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On top of all the changes we’ve made here at Home Page Media Group, we have some new members on our editorial staff. We’d like to take a moment to properly introduce them, along with a little more information on faces you may already know.

Dear Friends of Home Page Media Group:

It’s time for us to wish you, your family and your businesses a happy, healthy and prosperous 2015 – may every good thing come your way.

It’s time for us to wish you, your family and your businesses a happy, healthy and prosperous 2015 – may every good thing come your way.

At your locally owned Home Page Media Group, we also hope you enjoy receiving daily reports of the latest ultra-local news coverage of Williamson County when you read our online coverage of the latest events in brentwoodhomepage.com, franklinhomepage.com, nolensvillehomepage.com, or springhillhomepage.com.

We also hope you’ll start out 2015 by accepting our invitation for you to “SAY YES” to the opportunity to make sure all of Williamson County continues to have a locally owned, credible and timely news source with FREE access to all.

Revenue raised through our “SAY YES” program supplements our advertising income, which remains the heart-and-soul of our business model. As a locally owned-and-operated, bootstrapped operation, our only “investors” are our local advertisers, section sponsors and those who “SAY YES’ by voluntarily subscribing.

One-time or monthly voluntary subscriptions of any amount are appreciated. Those who subscribe for $100 will be included in a Reader’s Council where you are invited to provide feedback and volunteer story ideas to the reporters.

As a growing LOCAL business, Home Page Media Group is part of the economic vitality of Williamson County and, more specifically, our four cities. Won’t you “SAY YES” today and become a voluntary subscriber to help ensure we are here for years to come?

YES! — I want to become a voluntary subscriber.

To take part, simply CLICK on a payment option below. Please note: You will leave our site and go to the PayPal payment site. We have been safely using PayPal for more than five years and consider it the safest way for you to help via your voluntary subscription.

If you prefer to subscribe the old-fashioned way, you can send a check to Home Page Media Group, P.O. Box 3704, Brentwood, TN 37024. If you have any questions, please email us at [email protected].

Thank you and Happy New Year !

Kelly Gilfillan

CEO – Executive Editor

Dear Friends of Home Page Media Group:

It’s time for us to wish you, your family and your businesses a happy, healthy and prosperous 2015 – may every good thing come your way.

At your locally owned Home Page Media Group, we hope you enjoy receiving daily reports of the latest ultra-local news coverage of Williamson County when you read our online coverage of the latest events in brentwoodhomepage.com, franklinhomepage.com, nolensvillehomepage.com, or springhillhomepage.com.

We also hope you’ll start out 2015 by accepting our invitation to “SAY YES” to the opportunity to make sure all of Williamson County continues to have a locally owned, credible and timely news source with FREE access to all.

Revenue raised through our “SAY YES” program supplements our advertising income, which remains the heart-and-soul of our business model. As a locally owned-and-operated, bootstrapped operation, our only “investors” are our local advertisers, section sponsors and those who “SAY YES’ by voluntarily subscribing.

One-time or monthly voluntary subscriptions of any amount are appreciated. Those who subscribe for $100 will be included in a Reader’s Council where you are invited to provide feedback and volunteer story ideas to the reporters.

As a growing LOCAL business, Home Page Media Group is part of the economic vitality of Williamson County and, more specifically, our four cities. Won’t you “SAY YES” today and become a voluntary subscriber to help ensure we are here for years to come?

YES! — I want to become a voluntary subscriber.

To take part, simply CLICK on a payment option below. Please note: You will leave our site and go to the PayPal payment site. We have been safely using PayPal for more than five years and consider it the safest way for you to help via your voluntary subscription.

If you prefer to subscribe the old-fashioned way, you can send a check to Home Page Media Group, P.O. Box 3704, Brentwood, TN 37024. If you have any questions, please email us at [email protected].

Thank you and Happy New Year !

Kelly Gilfillan

CEO – Executive Editor

Dear Friends of Home Page Media Group:

It’s time for us to wish you, your family and your businesses a happy, healthy and prosperous 2015 – may every good thing come your way.

It’s time for us to wish you, your family and your businesses a happy, healthy and prosperous 2015 – may every good thing come your way.

