Dover 2023 - Building Our Tomorrow

The City of Dover is starting the next round of Master Plan work. The basis for this first project will be developing a community vision for Dover. In the past they have linked this to the land use chapter of the Master Plan, but this time they want to think broader and get input on all aspects of living, working and relaxing in Dover. In order to be successful they need broad and engaged interactions with people in the Dover Community. They are developing and holding community conversations and neighborhood meetings starting March 10th and want YOU involved!

Can you see Dover's future? Help us visualize our tomorrow!

The City of Dover has changed significantly over the last decade. What will happen in the next?

Do you want more growth or less? Do you want more of the same? How about something else? NOW is the time to think about these questions and more. We need you to share your ideas and dreams for Dover. No idea is too small, no dream too big.

Developing a vision for our City is the key to building the community that we want to be.

Dover 2023 is a community wide project which will shape a vision for what Dover can be as it reaches its 400th anniversary in 2023. The project will host a series of community brainstorming conversations and neighborhood workshops over the next three months. These meetings will be the opportunity for you to tell us your dreams for the City! Your dreams and ideas will build a vision which will shape the City's decisions for the next decade and be the foundation for a new and improved tomorrow.

Dover Main Street Holiday Events

Don't forget about these great activities during the Holiday season!

The holidays are approaching fast and before your calendar gets booked make sure you mark your calendar with the following dates. Once again, Dover Main Street, is gearing up with some exciting family holiday events and you don't want to miss out.

The events will kick off with the annual tree lighting ceremony on Friday, December 2nd. Bring the children to the Rotary Pavilion at Henry Law Park for the 6:00pm lighting. Immediately following the tree lighting ceremony the children are welcome to visit with Santa and let him know what is on their wish list this year. Watch the wonder of your children's eyes come to life as they sit awhile with Santa. Then take a quick turn up the road and visit the Festival of Trees at Dover City Hall.

On Saturday, December 3rd it is back to the workshop for Santa and Mrs. Claus. Families are welcome to stop by The Noggin Factory from 10:00 am until noon and again from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm to visit with Santa. Bring your camera and capture this special moment. During the lunch hour you will be able to catch up with Santa as he checks in with the merchants and shoppers of downtown Dover.

Holiday events will continue throughout the month including the cookie decorating event at Café Ciabatta from 9:00 am to 11:00 am on December 10th. The cost for this event is $2.00 per cookie and Mr. and Mrs. Claus will be on hand to help the children create a Christmas masterpiece. Immediate following Santa will head down Central Avenue for his Santa stroll and will eventually stop for a rest at Café on The Corner. There he'll be joined by Dover's Mayor who will read a story to all in attendance.

On December 11th there will be recreational public skating at the Dover Ice Arena from 1:30 to 3:30 pm. Children will be welcome to gather around Santa and Mrs. Claus from 3:00 to 3:30 pm for story time and holiday songs.

Join us at Kaleo Coffee located in the Janetos Plaza for a pancake breakfast with Santa from 9:00 - 11:00 on December 17th. Dover Kiwanis will be providing a special breakfast for children and families as they stop by to see Santa. Immediately following the breakfast, Santa and Mrs. Claus will take one last stroll around downtown Dover to make sure that everyone is prepared for Christmas.

The grand finale of the Dover Main Street Christmas festivities will be on December 22nd at high noon. There are over 24 businesses in downtown that will be collecting non-perishable items during the weeks prior to Christmas. On December 22nd, all of the donated food will be collected into shopping carts and there will be a Shopping Cart Parade down the sidewalks of Central Ave, The food and donated items will arrive on the doorstep of the Dover Food Pantry to help them make the season a little easier for some of our local families.

Santa is Coming to Town

The holidays are approaching fast and before your calendar gets booked make sure you mark your calendar with the following dates. Once again, Dover Main Street, is gearing up with some exciting family holiday events and you don’t want to miss out.

The events will kick off with the annual tree lighting ceremony on Friday, December 2nd. Bring the children to the Rotary Pavilion at Henry Law Park for the 6:00pm lighting. Immediately following the tree lighting ceremony the children are welcome to visit with Santa and let him know what is on their wish list this year. Watch the wonder of your children’s eyes come to life as they sit awhile with Santa. Then take a quick turn up the road and visit the Festival of Trees at Dover City Hall.

On Saturday, December 3rd it is back to the workshop for Santa and Mrs. Claus. Families are welcome to stop by The Noggin Factory from 10:00 am until noon and again from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm to visit with Santa. Bring your camera and capture this special moment. During the lunch hour you will be able to catch up with Santa as he checks in with the merchants and shoppers of downtown Dover.

