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  Common Stock
  INDB IMG
  288 Union Street
  Rockland
  MA
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  NASDAQ
  Common Stock
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  Issuer
  N
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  06/16/2025
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  06/12/2025
  Maureen A. Gaffney, as Power of Attorney for Thomas R. Venables