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Vickey Boyd - vboyd@moultrienews.com

Vickey Boyd is a country girl raised on butterbeans, sunshine and tomatoes.She grew up playing in the woods and fields with three brothers.A good day on the farm was when she came home to dinner covered in dust and dirt. A bad day was spent in the steamy tobacco fields. Hey, anybody got a plate of butterbeans, fried chicken, with sliced tomatoes and cucumbers? She'll be right over. And right after dinner she can be found around town telling everyone to "read all about it" in East Cooper's very own weekly paper!






Sully Witte - editor@moultrienews.com

Sully Witte is a Lowcountry girl who believes that salt water cures everything - sweat, tears and the sea. When not working, she can be found on the boat or the dock teaching her eight year old daughter Reeves about the wonders of our coastal paradise. When not playing in the pluff mud she's bee bopping around town, interviewing our illustrious mayor and council members about various town projects. If you see her with a stack of papers as tall as her torso, she's on her way to the office to sift through the ever growing number of weekly police reports which almost always crack a smile on the face of Moultrie News Police Blotter fans. Very rarely will you ever catch her without her phone stuck to her ear and a pair of stillettos on her feet. Ms. Sully Witte has mastered the art of balance - fashionably, personally and professionally.





Penny Parker - news@moultrienews.com

Penny Parker is a native Charlestonian who has made Mount Pleasant her home for the past 25 years. As the mother of two sons, this non-athlete has been to more sporting events than she’d like to count. Now that she no longer has a child playing sports, Penny has turned her attention to cheering for the USC Gamecocks, Carolina Panthers, Atlanta Falcons and FC Barcelona. The thrill of competition even takes over when she’s watching the small screen and she has been known to commandeer all the phones in the house to vote on her favorite contestant on "Dancing with the Stars." Tagged "a Snoop Sister" by her mother at an early age, Penny’s been a newspaper person off and on since college and just loves to be in the know.




Jennifer Shelton Wilson - jshelton@moultrienews.com

Jennifer Shelton Wilson is a Charleston transplant, but has always been a southern girl. The Hickory, N.C. native has lived in Colorado, Florida, New Orleans and Virginia before finally deciding to plant her feet in the Lowcountry. Jennifer has a passion for sports, and she enjoys both playing and spectating. She played softball and tennis competitively, but the game of golf doesn’t come quite as naturally. Lucky for her, she’s married to a golf coach. Maybe, one day, she’ll get that hole-in-one. Jennifer loves writing and telling people’s stories. She has worked as a sportswriter for the Hickory Daily Record in North Carolina, and has contributed to several local publications. She enjoys being outside and soaking in all that Charleston has to offer, while simultaneously daydreaming about one day learning how to surf.


Jonny Volkman - jvolkman@moultrienews.com

Jonny Volkman is the Webmaster for Moultrie News, Summerville Journal Scene, The Gazette, Berkeley Independent and The News in Kingstree. He was born in Chicago, raised in Atlanta, educated in Clemson and now calls Charleston his home. When he gets home, he is greeted by his partner Ry, daughter Willow, cats Kokopelli and Isabella, and Tiberius the scruff-monster. Although he may often (very often) be seen eating french fries, he is an organics and yoga activist. If he isn't at home designing graphics, editing videos, composing music or butchering a recipe, you might find him skateboarding, at a concert, or even controlling the videoboard at Riverdogs games.





History

At the Moultrie News, we take pride in our staff of trained and dedicated professionals. We work tirelessly to provide the East Cooper area with quality informative reporting on local events with knowledge, perspective and compassion. We hope you find these qualities each time you read a copy of the Moultrie News.

The Moultrie News was started in 1964 as a tabloid shopper by Carl Meynardie, who was the publisher of the Hanahan News. He ran the little paper for 8 years. In 1972 the Moultrie News was bought by Charles Diggle and J.C. Long. At the time Mr. Diggle was publisher of several small papers. Mr. Long was the wealthy and powerful landowner who created Wild Dunes and founded the Beach Company, which continues to develop East Cooper property today.

When Mr. Long died in 1987, Charles Diggle bought the Beach Company’s Interest in the Moultrie News, and the Diggle family ran the paper for 11 years before selling it to the Evening Post Community Publications Group, which is under the vast corporate umbrella of The Post and Courier.

The company owns several Lowcountry papers, including the Berkeley Independent, the Goose Creek Gazette, the James Island Journal and the Summerville Journal Scene. After the Evening Post Community Publications Group bought the Moultrie News, Charles Diggle and his son Chuck continued to run the paper until 2002 when Vickey Boyd, who is from Kingstree, S.C., was named publisher.

Here are some statistics about the East Cooper area:
  • The population is about 68,000, which is 12 percent of the tri-county.
  • The median age of our population is 37 years four months.
  • The median income for our 5 primary zip codes is $65,592, compared to $42,710 for the tri-county median.

As this area has grown and prospered, so has its newspaper. An average edition of the Moultrie News contains:
  • 46 pages
  • 36 local photographs
  • 42 local stories
  • 82 locally submitted news releases and/or other informational items
  • It has 240 local names in its stories.
  • It has 219 advertisements.
  • It requires the hard work of 13 employees to produce our weekly newspaper.
  • The Moultrie News reaches 27,265 households east of the Cooper every week. By comparison, The Post and Courier delivers about 15,000 papers per day east of the Cooper.

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Contact Information

Mailing Address:
134 Columbus Street
Charleston, SC  29403
Department Name Phone Email
Publisher Vickey Boyd 958-7480 vboyd@moultrienews.com
Webmaster Jonny Volkman 937-5573 jvolkman@moultrienews.com
Sales Maggie Ponce 958-7486 maggie@moultrienews.com
Sales Lisa Quick 958-7489 lisa@moultrienews.com
Sales Tia Giraud 958-7487 tiagiraud@moultrienews.com
Accountant Christel Newton 958-7481 accounting@moultrienews.com
News Sully Witte 958-7482 editor@moultrienews.com
News Jennifer Shelton Wilson 958-7483 jshelton@moultrienews.com

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