Paycheck protection borrowers are forgiven

Bankers who wrote paycheck protection loans are helping businesses get forgiveness, and while economic hardship from the coronavirus quarantine prompted that government assistance, the pandemic accelerated a rural renaissance.

Those insights come from a couple of Hohenwald bankers who have different approaches to the Small Business Administration and the Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security Act of Congress. CARES was enacted to ward off financial collapse during an on-going health crisis in America.

Offering a regional view is Robby J. Moore, president of the Bank of Lewis County, who...