Dorchester Times: OPEN FORUM: June 2010

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

OPEN FORUM: June 2010

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16 comments:

AnonymousJune 1, 2010 at 5:22 PM
Is there any word on Dorchester's fourth of July schedule of events? Please post it when you get it.
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Vested CzechJune 1, 2010 at 5:51 PM
Congratulations to my dear friend who graduated 50 years ago this past spring from UNL Teachers College. You have helped more children than you will ever know.
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Class of 1980June 1, 2010 at 10:32 PM
Great article for those of us pushing 50.

Happiness May Come With Age, Study Says

The results, published online May 17 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, were good news for old people, and for those who are getting old. On the global measure, people start out at age 18 feeling pretty good about themselves, and then, apparently, life begins to throw curve balls. They feel worse and worse until they hit 50. At that point, there is a sharp reversal, and people keep getting happier as they age. By the time they are 85, they are even more satisfied with themselves than they were at 18.

http://www.nytimes.com
/2010/06/01/health/research
/01happy.html?src=me&ref=homepage
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AnonymousJune 2, 2010 at 10:37 AM
I agree with the study posted by “Class of 1980.” I always heard that life begins at 40. However, I discovered that many so-called loyal friends and family decided to abandon me as I was no longer useful to them. In addition, employment layoffs made much of the decade unsettling. As 50 approaches, things seem to have “evened out” and I am more cautious as to who receives my friendship. In other words, I have developed better filters.
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Big ThinkJune 2, 2010 at 11:34 AM
Maybe it's because at age 50, most people are just finally figuring out that the point of earthly life is not to get too comfortable here.

It's a short one, folks.
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AnonymousJune 2, 2010 at 11:40 PM
Nice article Mr. Johnson

just goes to show you that the bloggers dont know what they are talking about most of the time
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AnonymousJune 2, 2010 at 11:50 PM
Let's get paving, baby!
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AnonymousJune 9, 2010 at 10:44 AM
Does a DHS Alumni work for the Lincoln Saltdogs? I heard this through the grape-vine but don't know if there's any truth behind it.

DHS 80's Grad
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AnonymousJune 11, 2010 at 8:22 PM
What will Dorchester be offering for 4th of July? I keep hearing it is quite a show but I've seen nothing about the events.

OMAHA READER
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AnonymousJune 21, 2010 at 5:21 PM
Hello,

I am doing genealogy research and was wondering how Saline County residents pronounce the following name: Busboom

Is it Bus-boom or Bush-bomb?

I have heard both usages.

Thank You
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WIlber AlumJune 21, 2010 at 7:55 PM
Thank you to the Dorchester residents who are Wilber graduates for attending the Wilber Alumni banquet earlier this month. Attendance has fallen in the past few years and it was good to see you at the gathering. By the way, the Class of 1955 appeared to be really rockin. After 55 years, it was time to cut loose!
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P. Hill GuyJune 21, 2010 at 10:48 PM
I think BUS-boom is the preferred pronounciation.
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AnonymousJune 22, 2010 at 5:28 AM
Thank you to "P. Hill Guy" for the correct pronounciation of Busboom.
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A Friend from WilberJune 26, 2010 at 8:56 AM
I know we have a lot of political junkies on this board who may be interested in the following black and white film clip.(No sound)I found this on YouTube. It's footage of Bobby Kennedy's visit to Wilber to dedicate Czech Village and campaign for the 1968 NE primary. John Glenn is also in the film. Kennedy was killed three weeks later.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeNxQIv7k94
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MSJune 30, 2010 at 8:56 AM
Thanks to the Dorchester Times for providing this service.
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AnonymousJuly 2, 2010 at 6:01 PM
Why don't we hear anything about the fantastic coaching of two local boys/men that have taken Dorchester's National baseball team in the SFS league, to the chapionship game to be played Tues.
nite, July 6th in McCool Jct. They have already won the traveling trophy & are # 1 seed in the tournement.
Matt Carroll & Kurt Bleach have led a Dorchester team to where they haven't been for several years.
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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."