At your locally owned Home Page Media Group, we also hope you enjoy receiving daily reports of the latest ultra-local news coverage of Williamson County when you read our online coverage of the latest events in brentwoodhomepage.com, franklinhomepage.com, nolensvillehomepage.com, or springhillhomepage.com.

We also hope you’ll start out 2015 by accepting our invitation for you to “SAY YES” to the opportunity to make sure all of Williamson County continues to have a locally owned, credible and timely news source with FREE access to all.

Revenue raised through our “SAY YES” program supplements our advertising income, which remains the heart-and-soul of our business model. As a locally owned-and-operated, bootstrapped operation, our only “investors” are our local advertisers, section sponsors and those who “SAY YES’ by voluntarily subscribing.

One-time or monthly voluntary subscriptions of any amount are appreciated. Those who subscribe for $100 will be included in a Reader’s Council where you are invited to provide feedback and volunteer story ideas to the reporters.

As a growing LOCAL business, Home Page Media Group is part of the economic vitality of Williamson County and, more specifically, our four cities. Won’t you “SAY YES” today and become a voluntary subscriber to help ensure we are here for years to come?

YES! — I want to become a voluntary subscriber.

To take part, simply CLICK on a payment option below. Please note: You will leave our site and go to the PayPal payment site. We have been safely using PayPal for more than five years and consider it the safest way for you to help via your voluntary subscription.

If you prefer to subscribe the old-fashioned way, you can send a check to Home Page Media Group, P.O. Box 3704, Brentwood, TN 37024. If you have any questions, please email us at [email protected].

Thank you and Happy New Year !

Kelly Gilfillan

CEO – Executive Editor

Dear Friends of Home Page Media Group:

It’s time for us to wish you, your family and your businesses a happy, healthy and prosperous 2015 – may every good thing come your way.

It’s time for us to wish you, your family and your businesses a happy, healthy and prosperous 2015 – may every good thing come your way.

At your locally owned Home Page Media Group, we also hope you enjoy receiving daily reports of the latest ultra-local news coverage of Williamson County when you read our online coverage of the latest events in brentwoodhomepage.com, franklinhomepage.com, nolensvillehomepage.com, or springhillhomepage.com.

We also hope you’ll start out 2015 by accepting our invitation for you to “SAY YES” to the opportunity to make sure all of Williamson County continues to have a locally owned, credible and timely news source with FREE access to all.

Revenue raised through our “SAY YES” program supplements our advertising income, which remains the heart-and-soul of our business model. As a locally owned-and-operated, bootstrapped operation, our only “investors” are our local advertisers, section sponsors and those who “SAY YES’ by voluntarily subscribing.

One-time or monthly voluntary subscriptions of any amount are appreciated. Those who subscribe for $100 will be included in a Reader’s Council where you are invited to provide feedback and volunteer story ideas to the reporters.

As a growing LOCAL business, Home Page Media Group is part of the economic vitality of Williamson County and, more specifically, our four cities. Won’t you “SAY YES” today and become a voluntary subscriber to help ensure we are here for years to come?

YES! — I want to become a voluntary subscriber.

To take part, simply CLICK on a payment option below. Please note: You will leave our site and go to the PayPal payment site. We have been safely using PayPal for more than five years and consider it the safest way for you to help via your voluntary subscription.

If you prefer to subscribe the old-fashioned way, you can send a check to Home Page Media Group, P.O. Box 3704, Brentwood, TN 37024. If you have any questions, please email us at [email protected].

Thank you and Happy New Year !

Kelly Gilfillan

CEO – Executive Editor

By SUSAN LEATHERS & KELLY GILFILLAN

First in a series on Brentwood Home Page’s history as it celebrates its fourth anniversary.

A fourth anniversary isn’t as sexy as a first, or fifth, or as revered as much as a silver, gold or diamond one. But as Brentwood Home Page marks its official fourth anniversary this month, we want to begin to share with you, our readers, a few of the milestones that have brought us here.

A fourth anniversary isn’t as sexy as a first, or fifth, or as revered as much as a silver, gold or diamond one. But as Brentwood Home Page marks its official fourth anniversary this month, we want to begin to share with you, our readers, a few of the milestones that have brought us here. We also want to say thank you to those of you who have been with us from the start and all the rest who have joined us along the way.

In coming days, we’ll share our news story, our advertising story and a bit about our impact in and on the community.

