The fireworks show that lit up the night sky over New Providence, N.J., Friday night nearly didn't happen. The cash-squeezed town of 12,000 couldn't afford the $12,000 pyrotechnics bill, so its July 4th celebration was cancelled. That was until two weeks ago, when a local bank stepped in, wrote a check and bailed the town out. "I said, here's our neighbor in trouble, having a little financial difficulty," said Kevin Cummings, president and CEO of Investors Savings Bank. "It's a great opportunity, the Fourth of July celebration, it gets our name out there in the marketplace but, more importantly, it's us serving the community," he said. Indeed, dozens of other small towns across the country from those in Washington state to Pennsylvania...