Article: The TARP dilemma: N.H. banks weigh the wisdom of taking Treasury funds.(BANKING)(United States. Department of the Treasury. Troubled Asset Relief Program)

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Peterborough-based Monadnock Community Bank decided to take the money--$1.8 million of it--making it the only New Hampshire-based financial institution to do so thus far. But First Colebrook Bank is leaning toward taking it, and Community Guaranty Savings in Plymouth is leaning against it. Bedford-based Centrix Bank and Newport-based Lake Sunapee Bank aren't saying whether they've made up their minds or not. And, at least at this point, Mascoma Savings Bank wouldn't take the money even if it could.

The money in question comes from the Capital Purchase Program, or CPB a pool of some $250 billion that is part of the $700 billion ...

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