VFGI Virginia Financial Grp. (MM)

CULPEPER, Va., Jan. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Virginia Financial Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:VFGI) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly dividend of $.22 per share, payable on February 23, 2006 to shareholders of record as of January 30, 2006. This dividend represents a 10% increase from the February 2005 quarterly dividend of $.20 per share. Based on the January 24, 2006 closing price of a share of VFG stock, the annual dividend of $.88 per share represents a yield of 2.25%. Virginia Financial Group, with $1.5 billion in assets, is one of the largest Virginia based community bank holding companies. It is the parent company for Planters Bank & Trust Company of Virginia -- in Staunton; Second Bank & Trust -- in Culpeper; Virginia Heartland Bank -- in Fredericksburg and Virginia Commonwealth Trust Company -- in Culpeper. The Company is a traditional community banking provider, offering a full range of business and consumer banking services including trust and asset management services via its trust company affiliate. The organization maintains a network of thirty- six branches serving Central and Southwest Virginia, with a thirty-seventh branch scheduled to open in Lynchburg next month. It also maintains five trust and investment service offices in its markets, and loan production offices located in Charlottesville and Lynchburg. For more investor information, please visit our website at http://www.vfgi.net/. First Call Analyst: FCMN Contact: DATASOURCE: Virginia Financial Group, Inc. CONTACT: Jeffrey W. Farrar, Executive Vice President and CFO of Virginia Financial Group, Inc., +1-540-829-1603, Web site: http://www.vfgi.net/

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