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A change in the way the city’s Fourth of July event was enclosed by fencing this year meant a dramatic loss of customers at The Tap Station on Main Street.
PPP and Me Joan McGuire Paycheck Protection Program loans provided lifelines to Oregon’s small businesses but triggered messy headaches for banks. A look back at the process proves the struggle paid off in many ways. Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans offered a desperately needed helping hand to Mitch and Cathy Teal, owners of BREW Coffee and Taphouse in Independence and West Salem. Their business, like all service providers — restaurants, salons, medical offices and the like — was hurting from restrictions imposed to stop...