Are we tooting our own horn? Yes, a bit. But anniversaries are a time to celebrate, and a time to reflect. With the official launch of our third site, Nolensville Home Page, it seems an appropriate time to do both.

Most all, it’s a time to say Thank You for reading, for contributing, for advertising and for supporting our advertisers. We truly see what we do as a public service — and one that is making an impact on the city we call home.

When we launched Brentwood Home Page as a local, independent online “newspaper without the pulp,”  we started at ground zero. We told ourselves, “Well, if there’s no news in Brentwood one day, we can always go out and take a feature photo.” One of our early advisers told us that when it came to marketing our first ads, we’d be selling “air” since we didn’t even have an actual website yet.

Today we’re happy to report we have never had a day without news; in fact, most days there’s more news than we can post. And we sold out our advertising inventory within two months. We had to quickly go back to the drawing board to add more.

It hasn’t been easy. And despite appearances, no one here is getting rich, far from it. But with pride we can announce that in its first four years, BHP has had 1,051,000 unique visitors, 3.3 million visits and over 7 million page views.

We have also grown our parent company, BrentWord Communications LLC. From our humble 2009 beginning in a home office in Meadowlake, in January 2011 we hung our shingle well, make that our big feathered “B”â€â€Âon an office building in Brentwood’s Town Center. We added BHP’s popular weekly Real Estate section on our first anniversary. We launched Franklin Home Page on our third, and now, on our fourth, Nolensville Home Page. In January of this year, we launched BrentWord Marketing.

The “Susan and Kelly show” has given way to a paid staff of talented and dedicated news, advertising, and design professionals. Joining them in our mission of providing the most comprehensive coverage of the city and Williamson County are our engaging columnists, a family of freelance sports writers and photographers, and many community correspondents.

Soon after our site went live, we were featured in a Nashville Business Journal story about the Ladies Who Launch organization. Less than four years later, in the spring of this year, we were honored to be named one of the journal’s Williamson County Impact Award recipients. The United Way of Williamson County honored us with its Excellence in Media Award last year.

Susan is a 2010 graduate of Leadership Brentwood and was a member of the 2013 inaugural Williamson County Schools Ambassadors class. Kelly will graduate from the regional Transit Citizen Leadership Academy this week and is a member of the Leadership Franklin’s Class of 2014.

As we reflect on our growth, we would be remiss to not mention our families our husbands and children, parents, in-laws, siblings and others who have walked through the wilderness with us, and who have supported us through the highs and lows of bootstrapping a business from scratch and all of the sacrifices that presents, personally and financially.

The news business isn’t always pretty. There are always good stories and bad to report. That’s why we’re here. From the beginning, we’ve sold Brentwood Home Page as being independent and credible. We strive every day to stay true to that course. And we’re still doing it at no charge to our readers.

Thanks again for being part of our story, and for helping us celebrate.

Susan Leathers and Kelly Gilfillan

Founding partners

Coming Thursday: A look at the business side of Brentwood Home Page.

Brentwood Home Page is supported by a great group of loyal advertisers.  Saying thank you to them is just not enough so we ask our readers to support those who support us.  Please do business with these great organizations and tell them thank you for supporting your local community newspaper.

Without these businesses, Brentwood Home Page could not provide the quality, independent daily news that we strive to bring Brentwood each day.

Brentwood Home Page wants to help you let the world know about the Milestones in your life! But we do have guidelines.  Milestones can be Eagle Scout honors, anniversary announcements, college graduations, and many other celebrations in your life that you want to share with your community.

Milestone announcements must be emailed to our office at [email protected] preferably in a Word document.

Brentwood Home Page wants to help you let the world know about the Milestones in your life. But we do have guidelines.  Milestones can be Eagle Scout honors, anniversary announcements, college graduations, and many other times in your life that you want to celebrate with your community.

Milestone announcements must be emailed to our office at [email protected] preferably in a Word document.

Provide us with all pertinent information and if you wish, attach a photograph.  Please put Milestone Announcement in the subject line.  No addresses will be permitted in this information for safety reasons. 

If you prefer to mail your announcement and picture, send to Brentwood Home Page, P.O. Box 3704, Brentwood, TN 37024.

