Don’t let anyone tell you it can’t be done!

Don’t let anyone tell you it can’t be done!

Feeling defeated and completely discouraged, I followed my mother out of the “business meeting,” a gathering of ten prominent businessmen who had been put together as investors.

I had just graduated college with a journalism degree. My mother was an established and recognized journalist in the area. The months before graduation, every waking moment up to this meeting, was spent dreaming of this meeting as a start to beginning publication of a weekly newspaper for the North Shore of Long Island.

Wring a business prospectus, meetings and anticipation all leading up to this Sunday afternoon meeting with these prominent business people who we had hoped would become financial bakers to help get the presses rolling.

“Pat,” one of them said to my mother after the hour-long meeting, “you know we love and respect your experience and expertise, but, it’s a recession. Local stores are closing, restaurants… It’s too risky to start any business in this economy, especially a local paper.”

My mother got into the passenger seat, I got into the drivers seat of my old Subaru wagon. As my mother closed the door of the car with a bang she said, “You just got yourself a newspaper!”

Was she just in the same meeting as I was? I looked over at her, my face of shock probably asked the questions: “How? Why? WHAT?”

“Because they said it can’t be done, that’s why we are going to do it!”

And that is how the presses started to roll, September 29, 1991.

As of this writing it has been nearly 25 years since the presses first rolled out the debut edition of the Gold Coast Gazette. I was really just a kid, although at the time I felt as if I owned the world.

It has been an amazing journey, a journey recorded in time on a weekly basis. Travel, schedules, parties, meetings, and even my daughter’s birth, scheduled around a printing day of Thursday.

Despite all that, plus major storms, black outs, and even a fire that brought our printing press to the ground, we’ve never missed a single issue.

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