BAR HARBOR, Maine--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bar Harbor Bankshares (NYSE MKT: BHB), today announced that its Board of Directors declared at its April 21, 2015 meeting, a quarterly cash dividend of 25 cents per share of common stock, representing an increase of 0.5 cents, or 2.0%, compared with the prior quarter and an increase of 2.7 cents or 12.0% compared with the second quarter of 2014. The quarterly cash dividend is payable to all shareholders of record as of the close of business May 15, 2015 and will be paid on June 15, 2015.
Bar Harbor Bankshares is the parent company of its wholly owned subsidiary, Bar Harbor Bank & Trust. Bar Harbor Bank & Trust, founded in 1887, provides full service community banking with fifteen branch office locations serving downeast, midcoast, and central Maine.