulevard. We want to know where it’s lead- ing and if it’s worth it. Editor Margaret Ann Michels outlines how getting through town is changing. Your Facebook friends or neighbors can read the magazine online. Just send them a link to our green edition at
www.MountPleasantMagazine.com/ GreenEdition. Before you turn the page, I want to bring your attention to the Longev- ity Logo in our advertisements. Te logo identifies businesses that have been offering their products and services to Mount Pleasant residents for a decade or more. As you visit all our advertisers’ businesses, please mention you saw them in Mount Pleasant Magazine. As Mount Pleasant Magazine grows, we’d like to hear what you want to see and read about. Send suggestions to Editor@MountPleasantMagazine. com or visit us at
Facebook.com/MountPleasantMagazine. Tanks for spending time with us. Until November – happy reading!
— BILL MACCHIO Publisher
Vol. 1, Issue 1 Fall 2011
Editor MARGARET ANN MICHELS
Editor@MountPleasantMagazine.com Copy Editor
BRIAN SHERMAN
Art Director - Editorial CHRIS NORDEN
Art Director - Advertising DANA COLEMAN
Contributing Writers MEREDITH ARMSTRONG STACY E. DOMINGO BILL FARLEY
BARBARA MILLEN PATRICK EILEEN ROBINSON SMITH WENDY SWAT SNYDER
Contributing Photographers GARY COLEMAN KAYLA JONES
STEFANIE MCCARRON CHRIS SMITH
Internet
GEORGE CONKLIN SETH FURCHGOTT
Publisher BILL MACCHIO
Publisher@MountPleasantMagazine.com
Associate Publisher/Sales Manager JOEL CARDWELL
Sales@MountPleasantMagazine.com
Media Consultants BERT WOOD BILL KNIGHT BRANDON CLARK
Business Manager CAROL COLLINS
Mount Pleasant Magazine is published four times per year by Media Services, Inc.
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All rights reserved. Reproduction electronically or in print format without the expressed written consent of the publisher is strictly prohibited and a violation of U.S. copyright laws.
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