Holiday events will continue throughout the month including the cookie decorating event at Café Ciabatta from 9:00 am to 11:00 am on December 10th. The cost for this event is $2.00 per cookie and Mr. and Mrs. Claus will be on hand to help the children create a Christmas masterpiece. Immediate following Santa will head down Central Avenue for his Santa stroll and will eventually stop for a rest at Café on The Corner. There he’ll be joined by Dover’s Mayor who will read a story to all in attendance.

On December 11th there will be recreational public skating at the Dover Ice Arena from 1:30 to 3:30 pm. Children will be welcome to gather around Santa and Mrs. Claus from 3:00 to 3:30 pm for story time and holiday songs.

Join us at Kaleo Coffee located in the Janetos Plaza for a pancake breakfast with Santa from 9:00 – 11:00 on December 17th. Dover Kiwanis will be providing a special breakfast for children and families as they stop by to see Santa. Immediately following the breakfast, Santa and Mrs. Claus will take one last stroll around downtown Dover to make sure that everyone is prepared for Christmas.

The grand finale of the Dover Main Street Christmas festivities will be on December 22nd at high noon. There are over 20 businesses in downtown that will be collecting non-perishable items during the weeks prior to Christmas. On December 22nd, all of the donated food will be collected into shopping carts and there will be a Shopping Cart Parade down the sidewalks of Central Ave, The food and donated items will arrive on the doorstep of the Dover Food Pantry to help them make the season a little easier for some of our local families.

Dover Main Street

2011 Holiday Schedule of Events:

Friday, November 25 – December 22

- Dover Main Street Food Drive – bring your non-perishable item to any one of the participating businesses* to help the Dover Food Pantry. On December 22 at 12noon join us for the Food Drive Shopping Cart Parade down Central Ave. as we bring the collected items to the Food Pantry.

Friday, December 2:

- Tree Lighting Ceremony/Visit with Santa - Rotary Pavilion, Henry Law Park, 6:00 p.m.

- Festival of Trees – Dover City Hall Auditorium, 6:00 pm to 8:00pm. Decorated trees available for silent auction, live music, hot cocoa and holiday treats.

Saturday, December 3:

- Visit with Santa & Mrs. Claus at their local workshop, The Noggin Factory, 10:00 a.m. to 12 noon and 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.; bring your own camera to take a picture with the Clauses

- Downtown Santa Stroll - 12:00noon

Saturday, December 10:

- Cookie Decorating with Santa and Mrs. Claus, Café Ciabatta, 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. $2.00 per cookie

- Downtown Santa Stroll - 11:00 a.m.

- Holiday Reading/Visit with Santa & Mrs. Claus and Dover Mayor at Café on the Corner, 1:00 p.m., bring your own camera to take a picture with the Clauses

Sunday, December 11:

- Dover Ice Arena – Recreational public skate, 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Story time and songs with Santa and Mrs. Claus, 3:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Saturday, December 17:

- Pancake Breakfast with Santa. From 9:00 to 11:00am Dover Main Street and Dover Kiwanis will host a special breakfast. Suggested $3.00 donation. Location – Kaleo Coffee function room, Janetos Plaza.

- Final Santa & Mrs. Claus stroll of the holiday season throughout downtown Dover at 11:00 a.m.

* Food Drive Participating Businesses:

All CrittersCorner

at&t - One Second Wireless

BHG Real Estate - The Masiello Group

Central Wave

Century 21 Central Falls Realty

DBY Designs By You

Dover Wine Company

Edward Jones

Elite Hobbies & Models

Garrison Hill Florist

Harvey's Bakery and Coffee Shop

Horizon Travel

Janetos Superette

Jewelry Creations

Kaleo Coffee

Lucy's Art Emporium

Nicole's Hallmark

Noggin Factory

One Second Computers

PagePro Wireless

Ross Furniture

Smiley's

Sweet Meadows Flower Shop

Dover Main Street is a not for profit downtown revitalization organization which operates under the auspices of the National Main Street Center, a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The Dover Main Street mission is to preserve the past, promote the present, and facilitate the future. Dover is celebrating its 12th year as a fully accredited National Main Street Program.

Volunteers are always welcome and needed to assist in planning and completing projects. To find out more information, to sign up as a volunteer, or to donate to the Dover Main Street Program, contact the office at 740-6435 or email director@dovermainstreet.org.

