Company: NSTS
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-011792
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Company: NSTS Bancorp, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: DEF 14A
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 (3) attend the Annual Meeting and vote your shares in person. Attendance at the Annual Meeting will not in itself revoke your proxy.

If you hold your Common Stock in “street name,” you will receive instructions from your broker, bank or other nominee that you must follow in order to have your shares voted. Your broker, bank or other nominee may allow you to deliver your voting instructions via the Internet.

Please see the instruction form provided by your broker, bank or other nominee that accompanies this Proxy Statement. In order to vote in person at the Annual Meeting, you will need special documentation from your broker, bank or other nominee. Please note that pursuant to the rules that guide how brokers vote your shares of Common Stock, your brokerage firm or other nominee may not vote your shares with respect to the election of directors (Proposal I) or the non-binding stockholder proposal (Proposal III) without specific instructions from you as to how to vote because this matter is not considered a“routine”matter under the applicable rules. Proposal II, the ratification of the appointment of Plante & Moran, PLLC, is a matter we believe will be considered“routine”; accordingly, even if the broker or other nominee does not receive voting instructions from you, the broker or other nominee is entitled to vote your shares in connection with Proposal II.

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Solicitation of Proxies; Expenses

We will pay the cost of this proxy solicitation. Our directors, executive officers and other employees may solicit proxies by mail, personally, by telephone, by press release, by facsimile transmission or by other electronic means. No additional compensation will be paid to our directors, executive officers or employees for such services. We will reimburse brokerage firms and other custodians, nominees, and fiduciaries for reasonable expenses incurred by them in sending proxy materials to the beneficial owners of our Common Stock.

Participants in the North Shore Trust and Savings Employee Stock Ownership Plan

If you are a participant in the North Shore Trust and Savings Employee Stock Ownership Plan (“ESOP”), you will receive a voting instruction card that reflects all the shares that you may direct the ESOP trustee to vote on your behalf under the ESOP. Under the terms of the ESOP, the ESOP trustee votes all shares held by the ESOP, but you may direct the trustee how to vote the shares of Common Stock allocated to your ESOP account. The ESOP trustee will vote all unallocated shares of Common Stock held by the ESOP, all allocated shares for which