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FIRST COUNTY BANK NAMES DENISE C. DORIA TO BOARD OF DIRECTORS

STAMFORD, Conn., June 30, 2010 ─ First County Bank announced today that Denise C. Doria has been named to the company’s board of directors. The appointment is effective June 16, 2010.

First County Bank Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard E. Taber commented, “Denise Doria brings tremendous local and regional knowledge, and business wisdom to our board. We are delighted that someone of her caliber became available for service to our organization. We look forward to working with Denise and introducing her to the First County Bank family over the next several months.”

Doria, a Stamford resident, is a certified public accountant and partner at Walter J. McKeever & Co. LLC in Greenwich. She started at the company as a senior accountant in 1990 and has been a partner since 1995. Prior to joining McKeever, Doria was a senior auditor with Ernst & Young in Hartford.

Doria, 43, has been a corporator at First County Bank since June 2007. She is treasurer and a co-founder of Challenged People in Motion Inc., a 501(c)(3) organization based in Stamford. Since 2006, Doria has volunteered at Cure JM Foundation Inc., a nonprofit organization created with the goal of raising awareness and funding research to find a cure for Juvenile Myositis, a rare autoimmune disease. And on June 2, Doria became its chief financial officer.

Doria earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration and accounting from Saint Joseph College in West Hartford in 1988 and lives with her husband, Nicola, in Stamford.

Doria joins current First County Bank board members Thomas L. Bartram, Robert A. Beer, Nicholas DuBiago, Robert D. Emslie, Reyno A. Giallongo Jr., Mark A. Lapine, David W. Hopper, James B. McArdle Jr., Gerald A. Nielsen Jr. and Richard E. Taber.

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First County Bank, headquartered in Stamford, Conn., is an independent mutual community bank with 15 branches in Stamford, Greenwich, Darien, New Canaan, Norwalk and Westport offering deposit products, mortgages, trust and investment services, business banking services and online banking. First County Bank has assets in excess of $1.3 billion. For additional information, please visit www.firstcountybank.com.

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