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7 Tips to Prevent Tax ID Fraud
NORWAY, Maine – As the 2017 tax season gets underway, Norway Savings Bank is urging all customers to take extra precaution when filing their return to prevent their exposure to tax fraud. “Fraudsters are using very clever tactics to get a hold of your personal information and submit false tax claims,” said Pat Weigel, President […]
Norway Savings Bank donates $10,000 to Community Concepts to help Maine Homeowners
[Norway, ME] –Norway Savings Bank recently provided Community Concepts with a donation of $10,000, to help Maine families’ access homeownership and stay in their homes. With these funds, Community Concepts will provide one-on-one financial counseling to families seeking a home of their own and to those who are facing financial difficulties as homeowners. Counseling sessions […]
Attention Business Owners – Beware of Cyber Thieves!
In a recent article by the American Bankers Association, cyber thieves are targeting non-EMV enabled retailers. “Criminals are targeting the remaining merchants that have not upgraded, including gas pumps,” said the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center, the Retail Cyber Intelligence Sharing Center and the U.S. Secret Service in a joint release. If you […]
LIGHTS, CAMERA, SAVE!
Norway Savings Bank announces local contest winner NORWAY, Maine – Norway Savings Bank is proud to congratulate Mitchell Lisowski of Harrison, winner of our local round of the Lights, Camera, Save! video contest. The Lights, Camera, Save! video contest is one of several components of the ABA Education Foundation’s Teach Children to Save program. This component […]
Norway Savings Bank donates $2,400 to New Ventures Maine to help Maine small businesses grow
[Norway, ME] – Norway Savings Bank teamed up with New Ventures Maine to provide budding Maine entrepreneurs a chance to win a cash mini-grant of $400 for expanding their business through marketing and promotion efforts. “We have found that a small mini-grant of $400 can go a long way in helping a new business get […]
Norway Savings Bank helps bring animal companionship to Maine Veterans
[Norway, ME] – Maine is home to hundreds of deserving non-profit organizations, including the Portland Chapter of Pets for Vets; an organization that matches animal companions to provide emotional and physical support to U.S. Military Veterans returning home from duty. Pets for Vets rescues animals from shelters, then trains and pairs the pet with a […]
Norway Savings Bank makes financial literacy program free for Maine middle school students
Norway, ME – Norway Savings Bank is working with Banzai, an on-line financial literacy training program, to bring their curriculum to four Maine middle schools at no cost to the students or the schools. Banzai allows teachers to provide students with an interactive way of learning. Using online tools and printed workbooks, students are exposed […]
Norway Savings Bank helps make Christmas morning special for Oxford Hills kids and teens
Norway, ME – For twenty-six years, Norway Savings Bank employees have helped put smiles on the faces of hundreds of children and families in need on Christmas morning. In 1990, branch employees from Norway and South Paris formed the Hometown Friends Committee, as a way to give back to the community. This year, the Committee […]
Employee-Led Initiative Raises $10,000 to Help Maine’s Hungry Families
NORWAY, Maine — November 22, 2016 — Norway Savings Bank employees have raised $10,000 to help feed Maine families struggling with food insecurity by tapping into their passions and creativity. As part of the bank’s 150th-anniversary celebration, employees decided to create a limited-edition cookbook called Colorful Cooking Solutions filled with more than 100 easy-to-make sweet and savory family-style […]
Two Female Entrepreneurs Open Falmouth Orthodontist Practice
Practice is launched with creative financing through SBA Guaranteed Loans and new low-interest loan program designed to help expand women-owned businesses in Maine Falmouth, Maine – November 2, 2016 – A brand new women-owned orthodontics office called mBrace Orthodontics has officially opened its doors in Falmouth, with the help of local financing from Norway Savings Bank, […]