Downtown Dover Trick or Treating

Join us in Downtown Dover for Trick or Treating Saturday, October 29, 2011 from 10:00am to 3:00pm 20 businesses to visit!

It's the MAIN STREET MONSTER MASH!! Bring your little Monster to Dover on Saturday!! Come do your trick or treating in Downtown Dover! These businesses are participating in the Main Street Monster Mash - a business trick or treating event for downtown Dover, NH. Saturday, October 29th from 10:00 to 3:00 Look for the "Enter if you Dare" signs! Children's Museum of NH - hosting the Not-So-Spooky Spectacular from 10-3 Noggin Factory! Janetos Superette Garrison Hill Florist Asia Restaurant Ross Furniture One Second Computers Jewelry Creations Nicole's Hallmark Harvey's Bakery and Coffee Shop Central Wave Dover Wine Company Dover Brickhouse Weeks Restaurant Elite Hobbies & Models PagePro Wireless Lucy's Art Emporium Cornerstone Tax Services Dos Amigos Burritos

Dover Main Street News

We've got a lot of exciting news so please take a moment to catch up with all that is happening with Dover Main Street!!

First & Foremost we'd like to thank all of those who made our Dover Pride Clean-Up Day such a success! The weather was perfect, the turnout was great and downtown Dover is looking beautiful. The name of the event says it all, Dover Pride, and this was demonstrated by the over 300 volunteers who picked up trash, swept, weeded, raked, planted and mulched sites throughout the downtown.

Along with thanking our volunteers we would like to thank those businesses that generously supported this event. Centrix Bank was the event's underwriter, without them this event would not be possible. Reverie Design provided graphic design services. We would also like to thank the wonderful folks at Wentworth Greenhouses who donate to the beautification of downtown Dover year round and who assisted in providing plants for the facelift in Henry Law Park. In addition landscape designer Norm Fracassa of Fracassa Designworks generously donated his landscape design expertise to the Henry Law Park facelift.

Thank you to the Dover Kiwanis who kept our volunteers going all morning with their pancake breakfast. Thank you to Kaleo Coffee's mid-morning coffee delivery, as well as Seacoast Coca Cola Bottling Company's donation of soda and water to keep everyone hydrated. After all that hard work our volunteers were very thankful to Kendall Pond Pizza for donating pizza once again!

A big thank you goes to Dover's Community Services Department who assisted before, during and after the event. We greatly appreciate all of their hard work on this event and every day making our city look great. A special thank you to the city councilors and city staff who also participated in Dover Pride Clean Up Day; Mayor Myers, Councilor Carrier, Councilor Cheney, Councilor Weston and all City Department staff. Finally, thank you to site leaders who helped direct and oversee each site, your leadership is greatly appreciated.

And as always, we are continually looking for volunteers to help promote, maintain and assist with all of our programs. If you are looking to get involved at any level please feel free to contact me at director@dovermainstreet.org.

Dover Dines ’11 Restaurant Week Take a Bite Out of Dover

Dover, NH has claimed its place on the map as the place to find fine dining at a reasonable price. In an effort to promote the fabulous restaurants Dover has to offer, Dover Main Street and the Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce, in conjunction with in conjunction with Reverie Designs and PortsmouthNH.com, along with support from Foster's Daily Democrat, The Shark, Seacoast Media Group, The Wire and Taste of the Seacoast, are all very excited to announce Dover Dines ’11!

June 4-11th will be a week of fine dining at a great fixed price with each participating restaurant offering a 3 course prix fixe dinner for $15.95 or $21.95, many restaurants will also offer a $7.95 two course lunch. “This is a great opportunity for people to get out and rediscover a restaurant they might not have been to in awhile or to support a few of their favorites without breaking the bank.” says Carrie Eisner, program director for Dover Main Street.

With 11 local restaurants participating, from a full range of cuisines and tastes, event organizers and Dover Main Street board members, Mike Cartelli and Martha Mason are looking forward to a successful event. “There really is something for everyone being offered this week. We hope people will take advantage of the event and try a couple of different places throughout the week.”

Restaurants participating are Alexander’s Italian Restaurant, Blue Latitudes, Cartelli’s Bar & Grill, Harvey’s Bakery & Coffee Shop, The Farm Bar & Grille, Krave, Kelley’s Row, La Festa Brick & Brew Pizzeria, Orchard Street Chop Shop, Three Chimney’s Inn and The Weathervane Seafood Restaurant. With participation from most of Dover’s fine restaurants, you are bound to be treated to a great meal at a great price.

