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New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares, Inc. Announces Quarterly Dividend and Annual Meeting Date

NEWPORT, NH--(Marketwired - Jan 9, 2014) - New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: NHTB) has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of thirteen cents ($0.13) per share payable January 31, 2014, to stockholders of record as of January 24, 2014. 

In addition, the Board of Directors has set May 8, 2014, as the date of the 2014 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which will be held at the Lake Sunapee Bank Building, 1868 Room, 9 Main Street, Newport, New Hampshire at 10:00 a.m.

About New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares, Inc. New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares, Inc. is the savings and loan holding company of Lake Sunapee Bank, fsb, a federally chartered savings bank that provides a wide range of banking and financial services. Lake Sunapee Bank has four wholly owned subsidiaries: Lake Sunapee Financial Services Corp., Lake Sunapee Group, Inc., which owns and maintains all buildings and investment properties, McCrillis & Eldredge Insurance, Inc., a full-line independent insurance agency, and Charter Holding Corp., which wholly owns Charter Trust Company, a trust services and wealth management company. New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares, Inc., through its direct and indirect subsidiaries, operates 28 locations in New Hampshire in Grafton, Hillsborough, Merrimack and Sullivan counties and 16 locations in Vermont in Orange, Rutland and Windsor counties. New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares, Inc. has total assets of approximately $1.4 billion.

For additional information contact: Stephen R. Theroux President 603-863-0886