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Thursday, March 19 at 4:30 p.m.: Broadway will be closed from Central Avenue to Ham Street due to a water main break. Only local traffic will be allowed on Pierce, New York and St. John streets. The closure area will likely be reduced once the water main is isolated. There will be water service disruption to users in the area until the main is fixed, which is expected to take several hours. Dover Police is the city's after-hours contact at 603-742-4646.

The City of Dover, NH is a great place to live, work, and play. Dover is conveniently located in the seacoast area of New Hampshire. Settled in 1623, Dover is the oldest permanent settlement in New Hampshire and the 7th oldest in the United States.
The City of Dover, NHis ranked one of the top 100 communities in the United States and one of the nation's top communities for young people.

Source: CNN/Money and America's Promise Alliance
The City of Dover, NHboasts superior municipal services, an exceptional school system, outstanding parks and recreation services, and numerous cultural destinations and events.
The City of Dover, NHis the fastest-growing city in New Hampshire.

Source: U.S. Census
The City of Dover, NHis home to a vibrant and thriving business community.

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Learn about New York’s secret subway in Library's virtual presentation

posted on 3/19/2026
In the nineteenth century, Manhattan’s streets were so crowded with people and horses that a trip from City Hall to Central Park – six and a half miles to be exact – took hours. But Alfred Beach had a solution: an underground tube.
Discover the fascinating true tale of “New York’s Secret Subway: The Underground Genius of Alfred Beach and the Origins of Mass Transit” on Monday, March 23 at 7 p.m. virtually with Dover Public Library. The program is in partnership with Ashland Public Library. Register to receive a link to the live stream.
Author Matthew Algeo shares the story of Beach, a Springfield, Massachusetts native, whose dream of creating a giant pneumatic tube underneath Broadway from Battery to Harlem was staled by corruption in the Gilded Age.
Beach, a mild-mannered, visionary inventor and entrepreneur, designed his invention to use air pressure to shoot passengers up and down Manhattan Island in clean, quiet carriages. Unfortunately, Beach was up against the operators of the horse-drawn streetcars and the politicians in their pay, most notoriously William M. Tweed, the notorious “Boss” of Tammany Hall....more
2026 Power-of-an-Hour city-wide litter clean up to be held on April 25

posted on 3/17/2026
Join Don't Trash Dover for its third annual Power-of-an-Hour city-wide litter clean up in honor of Earth Day on Saturday, April 25, 2026, from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., with organized litter collections in each of Dover’s six wards.
Volunteers will be provided trash bags to pick up as much trash as they can, followed by a photo of the group with all the trash collected.
The litter collections will begin and end at:...more

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