Editor’s Note: March 2017

Frontdoors is what I consider to be a “glue” publication.

An early newspaper mentor of mine used to tell me that our small but mighty publication was the “glue” of the community – binding disparate lives together for the purpose of telling their stories, and a community’s collective story, in one single place, day after day.

With Frontdoors, boldly created by Julia Patrick 15 years ago, the thread that will run through it — and has always run through it — is the concept of giving. It’s the stories of people giving their time, or their sweat, or their hard-earned money to help others or help the community at large.

I look forward to building on that ideal. We are looking to expand this niche — community and giving — in scope and geography. The online magazine will continue to incorporate more and di erent features. We will populate frontdoorsmedia.com with relevant and compelling stories about people, nonpro ts, the arts and giving.

I once was urged by an editor in New York, via Blackberry at a very late hour, to push on a story he was urgent to get. One email he sent simply read “fast fast fast,” which
I took to heart, and hurried. He also would walk around the newsroom exhorting reporters to get scoops, to beat competitors by being rst with information.

That’s what I wish for Frontdoors — to be fast and first on the stories that matter to you. And, of course, to be the glue that helps bind us here in the Valley of the Sun. To use yet another play on our publication name, our door is open — so please feel free to reach out with your story by emailing me at editor@frontdoorsmedia.com.

Onward!

— Mike Saucier