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News Briefs: Dorchester Will Be Featured In Journal Star
Dorchester Will Be Featured In Journal Star Series: The Lincoln Journal Star yesterday (March 2) unveiled a new series called "Under 1,000" to spotlight Nebraska small towns with fewer than a thousand residents. The newspaper announced that Dorchester will be the second community featured in the series. The story on our community will run in the April 6 edition of the Sunday Journal-Star in the Hometown section of the paper. For the next 18 months, on the first Sunday of each month, the newspaper will report on one town from each southeast Nebraska county. The first town featured was Cook, Neb. -- population 330 -- in Johnson County. The town of Cook was noted for its several community awards, including being named the "Best Small Town in America" contest run by Jack Daniel Distillery, as well its designation as a "Community of the Century" by the Nebraska Community Improvement Program and a "Tree City USA" by the Arbor Day Foundation.
- Dorchester's Jacy Hewitt Takes 2nd Place In Selling Bee: It has been brought to the attention of the Times that Dorchester eighth grader Jacy Hewitt finished in second place at the recent Saline County Spelling Bee held in early February. Our congratulations to Jacy.
- Saline County Named As Prosperous Rural County: According to three University of Illinois researchers, Saline County is a prosperous rural county, along with 29 other Nebraska counties in rural Nebraska. The Illinois study, called "Why Some Rural Communities Prosper While Others Do Not," challenges the conventional wisdom about rural America. The researchers say that prosperity does not necessarily hinge on population growth. They focused instead on the "outcomes" of rural America that people seek — low unemployment, low school dropout rates, little poverty and good housing — and whether rural counties rank "above average." Rural people "are so used to thinking of themselves as the poor cousins that the very fact that hundreds of rural areas do better than the nation as a whole was a big surprise. Rural prosperity exists," said Andrew Isserman, a rural sociologist who led the study.
- Havlat Sings Anthem At Qwest Center: Dorchester High School junior Amy Havlat was selected to perform the Star-Spangled Banner at the recent 2008 Nebraska State High School Wrestling Tournament at the Omaha Qwest Center. Havlat was selected from among more than 40 other students who submitted their audition recordings to the Nebraska School Activities Association. We salute Amy for her performance and recognition by the NSAA.
It will be interesting to read about the methodology used for the rural prosperity study. A few years ago Nebraska was listed by the U.S. Census Bureau as being home to the nine poorest counties in the U.S. (Despite the fact that the state receives 1 billion dollars per year in farm subsidies.)
ReplyDeleteI agree there is some prosperity in these parts ....... let me put it this way, it ain't city boys who are driving up the cost of farmland..........
ReplyDeleteI sure hope they take pictures of the better parts of town, I would really hate to see pictures of the worst parts of town in the paper.
ReplyDeleteI hope the paper interviews those who are forward looking, not the handful of naysayers who always seem so loud.
ReplyDeleteCongrats, Dorchester!
ReplyDeleteYou should be very proud of your community.
I did not know Dorchester had any good parts of town. It is all mud and water holes. They will have to go to a section where there is a few nice housed together ( on pavement) and snap a photo. Good luck to them because I don't see any city people helping them out.
ReplyDeleteIt is really sad.
Who let Friend people put comments on this.........
ReplyDeleteso what if friend people write on this, is better than hearing about what you write cynical.
ReplyDeleteso what if friend people write on this, is better than hearing about what you write cynical.
ReplyDeleteWhat is worse than a run-on sentence? Reading the same one twice in a row.
ReplyDeleteI think that bob, and cynical richard, are both the rudest people, that comment on here. It's nice to know that something good can come out of these artticles, and it isn't from what they say.
ReplyDeleteAs a Dorchester resident, I think it is in really poor taste to lash out at someone from another town, just for posting on this site. No where does it say residents only. I was not born in Dorchester or Nebraska for that matter, does that mean I am not welcome to post on here either. Yes I was born in the US before you ask.
ReplyDeleteI think we all need to focus on Dorchester, not outsiders. We are the ones who have to live in our town and with one another. That is why I'll be voting for the city board candidates who promise to finally pave our streets. I could care less what people in other towns think or do.
ReplyDeletecj........do you live in dorchester??? Our taxes just went up a bunch with the new school. Where do you get your money??
ReplyDeleteTo the anonymous writer, I do live in Dorchester on the West side of Mains Street. For what its worth Dorchester is already a pretty cheap place to live compared to small towns closer to Lincoln and Omaha. If all you care about is how cheap you can live, get a trailer in the country. If you want to see what "cheap living" does for a community, drive through Clatonia which has sadly turned into a cow chip of a town. If my parents generation (I'm 40) would have passed the street issue long ago, think how much money we would have saved on maintainer costs, gravel, car wear and tear. Heck anonymous --- you might even be able to quit whining about the new school improvements. Instead my generation and those younger are going to have to get the heavy lifting done if we are to grow as a community.
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