Exhibit 99.2
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                           SUSSEX BANCORP. EXTENDS AND
                        INCREASES STOCK BUY BACK PROGRAM


     Franklin,  New Jersey - Sussex Bancorp.  (AMEX: "SBB") announced today that
its Board of  Directors  has  expanded  the  Company's  existing  stock buy back
program to permit the Company to repurchase up to an aggregate of 100,000 shares
of its  outstanding  common  stock,  in either  open market  transactions  or in
privately  negotiated  transactions.  The  Company's  existing  buy back program
permitted  the Company to repurchase  up to 50,000  shares,  and the Company had
repurchased approximately 32,000 shares under this program.

     Donald Kovach, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, stated:
"We believe the proper use of a stock buy back  program,  when combined with our
history of consistent  cash dividends and stock  dividends,  shows our continued
commitment to shareholder value."

     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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