Colony Bankcorp (CBAN) 8-K Colony Bankcorp, Inc. Increases Second Quarter Dividend

Exhibit 99.1

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:	Terry L. Hester
	Chief Financial Officer
	Colony Bankcorp, Inc.
	Fitzgerald, GA 31750
	(229) 426-6002

Colony Bankcorp, Inc. Increases Second Quarter Dividend

FITZGERALD, GA., June 21, 2006— Colony Bankcorp, Inc. (Nasdaq National Market: CBAN) announced today that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.08 per share payable July 14, 2006 to shareholders of record on June 30, 2006. This represents an increase of 14.29 percent over the cash dividend paid of $0.07 per share in the second quarter a year ago and an increase of 3.23 percent over the cash dividend paid of $0.0775 per share last quarter.

Colony Bankcorp, Inc. is a multi-bank holding company headquartered in Fitzgerald, Georgia, and has seven banking subsidiaries with twenty-nine locations in south and middle Georgia cities of Fitzgerald, Warner Robins, Ashburn, Leesburg, Cordele, Albany, Thomaston, Columbus, Sylvester, Tifton, Moultrie, Douglas, Broxton, Savannah, Eastman, Chester, Soperton, Rochelle, Pitts, Quitman and Valdosta, Georgia. The banking subsidiaries include Colony Bank of Fitzgerald, Colony Bank Ashburn, Colony Bank Wilcox, Colony Bank of Dodge County, Colony Bank Worth, Colony Bank Southeast and Colony Bank Quitman, FSB. Total consolidated assets of the company approximate $1.15 billion.

Colony Bankcorp, Inc. Common Stock is quoted on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol “CBAN.”