“I’ve talked to a lot of small businesses because they are bringing the employees back,” said [ODNB CEO Mark] Merrill, whose bank a rare institution that’s accepting PPP applications from new customers so long as they open a deposit account with the bank. “They have developed a group that was working extremely well when the virus hit, and they don’t want to dismantle it because they are just not going to get it back.”

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