I also use Middlesex Savings Bank, it has lots of branches, and it is a small bank which doesn't lend to fossil fuel projects, I think it mostly lends for residential mortgages.
On Fri, Nov 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM Jeff Eaton via Lincoln < [email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Steve- > > For what it's worth, I have been a customer of the Middlesex Savings Bank > (nee "Middlesex Institution for Savings") for over sixty years. Likely > that's more akin to an indication of inertia, but when I've needed their > services they have done well. I also have maintained a Safe Deposit Box > with them for all these years... at their Main Street building, Concord > Village. > > --- Jeff > > Jeff Eaton > 8 Storey Drive > Lincoln MA 01773-2109 > > Covid booster: October 17, 2025 > > cell: (781) 686-8120 > Land line: (781) 259-0321 > Permanent email address: > [email protected] > > * We are on a highway to climate hell ... with our foot still on the > accelerator.”* > > * - António Guterres, > 11-7-2022* > > > > In a message dated 11/7/2025 3:17:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > > *Many of us have been notified of the BofA’s plans to leave Lincoln.* > > > > *For some of us, it’s good riddance! Terrible hours, horrible customer > service (I was on hold for 40 minutes today waiting to ask a simple > question of the BofA’s national customer service team), interest rates on > deposits that sucked, and fees charged to customers that “blew” (the > opposite of sucked when money flows in the opposite direction!).* > > > > *Obviously, the Rural Land Foundation will be working hard to find a new > bank, a better bank—one that is not just “here,” but one that is here for > its customers.* > > > > *Right now, there is one thing that all current customers of the Lincoln > BofA branch can do to help the RLF attract a top-notch replacement: We can > continue to rely on Lincoln’s BofA branch for safe deposit box services. > Think of that not as maintaining a relationship with the BofA, but rather a > relationship with the Lincoln Mall and the replacement bank that the RLF > secures.* > > > > *In evaluating the desirability of establishing a new branch in Lincoln, > the existence of our large safe deposit box base will be an important > inducement to open a branch here because it means not building a customer > base from scratch.* > > > > *For Lincolnites, maintaining a safe deposit box in Lincoln will be an > inducement to keep the rest of our banking business in Lincoln, and that > will help our new bank to succeed here.* > > > > Regards, > Steve Low > > > -- > The LincolnTalk mailing list. > To post, send mail to [email protected]. > Browse the archives at > https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/private/lincoln/. > Change your subscription settings at > https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/lincoln. > > -- > The LincolnTalk mailing list. > To post, send mail to [email protected]. > Browse the archives at https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/private/lincoln/ > . > Change your subscription settings at > https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/lincoln. > >
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