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Updated 3 hours ago A fatal crash involving a motorcycle and another car killed a man in Dover, New Hampshire, Sunday morning. Police say they responded to the scene at the intersection of Washington and Chestnut Streets around 11:11 a.m., where they found both vehicles had sustained significant damage. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. A preliminary investigation indicates the driver of a Toyota Prius, a 44-year-old Dover woman, had...

Students received the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, which the Food and Drug Administration approved for emergency use for individuals 16 years and older in December 2020. The vaccination was provided voluntarily to eligible students who had a signed permission form. Students aged 16 and 17 were required to have parent/guardian permission to receive the vaccination.  All students will receive their second vaccination in three weeks through a similar effort at Dover High School. Last week, D...

Fosters Daily Democrat DOVER — When Mike Romps kindergarten class of Garrison Elementary School students went to fully remote learning last year, he experienced what he considers one of the greatest challenges in his professional teaching career.  "Ive been teaching for 20 years, and I felt like a first-year teacher all over again," Romps said. "In the beginning we were all just trying to kind of MacGyver it ... It was a great deal of work to educate through a screen, and we saw th...

Two minutes after receiving a 911 call, Dover Fire and Rescue arrived at 471 Central Ave to find The Shanty Family Tavern engulfed in flames.

Calls to one of the owners, Joe Scarlotto, were not immediately returned. Hass said the first arriving engine, from Central Station, located right around the corner, was on scene in less than two minutes, finding heavy smoke coming from the rear of the building. The plate glass windows at the front of the restaurant were stained with smoke from the interior and extremely hot to the touch. “Crews made their way through the front door, where they were met with a high heat, heavy smoke and fire,...

DOVER – A nurse at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital has been awarded the organization’s highest honor, the President’s Award, for her excellence at work and for taking the lead on the many efforts made by the hospital staff to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Part of the hospital’s PILLAR Awards program, the President’s Award honors an employee, volunteer, or medical staff member, who takes a step above the unexpected and whose actions large, or small, contribute to a quality experience at W...

DOVER — Area residents say they’re being helped “tremendously” through the state’s decision to allow local public health networks to administer leftover, soon-to-expire COVID-19 vaccine doses to them. Tamara Collins, 87, of Dover, and her husband John were among the homebound individuals COAST Bus picked up and transported for vaccinations Thursday at a special pop-up clinic health officials operate at Community Action Partnership of Strafford County’s Dover office. Leftover COVID-1...

Greatest good: Bystanders rush to aid Dover boy hurt sledding DOVER — Three bystanders are being credited for heroism and providing a helpful, calming presence after a boy hit his head on ice while sledding near Garrison Elementary School Tuesday afternoon. After a local resident posted in a Dover community Facebook group Tuesday about the boy’s injury and to thank the bystanders for helping stem his bleeding until paramedics arrived, Dover Fire & Rescue Department Deputy Fire Chief Michae...

DOVER — Longtime Dover paramedic and firefighter engineer Jennifer Myers said she often thinks back to the lives she was able to save rather than the ones that she could not. In June 2013, a three-alarm fire was reported in the four-unit building on Cushing Street. A 16-year-old girl called 911 around 2:19 a.m. and reported she was home alone and trapped on the second floor of the burning apartment building. "I was working that night," Myers recalled. "I drove the engine out of the South ...

Portsmouth Herald Feb 1  -- To the Editor: On Sunday morning—the last day of January—my husband and I received our Covid-19 vaccinations at the C&J bus stop in Dover. It was 8 degrees but we were greeted warmly by New Hampshire National Guardsmen. Our shots were given to us in our car by men and women from the Dover Fire Department. Cars of senior citizens like us moved smoothly through the vaccination process. I texted my grown children before we left the parking lot following our shots. ...