NHBR About Town: Women’s Rural Entrepreneurial Network

July 15, 2011

NH Business Review Staff,

The Women’s Rural Entrepreneurial Network accepts an award from the Mary M. Dumais Memorial Fund. From left, Marilyn Bogue, lead lender relations specialist at the U.S. Small Business Administration, WREN executive director Marilinne Cooper, John Dumais of the Mary M. Dumais Memorial Fund, and WREN director of market access Katy Curnyn.

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