Small Business Grant Program provides $1.2M to businesses
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Dean of the Massachusetts Senate Marc R. Pacheco, D-Taunton, recently announced 22 businesses in the 1st Plymouth and Bristol district have been selected to receive a total of $1,210,000 through the COVID-19 Small Business Grant Program.
These awards to businesses in Bridgewater, Carver, Marion, Middleborough, Raynham, Taunton and Wareham, come in addition to a total of $1.8 million given to 31 local businesses in the 1st Plymouth and Bristol District over the past several weeks of COVID-19 Small Business Grant Program awards administered by the Massachusetts Growth Capital Corporation.
“I am very pleased that 53 local businesses in the district I represent have been selected to receive a total of over $3 million in the three rounds of COVID-19 Small Business Grant Program awards,” said Sen. Pacheco. “With the ongoing pandemic causing major economic disruption for so many local businesses, I am pr
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Wareham, Marion businesses receive COVID grants
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BOSTON – Five Wareham businesses and two Marion businesses are receiving COVID-19 Small Business Grants.
Sen. Marc R. Pacheco, D-Taunton, announced that 22 businesses in all in the 1st Plymouth & Bristol district have been selected to receive a total of $1,210,000 through the COVID-19 Small Business Grant Program.
In Wareham, they are Beaver Dam Partners Inc., $75,000; Kaleidoscope of Dance and Gymnastics Inc., $70,000; E.L. Morse Lumber Inc., $75,000; Equestrian Element, $25,000; Jasmine Keane, $10,000.
In Marion, they are Brew Fish Bar & Eatery, $75,000; The Atlantic Bistro, $75,000.
These awards to businesses in Bridgewater, Carver, Marion, Middleborough, Raynham, Taunton, and Wareham, come in addition to a total of $1.8 million given to 31 local businesses in the 1st Plymouth & Bristol District over the past several weeks of COVID-19 Small Business Grant Program awards administered by the Massachusetts Growth Ca