Winsted-based Northwest Community Bank opened its first Simsbury branch in December and recently held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new location.

The branch on Hopmeadow Street is fully-operational through its drive-up window, ATM and scheduled appointments inside with branch personnel to comply with safety protocols.

Northwest Community Bank’s president and CEO, Stephen Reilly, said the bank had serviced Simsbury customers and community organizations for years, even without a branch there.

“We saw the need – and the opportunity – to provide local community bank advantages to Simsbury,” Reilly said. “We believe in relationship banking with our commercial and individual customers, and community involvement is a tradition and core value of our bank. We have already received a warm welcome in Simsbury.”

Northwest Community Bank is a mutually owned bank with offices in Avon, Granby, New Hartford, Simsbury, Torrington and Winsted, as well as an academic branch at Northwestern Regional High School. The bank is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Connecticut Mutual Holding Co., and earlier this month assumed operations of Collinsville Bank, A Division of Northwest Community Bank and Litchfield Bancorp, A Division of Northwest Community Bank.