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Available-for-Sale, Transferred Security, at Fair Value

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Available-for-sale Securities, Transferred to Held-to-maturity Securities, Accumulated Unrealized Gain (Loss)

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Number of Individual Companies in Banking Industry

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Number of Private Activity Bonds Issued by Well-Known Customers

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The number of securities with unrealized losses, classified as temporarily impaired, held in a Company's portfolio as of the balance sheet date.

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The number of States in New England where Federal Home Loan Bank do housing and financing services.

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Other Comprehensive Income (Loss), Accumulated Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Transfer of Available-for-sale Securities to Held-to-maturity

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As of the balance sheet date, the excess of carrying value (amortized cost) over fair value of a security categorized as non marketable securities, exclusive of dividend or interest income recognized but not yet received and exclusive of any write-downs for other-than-temporary impairment. Such item represents the gross unrecognized holding loss.

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Amount excluding accrued interest, of allowance for credit loss on investment in debt security measured at fair value with change in fair value recognized in other comprehensive income (available-for-sale).

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Amount of realized gain (loss) on investment in debt security measured at fair value with change in fair value recognized in other comprehensive income (available-for-sale).

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Amount of restricted investment in debt security measured at fair value with change in fair value recognized in other comprehensive income (available-for-sale).

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Amount, excluding accrued interest, of allowance for credit loss on investment in debt security measured at amortized cost (held-to-maturity).

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Amount excluding accrued interest, before allowance for credit loss, of investment in debt security measured at amortized cost (held-to-maturity).

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Amount of investment in debt security measured at amortized cost (held-to-maturity) on nonaccrual status.

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Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) stock represents an equity interest in a FHLB. It does not have a readily determinable fair value because its ownership is restricted and it lacks a market (liquidity).

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Federal Reserve Bank stock represents an equity interest in the Federal Reserve Bank. It does not have a readily determinable fair value because its ownership is restricted and it lacks a market (liquidity).

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Threshold period for when financing receivable is considered past due, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days. Excludes threshold period past due to write off as uncollectible.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Investment Securities - Narrative (Details)	6 Months Ended
Investment Securities - Narrative (Details)	Jun. 30, 2025 USD ($) company state bond security	Jun. 30, 2024 USD ($) security	Mar. 31, 2025 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2024 USD ($) security	Mar. 31, 2024 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2023 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2014 USD ($)
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
AFS allowance	$ 0
HTM allowance for credit losses	198,000	$ 149,000	$ 197,000	$ 196,000	$ 182,000	$ 434,000
Amortized cost	368,071,000	377,671,000		$ 369,900,000
Gains or losses on the sale of securities	$ 0	$ 0
Number of securities temporarily impaired (security) \| security	235	238		243
Financing receivable, threshold period past due	30 days
Debt securities, held-to-maturity, nonaccrual	$ 0
Amortized cost of securities transferred							$ 89,780,000
Fair value of securities transferred							89,757,000
Net unrealized loss, net of taxes on transferred securities							$ 15,000
Unamortized balance of net unrealized losses transferred	$ 60,000	$ 51,000		$ 47,000
Number of states \| state	6
FHLB stock investment	$ 6,697,000	6,073,000		6,166,000
Federal reserve bank stock	1,037,000	1,037,000		1,037,000
Impairment losses	0
Other equity securities
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Securities pledged as collateral	347,745,000	310,931,000		349,833,000
Agency and mortgage-backed securities
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
HTM allowance for credit losses	$ 0
Municipal Bonds
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Number of private activity bonds \| bond	2
Amortized cost	$ 18,690,000
Corporate securities
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
HTM allowance for credit losses	119,000	93,000	$ 116,000	116,000	$ 113,000	$ 222,000
Amortized cost	$ 28,000,000	32,250,000		27,250,000
Number of individual companies \| company	14
U.S. Treasury & Agency securities
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
HTM allowance for credit losses	$ 0
Amortized cost	$ 38,100,000	$ 38,100,000		$ 38,100,000