SBA offers drought-relief loans for last summer`s damage
(WorldNews Business)

ATLANTA — The U.S. Small Business Administration is taking applications for loans to cover losses in the drought that desiccated Rhode Island late last summer.This disaster declaration includes the following Rhode Island counties: Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence and Washington. It is extended to small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives and most nonprofit organizations that suffered losses as a result of the drought that began on Aug. 2, 2016.The [...] ......