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EXHIBIT 99.1
 
 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE     NEWS RELEASE
       
Date Submitted:
January 25, 2011
   
Contact:  Samuel G. Stone
NASDAQ Symbol:
FBMI
 
Executive Vice President and
     
Chief Financial Officer
     
(989) 466-7325
 
Firstbank Corporation Announces Cash Dividend on Common Stock

Alma, MI (FBMI) – Thomas R. Sullivan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Firstbank Corporation, announced today that a $0.01 per share cash dividend will be paid March 17, 2011, to common stock shareholders of record as of February 25, 2011. The $0.01 per share cash dividend is unchanged from the amount paid in the prior quarter.

Firstbank Corporation, headquartered in Alma, Michigan, is a bank holding company using a multi-bank-charter format with assets of $1.5 billion and 51 banking offices serving Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. Bank subsidiaries include: Firstbank – Alma; Firstbank (Mt. Pleasant); Firstbank – West Branch; Firstbank – St. Johns; Keystone Community Bank; and Firstbank – West Michigan.