8-K

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF

THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): August 19, 2004

COLONY BANKCORP, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Georgia	000-12436	58-1492391
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)	(Commission File No.)	(IRS Employer I.D. No.)

115 South Grant Street, Fitzgerald, Georgia 31750

(Address of principal executive offices)

(229) 426-6000

Registrant’s Telephone Number, including area code

N/A

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

Item 7. Financial Statements, Pro Forma Financial Information and Exhibits.

(c ) Exhibits.

99.1 Press Release dated August 19, 2004

Item 9. Regulation FD Disclosure

On August 19, 2004, Colony Bankcorp, Inc. issued a press release announcing the opening of a new banking facility in Tifton/Tift County, Georgia. The press release is attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this Form 8-K. This information is provided under Item 12 of Form 8-K. The information in this Form 8-K and the Exhibit attached hereto shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Act of 1934, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

	COLONY BANKCORP, INC.
Date: August 19, 2004	By:	/s/ Terry L. Hester
		Terry L. Hester
		Executive Vice President and
		Chief Financial Officer

EX-99.1

EXHIBIT 99.1

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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

Colony Bankcorp, Inc. Announces New Banking Facility in Tifton/Tift County, Georgia

FITZGERALD, GA., August 19, 2004 — Colony Bankcorp, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBAN) announced that its’ wholly-owned subsidiary, Colony Bank Worth, located in Sylvester, Georgia opened a new banking facility in Tifton, Tift County, Georgia last week. The new office located at 1909 Hwy 82 West, Tifton, Georgia will operate under the trade name Colony Bank. This will be the bank’s second office in the Tift County market as the bank has an office at 605 West Second Street, Tifton, Georgia that opened in 1998.

Walter Patten, President and CEO of Colony Bank Worth, stated that the new office would be under the direction of Lee A. “Trey” Womack III. Colony Bank Worth has assets of approximately $148 million and operates offices in Worth, Colquitt and Tift Counties.

Colony Bankcorp, Inc. is a multi-bank holding company headquartered in Fitzgerald, Georgia that consists of the following subsidiaries: Colony Bank of Fitzgerald, Colony Bank Wilcox, Colony Bank Ashburn, Colony Bank of Dodge County, Colony Bank Worth, Colony Bank Southeast, Colony Bank Quitman, FSB, Georgia First Mortgage Company and Colony Management Services, Inc. The Company conducts a general full service commercial, consumer and mortgage banking business through twenty-six offices located in the Central, South and Coastal Georgia cities of Fitzgerald, Warner Robins, Ashburn, Leesburg, Cordele, Albany, Thomaston, Sylvester, Tifton, Moultrie, Douglas, Broxton, Savannah, Eastman, Chester, Soperton, Rochelle, Pitts, Quitman and Valdosta, Georgia. Total consolidated assets of the company approximate $949 million.

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