Dorchester Times: DHS Sports Preview Set For Tomorrow

Thursday, August 23, 2007

DHS Sports Preview Set For Tomorrow

With only one week remaining until the official kickoff of the DHS fall sports schedule, Longhorn fans will be given a chance tomorrow (Aug. 24) to preview this year's Dorchester teams.

A special event featuring scrimmages of both the volleyball and football teams will be held Friday evening at the school. The DHS Fall Sports Preview will begin at 5:30 p.m.

The Gatorade volleyball scrimmage will get underway at 6 p.m. The Gatorade football scrimmage will start at 7:30 p.m.

Both teams have high expectations this season. Longhorn fans are encouraged to meet and hear from the players and coaches who will lead the "Orange and Black Attack" this season.

10 comments:

AnonymousAugust 23, 2007 at 3:45 PM
GET 'R DONE, HORNS!!!!
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AnonymousAugust 23, 2007 at 5:07 PM
I'm looking forward watching both volleyball and football games this season. The kids work very hard and so do the parents. Good luck to the kids and the coaches!!!!
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AnonymousAugust 23, 2007 at 5:22 PM
Just like the Huskers, the Longhorns are back on track. I am predicting they will win all but maybe one game this year. Watch for the Bruha boy at QB.
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AnonymousAugust 23, 2007 at 6:02 PM
how i long to see the longhorns rated in the lincoln or omaha papers as they used to be 20 years ago.
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AnonymousAugust 24, 2007 at 8:47 AM
You guys all think these longhorns are the greatest thing ever. They will not have a good season this year and they pry wont even win a game or districts. Bruha will pry get hurt and be done early this year also so there season is over already.
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AnonymousAugust 24, 2007 at 9:39 AM
Wow, negative "anonymous"...way to support the home team.
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AnonymousAugust 24, 2007 at 10:05 AM
Looks like the Friend fanatic is back at it ................ Dweller, you should block this persons comments.........
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AnonymousAugust 25, 2007 at 11:43 PM
Hey Dweller...i think that you should also block any other person who complains about other peoples comments...but wait...its cynical richard complaining, so we might as well let him continue to whine and complain...its what he does best..or...better idea--let him look at all of the posts and see what he thinks other people should be allowed to say then he could never whine and complain again
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AnonymousAugust 28, 2007 at 9:15 PM
al man - apparently you missed the girls bb team being rated during the 2004 and 2005 seasons = ended up 10th in 2004 and was rated for several weeks during the 2005 season. Give the recent grads some credit.

....and the other "anonymous" - you need to start supporting a different school. Our school and athletes don't need or want that kind of support.
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AnonymousSeptember 4, 2007 at 8:27 PM
I just want to say the longhorns are the greatest kids around. But Bruha isn't the only kid out their playing. I thought they all looked good. And they do have a back up QB, if they need him. Good LUCK lONGHORNS
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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."