Bar Harbor Bankshares Announces Quarterly Cash Dividend Increase

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Tue Jan 22, 2008 4:42pm EST 

BAR HARBOR, Maine--(Business Wire)--Bar Harbor Bankshares (AMEX:BHB), today announced that its Board
of Directors has declared a cash dividend of 25.0 cents per share of
common stock for the quarter ended December 31, 2007, representing an
increase of 1.5 cents per share, or 6.4% compared with the dividend
paid for the same quarter last year. The quarterly cash dividend will
be payable to all shareholders of record as of the close of business
February 15, 2008, and will be paid on March 15, 2008.

   Bar Harbor Bankshares is the parent company of its wholly owned
subsidiary, Bar Harbor Bank & Trust. Bar Harbor Bank & Trust, founded
in 1887, provides full service community banking with twelve branch
office locations serving Downeast and Midcoast Maine.

Bar Harbor Bankshares
Joseph M. Murphy, 207-288-3314
President and CEO

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