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  • Annual craft show supports artisans, scholarships and welfare programs

    If you're running behind with your Christmas shopping this year, then the Dover Air Force Base Officer's Spouses Club has got a great deal for you. The 21st Annual Dover OSC Craft Show will showcase more than 200 vendors selling their handmade gift ideas. One of the largest single-day craft shows on

  • Safeguarding against violence in the home

    Home is meant to be a safe haven - a place to receive hugs and reinforce a sense of belonging and acceptance when the world outside seems filled with conflicts and battles. The home can be a "training field" to enrich family members' lives, but in some unfortunate circumstances it has become a

  • Dover AFB fights fire with prevention

    The Dover Air Force Base Fire Department finished off their annual Fire Prevention Week with a parade through base housing and an open house at the base fire station Saturday. Many Dover families attended the open house where fire fighters not only show-cased their skills and equipment but trained

  • Members muster for fire prevention

    Next to a fire hydrant in the Eagles Nest Picnic Area, squadron teams square off in an unconventional battle, wearing the unfamiliar gear of a firefighter: helmet with face shield, thick heat-resistant jacket and pair of gloves; all on top of their BDUs. These four-man teams competed in Dover Air

  • Dover AFB’s Open House wows public

    The finale to ten months of preparing, scheduling and implementing plans came to a climactic ending Saturday and Sunday when Dover Air Force Base successfully hosted its two-day 2006 Open House here. People arrived from all over the country to enjoy performances from a lengthy list of aerial

  • Energy conservation a priority for Dover AFB

    October is National Energy Conservation Month and Dover Air Force Base is moving into the second phase of a large-scale Energy Savings Performance Contract worth $17 million. The project is expected to take nearly two years to build, but will save the base an estimated $750,000 a year after its

  • Dover C-5s revamp 'tail flash'

    Just as the behemoth C-5s are a familiar sight over the skies of Dover, so are the bright yellow tail flashes identifying them as part of Dover's fleet. While the sight of C-5s in Delaware's airspace will not change, all aircraft in Dover Air Force Base's inventory will be receiving a new tail flash

  • MILCON brief informs state leaders on current, future base construction

    More than 130 members from the Dover-area business community joined Delaware's congressional delegation and attended the 2006 Dover Air Force Base Military Construction briefing at the Sheraton Dover's Venetian Ballroom Monday. Col. Chad Manske, 436th Airlift Wing vice commander, briefed a crowd