Dorchester Times: New Ad Recruits Student Athletes To DHS

Thursday, November 29, 2012

New Ad Recruits Student Athletes To DHS

Attention Area Student Athletes

(Grades 7-11)

Do You Want To:

ü Play at the Varsity Level During Your High School Career?

ü Get Noticed on the Field or Court – and in the Classroom?

ü Play Multiple Sports?

ü Get a Top-Notch Education?

We Want You To Come To Dorchester Schools!

DORCHESTER HIGH SCHOOL – HOME OF THE LONGHORNS

Dorchester Public Schools is a K-12 facility that offers:

§ Small classes with great teachers.

§ A friendly, comfortable, modern setting to meet the needs of individual students.

§ Great opportunities to participate in team sports and other extra-curricular activities.

Option Enrollment deadline for students wanting to play sports next fall is March 14.

For more information, call Dorchester School at (402) 946-2781.

Dorchester is located 25 minutes southwest of Lincoln in northern Saline County. Transfer/Option-Enrollment students are welcome. DHS athletic teams compete in Class D, but will soon be co-oping with Milford High School to play Class C in football and perhaps other sports. Quality coaches for every sport. A new $4.1 million school building (built in 2008) offers a large weight room, two gyms and a new wrestling room. Our facilities also feature new classrooms, a first-class theater, band room and large computer labs.

To play sports next season, you have only until March 15 to sign up for option enrollment.

This ad was neither produced nor paid for by Dorchester Public Schools, but by private citizens. Inquiries about Dorchester Schools and its athletic programs should be directed to school officials at 402-946-2781.

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AnonymousNovember 29, 2012 at 5:24 PM
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AnonymousNovember 29, 2012 at 6:11 PM
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diane velderNovember 29, 2012 at 7:10 PM
Someone who is so tuff,then why dont you write your name. Throwing those kind of words around, just shows how immature you are. I think that you may need some to get some manners. It sounds like you are the one carrying a grudge. I think someone, who would write something so nasty, may need some counciling. Iam from Dorchester, and dam proud of it.
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Village DwellerNovember 29, 2012 at 7:13 PM
Dear readers:

Due to a small handful of readers who seem to struggle with the concept of intelligent, thoughtful and mature commentary, no comments will be permitted on this post.

We apologize.

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AnonymousNovember 29, 2012 at 8:17 PM
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha dorchester is so desperate.
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Village DwellerNovember 29, 2012 at 11:00 PM
See what we mean?
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AnonymousNovember 30, 2012 at 11:40 AM
Why can't we embrace our small town and school and build it up? Be proud of our town, our children and our school. I think it would be GREAT to get kids from other towns to opt in to Dorchester for sports and academics. Lets put us back on the map.
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AnonymousNovember 30, 2012 at 12:18 PM
I "second" the motion above.

PUT DORCHESTER BACK ON THE MAP, BABY!
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Village DwellerNovember 30, 2012 at 6:22 PM
To the reader who keeps writing the negative comments about Dorchester, its school and children:

You need a life, friend.

Keep trying. We will continue to block your disparaging words.

Obviously, some experience has made you a miserable person with many grudges.

We hope you find some peace and happiness in a way that doesn't involve tearing down Dorchester.
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AnonymousDecember 1, 2012 at 9:59 PM
I heard that some of the huskers wanted to play for Dorchester but Dorchester rejected them
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AnonymousDecember 2, 2012 at 12:39 AM
That's not what Kensey in Dorchester would say .... She's the little girl who calls Big Red Reaction every week.
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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."