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Greenfield Savings Bank offers matching donation for The Literacy Project
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Published: 4/8/2021 2:58:53 PM
GREENFIELD The Literacy Project has received a $3,000 Challenge Grant from Greenfield Savings Bank as part of its spring fundraising. The bank plans to match donations the agency receives up to $3,000 through the end of May.
“Greenfield Savings Bank is a good community partner working toward the success of all residents in Franklin and Hampshire counties,” The Literacy Project Executive Director Judith Roberts said. “With community support, The Literacy Project can continue to provide classes where students can reach their goals, and when they achieve their educational goals, they make a better life for themselves and their families, and the whole community benefits.”
Published: 3/12/2021 5:08:33 PM
NORTHAMPTON Andrew Brow refers to the period between New Year’s and Valentine’s Day as the “dark days” of the restaurant season a time when people spend less money eating out.
But that was before the pandemic hit, casting a heavy cloud over his business that’s stretched on for an entire year, says the chef and owner of HighBrow Wood Fired Kitchen + Bar in Northampton.
“We’re getting by,” Brow said. “The doors will not lock.” But the business isn’t “printing money, either.”
Out in Florence, Miss Florence Diner owner Georgie Brunton said business is down quite a bit because of the pandemic, but that the restaurant is “hanging in there,” and holding out hope that as more people get vaccinated the business can get back to 2019 numbers.
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PPP loan application process easier second time around for Greenfield institutions
Greenfield/Northampton Cooperative Bank credit analysts and Paycheck Protection Program specialists Erica Josephson and Ben Viens at work on U.S. Small Business Administration profiles. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Andrew Bresciano, Greenfield Savings Bank first vice president and commercial loan officer, was one of the bank’s Paycheck Protection Program Task Force members working throughout the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday weekend processing and submitting customers’ PPP loan applications to the U.S. Small Business Administration. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
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GREENFIELD No one working for the federal government today was alive during the so-called Spanish flu pandemic that started in 1918. So there was no reasonable way of knowing how businesses would react to $349 billion being made available in forgivable loans in 2020.