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Update 06/29/2020: Rockland Trust said this morning the bank "will make every reasonable effort to process all complete PPP application packages for fishing boat owners prior to the cessation of the program on June 30th, 2020." The Small Business Administration announced Thursday that owners of commercial fishing vessels are now eligible to apply for Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loa

Superintendent Dr. Pia Durkin, Mayor Jon Mitchell, and other elected officials gathered at the William H. Taylor School and Sea Lab to officially dedicate the building to its namesake.

Small businesses account for millions of jobs in America.  The Small Business Administration says there were 5.73 million employer firms in the U.S. in 2012. Businesses with fewer that 20 employees made up 89.6 percent. The SBA says when you add in the number of non-employer businesses there were 23 million in 2013 and the share of U.S. b...

Businesses impacted by this past winter may be eligible for some federal loans.

  The federal Small Business Administration has decided to provide federal disaster assistance to Massachusetts fishermen hard hit by reductions in catch limits and groundfish stocks.       U.S. Sen. Edward Markey said Friday that the assistance will help fishermen keep their businesses afloat as they adjust to changing conditions that threaten commercial fishing communities across the state.  ...