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    Coffee Shop in West Point Keeps Brewing Up Hospitality With PPP Loan from SBA

    Back in the olden days, a painted red door on a house meant that inside was a place where you can seek refuge. And that’s exactly what Red Door Coffee owner Lynsi Steed wants her customers to...

  • David & Michael Skaggs, MDS Manufacturing LLC

    SBA Was There Every Step of the Way for MDS Manufacturing, LLC

    Fed a baby with a bottle or offered them a pacifier? Used a trigger lock on your handgun? Displayed a collectible or protected your wineglasses? You may very well have used a product made with parts...

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    SBA Celebrates ‘National Farmers Market Week’ in New Hampshire

    The second week of August (Aug 7-13th), farmers markets across the nation celebrate ‘National Farmers Market Week’, highlighting their role in supporting healthy communities, food systems and...

  • Makieda Hart and husband sitting on a rock in front of the ocean

    From Family Recipe to Farmers Markets and Beyond

    Makieda Hart launched Sgt. Hart’s BBQ sauce in 2018 as a way to share a longstanding family recipe created by her husband, Sgt. Reno Hart, nearly 20 years earlier. As a daughter, mother, and spouse of...

  • Small business owner Melissa Maese Goldberg flipping pizza dough for her pizza shop

    PPP Success story

    When Melissa Maese Goldberg was visiting the east coast while in high school, she discovered that she could buy pizza by the slice, her mind was blown, and she thought that was the coolest thing ever...

  • Chef Alejandra Chavez cooks up delicious dessert

    SBA is Recipe for Success

    Alejandra Chavez successfully graduated from culinary school in 2002, and began her small business by providing private catering services in her customers’ homes. As her services became more and more...

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    Access Communications

    Situation Access Communications Group started in 1996 when Mark Dittmar who had been working in the automotive field decided to move towards IT. He took a DOS class in 1993 and opened his first...

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    Celebrate Maine’s Farm Products this Farmer’s Market Week

    Can healthy food be appealing, simple to order AND delicious to eat? Alicia Valcaniant thought it was a no brainer as someone who has been in various professional kitchens and is dedicated to...