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

NEWPORT, NH--(Marketwire - Jan 10, 2013) - New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: NHTB) has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of thirteen cents ($0.13) per share payable January 31, 2013, to stockholders of record as of January 24, 2013. 

In addition, the Board of Directors has set May 9, 2013, as the date of the 2013 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 bank holding company of Lake Sunapee Bank, fsb, a federally chartered stock savings bank, which provides a wide range of banking and financial services. In addition, McCrillis & Eldredge Insurance, Inc., a full-line independent insurance agency owned by the Lake Sunapee Bank, offers a complete range of commercial insurance services and consumer products. These subsidiaries operate through 30 offices strategically located within the greater Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee-Kearsarge and Monadnock regions of west-central New Hampshire and central Vermont. New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares, Inc. has total assets of approximately $1.3 billion.