Premier Community Bankshares, Inc. Announces Increase in Dividend

WINCHESTER, Va., Dec. 14  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Board of Directors of Premier Community Bankshares, Inc. announced the declaration of a $0.25 per share annual dividend payable on or before January 26, 2006, to shareholders of record as of December 30, 2005.  This represents a 19% increase over the dividend paid a year earlier and is the seventh consecutive year the Company has increased its dividend.

Premier Community Bankshares, Inc. is the holding company resulting from the merger of Marathon Bank, Winchester, Virginia and Rockingham Heritage Bank, Harrisonburg, Virginia.  In July of 2005, the Company opened the third bank in the holding company, Premier Bank, to serve the Martinsburg/Shepherdstown, West Virginia Markets.  The multi-bank holding company has total assets of approximately $664 million.  The three subsidiary banks have seventeen branch offices serving the Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.  The common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the symbol "PREM." 

DATASOURCE: Premier Community Bankshares, Inc.



CONTACT:  Donald L. Unger, President and Chief Executive Officer of

Premier Community Bankshares, Inc., [phone]

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