Preferred Stock Dividend Declared

The Board of Directors of Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation, at its meeting held today at the utility's South Avenue Headquarters, Poughkeepsie, New York, declared dividends of:

• $1.08-3/4 per share on its 4.35 percent cumulative preferred stock;
  
  
• $1.12-1/2 per share on its 4-1/2 percent cumulative preferred stock;
  
  
• $1.18-3/4 per share on its 4.75 percent cumulative preferred stock; and
  
  
• $1.24 per share on its 4.96 percent cumulative preferred stock.

Each of these dividends will be payable October 2, 2006, to holders of record on September 8, 2006.

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