EXHIBIT 99.1

Sussex Bancorp                                          Candace Leatham
200 Munsonhurst Road, Rt. 517                           Executive Vice President
Franklin, NJ 07416                                      & Treasurer
                                                        973-827-2914

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

                SUSSEX BANCORP ANNOUNCES EXPANSION INTO NEW YORK

FRANKLIN, N.J., Nov. 8 -- Sussex Bancorp

(Amex: SBB) announced today that its Sussex Bank subsidiary had entered into an
agreement to purchase the Port Jervis, New York branch office of NBT Bank, N.A.
As part of the transaction, Sussex will assume approximately $6 million in
deposits and acquire approximately $3.7 million in loans. The transaction is
subject to regulatory approval, and is expected to close in the first quarter of
2006.

Donald Kovach, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, stated: "We
have long considered Orange County to be a natural extension of our Northwestern
New Jersey market. We have had a representative office in New York since 2003,
and believe this branch is a continuation of our strategy of expanding our trade
area."

Sussex Bancorp is the holding company for Sussex Bank, which operates through
its main office in Franklin, New Jersey and branch offices in Andover, Augusta,
Newton, Montague, Sparta, Vernon and Wantage, New Jersey, and for the Tri-State
Insurance Agency, Inc., a full service insurance agency located in Sussex
County, New Jersey.


























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