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                             [TEXT OF NEWS RELEASE]

For Immediate Release
April 3, 2006


CNB Corporation Board
Nominates Four Director Candidates

Benson, Dusenbury, Goldfinch, Holliday Have Deep Bank, Community Ties


         CONWAY, SC --- Four long-time,  prominent Horry County business leaders
have been nominated for election as directors of CNB Corporation by the board of
directors.  Nominated are William R. Benson,  a senior vice  president of Conway
National  Bank;  George  H.  Goldfinch,  Jr.,  president  of  Goldfinch  Funeral
Services,  Inc., of Conway;  Paul R. Dusenbury,  executive vice president of the
bank, of Aynor; and M. Russell Holliday,  Jr., president of Monroe Management of
Gallivants Ferry. Benson and Dusenbury are currently on the board.

         Election  of  directors   will  come  at  the  CNB  annual  meeting  of
shareholders May 9.


         Benson  has been with CNB since 1985  after ten years  experience  with
other banks in the Carolinas.  A USC graduate, he also has attended the Graduate
School of Banking of the South at LSU and American Bankers Association  National
Commercial  Lending  School.  He currently is a trustee of Conway Medical Center
and a member of the Horry County  Commission  on Alcohol and Drug Abuse.  He has
been  president of the Conway  Rotary Club and the Horry County  United Way. His
father was a long-time CEO of Conway National Bank.

         Dusenbury, chief financial officer for CNB, joined the bank in 1982. He
earned a degree in financial management from Clemson. Prior to joining the bank,
he was a bank examiner for the Office of the  Comptroller  of the Currency,  the
primary  Federal  regulator  of  National  Banks.  He has served as chair of the
Conway  Medical  Center  board and  currently  participates  on the Horry County
Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee.

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CNB Director Nominees - 2

         Goldfinch  is  president  of  Goldfinch  Funeral  Services,  Inc.  with
facilities  in Conway,  Murrells  Inlet and Pawleys  Island,  and  president  of
Hillcrest Cemetery. He is a trustee of Conway Medical Center and a member of the
board of United Way of Horry County. Goldfinch graduated from USC and the Gupton
Jones College of Mortuary Science. His father was a CNB director.

         Holliday  has been  active in  management  of various  Holliday  family
interests since 1985 and is currently  president of Monroe Management,  an asset
management company. She is a Converse College graduate and member of The Citadel
Foundation  Board and the Medical  University of South Carolina  Hollings Cancer
Center advisory Board. Her father, also, was a director of CNB.

         CNB Corporation is the parent company of Conway National Bank.  Founded
in 1903, the bank has offices located in Horry and Georgetown Counties.

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participants in the solicitation of proxies on behalf of the Corporation's board
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