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On my mind...
Moving into the Internet Age
 It has been an exciting time,
bringing out four magazines(soon to be
five with the addition of the Bethel Park
Source) We’ve watched them become
accepted in each community, enjoyed
the enthusiasm readers are showing for
the editorial content, and shared the
pride in gaining the respect of township
and school district personnel, and the
support of local businesses.
But we are not the kind of
publishers who just sit back and savor
the good times. So, with barely a
moment to catch our breath, we have
decided to take things up a notch and
go full tilt at the 21st century. We’re
moving into the Internet Age.
To build on and complement the
strong growth of our magazines, we are
introducing a full web site operation. In
basic terms, we are acknowledging that
more and more residents have Internet
access and want lightning-fast access to
information. To facilitate this desire, we
have designed a web site for this and
our other four magazines.
This web site capability will, we
hope, grow into the most exciting
information service you’ll find in the
South Hills. We’ve spent enormous
amounts of time and creative energy in
providing a virtual world of data that
offers convenient access to everything
you need to know about your
community. At the push of a button, you
will be linked to school events, township
improvements, summer activities, library
news, sports schedules and local
business developments.
Of course, until now we have been
providing such information in each issue
of our magazines. And we’ll continue to
incorporate as much of this data as we
can accommodate in each of our
magazines. But the fact is that each
community is growing so rapidly that
they are creating more school, cultural,
sports, and administrative activities
than we can find space to give a full
accounting of in our magazines.
The Internet is an exciting solution.
Our web sites will include huge
amounts of information: some, like
listing township board members,
will rarely change; others, like sports
schedules, that will change each season,
and yet others, like heavy snow storm
activity, that will have an hourly impact
on our lives. We’ll include all the data
that will affect your life, your school,
your work and your business. We hope
it will be so comprehensive you’ll never
need to go anywhere else for the
information you’ll be able to
conveniently access on our web sites.
With this, we offer our best to you
as you enjoy our magazines and hope
you will soon find our web sites to be
just as useful tools as our publications.
— M.C. and Brian McKee, Publishers
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