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By Ron Cole As we slip slowly out of another year, one unlike any other most have ever experienced, we enter a new year filled with uncertainty and yet promising positivity, we harken back to many things that have occurred in just a few months. Let’s recognize some of those folks and organizations. One thing that surprised and pleased many Dover drivers for a short period (for obvious reasons) was wicked cool (I’m not sorry for the pun). On the 18th of December, Dennis Hickey and Dave Soh...

Firefighters rescue dog from frigid river in Massachusetts UPI News Service, 12/23/2020  Firefighters and police responded to a river in Massachusetts to rescue a dog that fell into the frigid waters and couldnt reach shore on its own. ADVERTISEMENT The Wellesley Police Department said personnel from the Wellesley Fire Department conducted an ice water rescue with help from Dover Fire personnel and police when the dog fell into the Charles River at Elm Bank. The department twee...

Firefighters rescue dog from frigid river in Massachusetts By (0) Team effort saves dog from frigid Charles River earlier this afternoon. Wellesley Fire Fighters conducted a successful ice water rescue with help from Dover Fire and Police at Elm Bank. Popeye was transported to a local animal hospital for treatment, but is expected to be OK! pic.twitter.com/hJ4loh21Pe— Wellesley Police (@WellesleyPolice) December 22, 2020 Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Firefighters and police responded to a river in Massa...

Firefighters Dover Toy Drive meets community need By Karen Dandurant DOVER – Gifts gathered during the annual Dover Fire & Rescue toy drive will soon be distrbuted around the community, where they will help brighten Christmas for local children.  On Sunday, hundreds of toys were bagged for families, fulfilling as many family requests as possible. Each year between 100 and 150 families benefit from the annual toy drive, which has been going on since at least 1976. “I have a picture of Br...

Fosters Daily Democrat Dover Main Street will bring Santa Claus to the city this Saturday, Dec. 19, from 2 to 4 p.m. Dover Mayor Robert Carrier will drive Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus in a convertible with Dover Fire and Rescue and Dover Police escorting them to bring holiday cheer to residents. The route is scheduled to travel through Silver Street, Arch Street and Whittier Street. The route continues on Sixth Street to Ironwood Lane, Cottonwood Drive, Wildwood, Boxwood Lane, Foxtail Ridge Road,...

Kids bake to help Dover Fire Toy Bank DOVER – What started with a conversation about what people have gone through this year ended with two students raising more than $700 for the Dover Fire Toy Bank. “Just before Thanksgiving, we were talking as a family about some of the hardships that have taken place this year with COVID and everything,” Dover resident Paul Barnes said about a conversation he had with his 10-year-old daughter Emma and his 8-year-old-son Hayden. “The kids said it wou...

Dover had nine suspected drug related deaths in 2019.