MANCHESTER—MARCH 4, 2010—St. Mary’s Bank has been selected as a winner in New Hampshire Business Review’s 2010 BOB Awards, which honor the “Best of Business” in New Hampshire in over 80 categories. St. Mary’s was honored in a statewide readership survey in the Best Credit Union category.

All of the winners will be honored at a celebration to be held from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 11 at the Grappone Conference Center in Concord.

“St. Mary’s Bank is honored to win the BOB Award, for the second year in a row, for best credit union,” said President and CEO Ronald Covey.

The Best of Business Awards are presented by New Hampshire Business Review and are sponsored by: FairPoint Communications, Centrix Bank, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Charter Trust, Comcast Business Class, Walden University, RAM Printing, Southwest Airlines, NH Business Resource Center, and WZID.

“With more than 2,400 ballots cast for the 2010 awards, the BOBs have really become a standard of excellence in New Hampshire’s business community,” said Jeff Feingold, Editor of New Hampshire Business Review. “If other business owners have named your business a BOB business, it really says something about the high caliber of the company you’re running.”

New Hampshire Business Review is the state’s only business newspaper, reaching over 50,000 readers every other week. It is part of McLean Communications of Manchester, a publishing company that also
includes New Hampshire Magazine, ParentingNH, and New Hampshire Home Magazine.