Dorchester Times: Dorchester Street Dance Set For July 3

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Dorchester Street Dance Set For July 3

As noted by our readers, for the first time in several years, Dorchester's main st

reet will be the stage for a top-notch street dance.

The Dorchester Volunteer Fire & Rescue Street Dance is set for Saturday, July 3. The event will start at 8 p.m. and last until midnight.

The street dance will feature live entertainment from The Shelia Greenwood Band, as well as beverages and plenty of food provided by local organizations.

If you are on Facebook, you can indicate whether you plan to attend by going by clicking here.

13 comments:

AnonymousJune 17, 2010 at 9:08 PM
There is no way it was 15 years ago.
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Street Dance fanJune 18, 2010 at 3:58 AM
Wow! Go Dorchester. Hope it goes really well :)
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cynical richardJune 18, 2010 at 9:03 AM
good thing its on main street ......................................................... if it was in a side street we'd have more fatalities by potholes than a poker party with van der sloot
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AnonymousJune 18, 2010 at 2:31 PM
Anonymous -- you don't know what you are talking about. The last street dance was 1993.

dorchester firefighter
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AnonymousJune 18, 2010 at 4:53 PM
Sorry, I think it was 2000.
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AnonymousJune 18, 2010 at 4:53 PM
I was at a Dorchester street dance in 1999.
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AnonymousJune 19, 2010 at 5:18 PM
I agree with anonymous i have a coolie cup that says Dorchester Street Dance 2000
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AnonymousJune 21, 2010 at 1:36 PM
I also agree with Anonymous I have the coolie cup from 2000 and I also remember being there.

Former DVFD Firefighter
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AnonymousJune 21, 2010 at 9:17 PM
I met my husband at the Dorchester street dance in 2002.
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AnonymousJune 29, 2010 at 10:23 AM
HAAAAAAHAAAAAAHAAAAA!
Do you know where you were the last Dorchester street dance.
I remember the first one.
Not enough porta potties.
Enough said.
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cynical richardJune 29, 2010 at 11:54 AM
Street dances ....................... what a waste of time and space .................................................. next thing you know they will be starting a nationwide bailout fund for the commies in china ............................ oh wait, that is already happening ............................. buy fireworks ..............................
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AnonymousJune 30, 2010 at 6:42 AM
can kids attend with parents, and does it cost to bring the kiddos? anyone know??
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AnonymousJuly 4, 2010 at 9:18 AM
You should be ashamed of yourself, richard, the fire dept does this to help them buy things, your nasty remarks are not needed. You need to to something better with your time, like maybe volunteering yourself, but who would want a nasty person like you saving there lifes.
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Dorchester: A Good Little Family Town

Dorchester, Nebraska (est. population 630) is located in northern Saline county. Close in proximity to Interstate 80, Dorchester is only 25 minutes from the state capital of Lincoln (est. population 250,000) and about 55 minutes from Omaha (metro population 725,000).

Dorchester's median resident age is 37 years. In 2005, Dorchester had a median family income of approximately $35,600. The median house value was about $63,000. About 95 percent of Dorchester residents commute to work via Interstate and highways.

The village has a quality public school, which received a $4.1 million expansion and modernization in 2008; it offers a small classrooms and individualized attention. Total enrollment of grades K-12 is around 230-250 students.

Ancestries of the Dorchester area are primarily German (42.4%), Czech (24.9%), Irish (12.5%), English (5.4%), and Dutch (4.9%).

Dorchester Historical Facts

* On July 4, 1871, the railroad reached Dorchester.
* Incorporated in 1881, Dorchester's population grew from 200 to 500 by 1882.
* In 1882, Dorchester had 90 buildings, 35 of which were businesses or public facilities. Brick buildings lined both sides of Washington Avenue for two blocks.
* Dorchester's longest-running newspaper was The Dorchester Star, which was published until the late 1940s.
* By 1889, Dorchester's population is said to have reached 800, while the town housed an opera house, a two-story brick schoolhouse with a bell tower, and four churches.
* By the 1910s, Dorchester had electricity, a water tower and a fire department.
* Dorchester's main arteries, Highways 6 and 33, were graveled in the 1940s.
* Dorchester's first irrigation well was drilled on Chris Weber's farm and rural electrification was finished following WWII.

A Village with History

Dorchester is one of the "alphabet towns" on the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad line built west from Lincoln. The town site was selected for its pleasant location in the northern part of Saline County, about eight miles west of Crete. This situation is an attractive one, being on the level prairie land, midway between the West Blue River and Turkey Creek. The first named stream is three miles north, and the latter about the same distance south from the town. Dorchester was platted in 1870 and incorporated in 1881. The name "Dorchester" came from either for a suburb of Boston by that name or a town in England. No one is sure. Two of the very first settlers were James Seely and Edward McIntyre, who both made Dorchester their permanent home.

Dorchester: In The Beginning

Here is a look at Dorchester around 1890, less than a decade after its official incorporation, as documented by Andreas' History of the State of Nebraska:
* POPULATION: "About 300, and is made up of a substantial and progressive class of citizens, who are moral and industrious. ... The town grew but very little until the year 1879, for the reason that Pleasant Hill, on Turkey Creek, a short distance south, was the county seat and naturally drew a trade for quite a large scope of country."
* BUSINESS: "The business and professional interests of the town are represented by three general merchandise stores, two drug, one grocery, one furniture, two hardware, and two millinery stores, one bank, two restaurants, two hotels, three livery stables, a post office, one newspaper office, two elevators, two lumber yards, two coal yards, two blacksmith shops, two lawyers and four physicians."
* SCHOOL: "The schoolhouse is a good one. The schoolhouse was built in 1872, since which time the public schools have been continually kept up. The present schoolhouse is 24' x 40' in size, two stories high. The school is graded and consists of three departments. The house is found too small, and arrangements will soon be made to increase its size."
* CHURCHES: "There are three substantial churches."
* HOMES: "The residence portion of the village is made up of neat houses of different styles of architecture, but none of them very large."
* NEWSPAPER: "The Dorchester Star, which was established August 21, 1881, by H. C. Bittenbender, who edited it until January 19, 1882, when he sold it to Ryerson & Bullock, the present proprietors. The Star is a bright weekly paper, five-column quarto, in size, and is Republican in politics."