Molly Hodgson Smith, Executive Director of the Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce notes that “It’s the perfect week to come to Dover for dinner with family and friends, or lunch with co-workers. The fixed price menu gives you the opportunity to sample all the unique and interesting restaurants in the city at a very affordable price. Now more than ever, it is important for everyone to be supporting locally owned businesses in our community.”

For more information visit the Dover Dines website dedicated to the event through www.WeShopDover.com or by calling the Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce at 603-742-2218 or Dover Main Street at 603-740-6435.

Dover Main Street is a not for profit downtown revitalization organization of volunteers who operate under the auspices of the National Main Street Center, a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The Dover Main Street mission is to preserve the past, promote the present, and facilitate the future. Volunteers are always welcome and needed to assist in planning and completing their many projects. To find out more information, to sign up as a volunteer, or to donate to the Dover Main Street Program, please contact the office at 740-6435 or email director@dovermainstreet.org.

The Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce is a not-for-profit association of businesses, professionals, individuals, and organizations working together to advance the economic well-being of its members and the community. For more information, call 603-742-2218, e-mail info@dovernh.org, or visit www.dovernh.org.

Three Firms Join Dover Chamber Winsor Brook, North & South and Dover Main Street

Pictured L to R: Dover Main Street Board Member Connie Roy of Reverie Design; Chamber Board Member Donna Coraluzzo of the Dover Children’s Home; Jason Garland of Winsor Brook; Jessica Smith of Winsor Brook; Chamber Board member Doug Glennon of Glennon Consulting; Chamber Executive Director Molly Hodgson Smith; Dover Mayor Scott Myers; Pete Johnson of North & South; Andy Tobin of North & South; Ed Conroy of North & South; Chamber Board Chair Mike Bolduc of Wyskiel, Boc, Tillinghast & Bolduc.

DOVER, NH — Winsor Brook Property Advisors and North and South Custom Builders recently joined the Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce, and held a ribbon cutting ceremony in their new facility at 383 Central Avenue, Suite 150, located in the Cocheco Falls Millworks in downtown Dover. Also celebrating was Dover Main Street, which is being provided with office space within the new Winsor Brook facility.

After merging Winsor Brook’s Construction division with North and South in mid-2010, they have found their company growing at a fast pace, with North and South adding 20 new employees in the last several months. “In this economy, we are fortunate to be having such tremendous success where other companies are downsizing. We believe that there are opportunities for both companies to help position ourselves to be a long-term player in this competitive market,” stated Pete Johnson of North and South.

The new facility is three times the size of the previous office space, and will allow for projected expansions. “Our new headquarters will provide us with the facilities and infrastructure necessary to accommodate our next stage of growth. We have designed the offices to support our team approach, encouraging employee collaboration.” stated Jessica Smith of Winsor Brook.

North & South Custom Builders is experienced in all factions of Construction including Commercial & Residential, Planning & Design and Property Maintenance Services. Their many years of expertise in the construction business present cost effective solutions to both construction and property maintenance needs, whether it be simple repairs, roofing, siding, renovations or new construction. They provide quality results on your project from the beginning to the end, on time and on budget. Their services include design & planning, permits, construction, and quality control.

Founded in 2002 by owners Doreen Rainville and Jessica Smith, Winsor Brook Property Advisors has evolved from a small real estate brokerage and property management firm into one of the largest commercial real estate companies in Seacoast NH. Dedicated to providing clients with quality service and expertise, Winsor Brook stands far ahead of other brokerage firms in the State. Clients range from large national and local corporations such as Dell to family run businesses like the Noggin Factory.

Dover Main Street is part of the nationwide Main Street Program, whose focus is on commercial district revitalization through supporting and encouraging economic development within the context of historic preservation. This approach advocates a return to community self-reliance, empowerment, and the rebuilding of commercial districts based on its traditional assets: unique architecture, personal service, local ownership, and a sense of community. A key player in the Dover Community, some of Main Street’s signature programs and initiatives include the annual Dover Pride Cleanup Day, Historic Reveals, Dover’s Adopt-a-Spot Program and the Taste of Dover, as well as other community events that are co-produced along with the Chamber of Commerce, such as Dover Dines Restaurant Week and the Seacoast Irish Festival.

For more information on these three organizations, please visit www.winsorbrook.com, www.northsouthnh.com, and www.dovermainstreet.org.

The Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce is a not-for-profit association of businesses, professionals, individuals, and organizations working together to advance the economic well-being of its members and the community. For details on Dover Chamber membership and other programs or for a schedule of activities, please call the Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce at 603-742-2218, e-mail info@dovernh.org, or visit www.dovernh.org.