Brentwood Home Page

We would love our readers help in identifying qualified leads for advertisers willing to support BHP’s mission – to provide a credible, independent and essential news source for Brentwood, while providing an affordable venue for businesses and services to target the city’s educated, affluent and tech-savvy demographics. To that end, BHP will offer a $25 gift card from for each qualified lead that turns into a sale.  How does our promotion work? Click Read More to find out!

Brentwood Home Page

From the start, Brentwood Home Page readers have been able to access daily news and information about Brentwood when and where they want it – all it takes is an internet connection or a smartphone. Best of all, it’s always been free.

But to remain that way, we would love our readers help in identifying qualified leads for advertisers willing to support BHP’s mission – to provide a credible, independent and essential news source for Brentwood, while providing an affordable venue for businesses and services to target the city’s educated, affluent and tech-savvy demographics.

To that end, BHP will offer a $25 gift card from for each qualified lead that turns into a sale. 

How does our promotion work? Go out and tell your favorite local and regional businesses that they should consider advertising with Brentwood Home Page. Tell them why you love it as a reader.  Then contact BHP co-owner and managing partner Kelly Gilfillan with the lead, which will be immediately contacted by our sales staff. If a sale is made, you will receive your choice of a Mere Bulls’ Restaurant, Accent Flowers or Roosters Men’s Grooming gift card.

 “We put out triple the headlines of our much-bigger competition with a skeleton staff,” said Gilfillan. “We do it because we are passionate about our community, our city and the schools which make up the lives we live.

“Caring about what you do and living side by side with those you write about drives you to do your best. But we have reached a point that we cannot sustain our coverage and growth without additional revenue.

“To keep our service free to readers, we must increase our advertising base. That’s why we’re asking for your help. We also encourage all of our readers to support our current advertisers. Without them, the daily, breaking news coverage Brentwood has come to rely on in the past two years would not be possible.

Send your advertising leads to [email protected] with AD LEAD in the subject line. Be sure to include contact information for the potential advertiser as well as your name, address and a daytime telephone number.

 “We appreciate so much the continual support of our readers,” said editor and publisher Susan Leathers. “We want to continually improve Brentwood Home Page and we know we can do that with the support of our readership.”

Brentwood Home Page

We would love our readers help in identifying qualified leads for advertisers willing to support BHP’s mission – to provide a credible, independent and essential news source for Brentwood, while providing an affordable venue for businesses and services to target the city’s educated, affluent and tech-savvy demographics. To that end, BHP will offer a $25 gift card from for each qualified lead that turns into a sale.  How does our promotion work? Click Read More to find out!

Brentwood Home Page

From the start, Brentwood Home Page readers have been able to access daily news and information about Brentwood when and where they want it – all it takes is an internet connection or a smartphone. Best of all, it’s always been free.

But to remain that way, we would love our readers help in identifying qualified leads for advertisers willing to support BHP’s mission – to provide a credible, independent and essential news source for Brentwood, while providing an affordable venue for businesses and services to target the city’s educated, affluent and tech-savvy demographics.

To that end, BHP will offer a $25 gift card from for each qualified lead that turns into a sale. 

How does our promotion work? Go out and tell your favorite local and regional businesses that they should consider advertising with Brentwood Home Page. Tell them why you love it as a reader.  Then contact BHP co-owner and managing partner Kelly Gilfillan with the lead, which will be immediately contacted by our sales staff. If a sale is made, you will receive your choice of a Mere Bulls’ Restaurant, Accent Flowers or Roosters Men’s Grooming gift card.

 “We put out triple the headlines of our much-bigger competition with a skeleton staff,” said Gilfillan. “We do it because we are passionate about our community, our city and the schools which make up the lives we live.

“Caring about what you do and living side by side with those you write about drives you to do your best. But we have reached a point that we cannot sustain our coverage and growth without additional revenue.

“To keep our service free to readers, we must increase our advertising base. That’s why we’re asking for your help. We also encourage all of our readers to support our current advertisers. Without them, the daily, breaking news coverage Brentwood has come to rely on in the past two years would not be possible.

Send your advertising leads to [email protected] with AD LEAD in the subject line. Be sure to include contact information for the potential advertiser as well as your name, address and a daytime telephone number.

 “We appreciate so much the continual support of our readers,” said editor and publisher Susan Leathers. “We want to continually improve Brentwood Home Page and we know we can do that with the support of our readership.”