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

NEWPORT, NH--(Marketwire - Jan 17, 2012) - New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: NHTB) has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of thirteen cents ($0.13) per share payable January 31, 2012, to stockholders of record as of January 24, 2011.

The Board of Directors also announced that the Annual Stockholders' Meeting will be held on May 10, 2012 at the Lake Sunapee Bank Building, 1868 Room, 9 Main Street, Newport, New Hampshire, at 10:00 a.m. ET.

NHTB is the parent company of Lake Sunapee Bank, fsb, a federally-chartered stock savings bank providing a wide range of banking and financial services through twenty-eight offices strategically located in west-central New Hampshire and central Vermont.