Manchester, NH — St. Mary’s Bank has been selected as a winner in New Hampshire Business Review’s 2011 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 10 at the Grappone Conference Center in Concord.

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

“With more than 2,900 ballots cast for the 2011 Awards, the BOBs have really become a standard of excellence in New Hampshire’s business community,” said Jeff Feingold, Editor of NHBR. “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.”

The Best of Business Awards are presented by NHBR and are sponsored by: FairPoint Communications, Centrix Bank, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, AutoFair, Comcast Business Class, Public Service of New Hampshire, NH Business Resource Center, and WZID.

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, New Hampshire Home Magazine and Parenting New Hampshire.