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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 Wentworth-Douglass Hospital. Stacey Savage, clinical director of emergency nursing, has been instrume...

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-19 vaccine doses “This came up very fast and is a fantastic, really fantastic service,” said Coll...

'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 Michael McShane echoed the praise for the bystanders. “We absolutely do value community support like t...

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 End station and quickly arrived on the scene, seeing her house engulfed in flames. That call will...

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. BRAVO! We can begin to think about visiting our granddaughters with far less anxiety. In my gratitud...