Exhibit
      99.1





**The
                    Wilber Corporation Announces****The
                    Temporary Closing of Two Offices Due To Recent****Flood
                    Damage**




**FOR
      IMMEDIATE RELEASE**




**DATE:**
            July
                5, 2006**FROM:**
            Douglas
                C. Gulotty, President and CEO**PHONE:**
            607-433-4172







**Oneonta,
      New York -** Wilber
      National Bank, the sole banking subsidiary of The Wilber Corporation
      (“Company”), [Stock Symbol: GIW] today announced that two of its branch banking
      facilities will be closed temporarily due to damage incurred as a result of
      flooding caused by recent storms. In particular, the Company’s Sidney, New York
      and Walton, New York branch banking facilities will be closed to repair damage
      as the result of flooding, which occurred on Tuesday, June 27, 2006 and
      Wednesday, June 28, 2006. The Company has made arrangements for temporary
      banking facilities to be established in each market. The availability and hours
      of operation for each facility will be announced as soon as they are
      available.






Mr.
      Douglas C. Gulotty, the Company’s President and CEO, said “We plan to open
      temporary facilities in the Walton and Sidney markets before the end of next
      week (July 14, 2006). We fully anticipate providing the same range of services
      at the temporary facilities that we provided at our permanent facilities with
      little or no inconvenience to our customers.” The Company anticipates that it
      may take up to 6-months to clean and refurbish the permanent facilities. Total
      flood-related costs to repair damage and re-establish the temporary and
      permanent facilities is not known at this time. Mr. Gulotty, said, “Our plans
      right now are to refurbish our flood damaged facilities as soon as possible.
      However, given the extent of the damage experienced in the area, we have made
      arrangements to lease our temporary facilities for a 6-month
      period.”






The
      Company has also made arrangements with a local federal credit union to provide
      check cashing services and non-cash deposit and loan payment services for
      customers of the Bank until the temporary facilities can be opened. Mr. Gulotty
      continued, “We are greatly appreciative of the offer made by Jim Doig, President
& CEO of Sidney Federal Credit Union (Sidney, NY), and his staff for helping
      the Bank and its customers in our time of need.”





The
      Wilber Corporation is a single bank holding company headquartered in Oneonta,
      New York, serving the financial needs of the communities of the Western
      Catskills and Eastern Southern Tier of New York. The Wilber Corporation is
      the
      parent of Wilber National Bank, a national bank chartered in 1874 with 20 branch
      offices located in Otsego, Delaware, Schoharie, Ulster, Chenango, and Broome
      Counties, and two loan production offices located in Kingston, New York and
      Syracuse, New York.





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*NOTE:
      This press release may contain certain statements which are historical facts
      or
      which concern the Company’s future operations or economic performance and which
      are to be considered forward-looking statements. Any such forward-looking
      statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private
      Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Company cautions that all
      forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainties, and that actual
      results may differ from those indicated in the forward-looking statements as
      a
      result of various factors, such as changing economic and competitive conditions
      and other risk and uncertainties. In addition, any statements in this news
      release regarding historical stock price performance are not indicative of
      or
      guarantees of future price performance.*