Source: David Ranii, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 11/18/16


The mayor of this struggling small town roughly 100 miles northeast of Raleigh worries that the recent closing of its one and only bank branch will have severe and long-lasting repercussions. “What business is going to come to a town with no bank?” asked Doris “Peggy” Risper, who has been mayor of this Northampton County town of 901 residents for the past decade.

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