Dorchester Times: News Briefs: DHS Sending Two To State Track & Field Meet

Monday, May 12, 2008

News Briefs: DHS Sending Two To State Track & Field Meet

DHS' Lawver, Inderlied Headed To State: DHS sophomore Karmen Lawver remains among the Class D leaders in her specialty track & field events. As of last Thursday, Lawver held the state's No. 5 mark in the shot put event, with a top throw of 38-9. She holds the No. 3 spot in the discus, with a top toss of 120-9. At the D-2 District competition in Auburn last week, Lawver won the gold in both events, earning her a trip to the Nebraska State Track & Field Meet. We also congratulate DHS junior Jordan Inderlied who qualified for state in the 110 m hurdles with a second place finish at districts with a time of 16.10. The state track meet will be held this Friday and Saturday at Omaha's Burke High School.

DHS Places Sixth In State Journalism Contest: On May 5, the Nebraska School Activities Association, the Nebraska Press Association and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln held the 2008 State Journalism Championship in Andersen Hall on the UNL campus in Lincoln. The budding journalists of Dorchester finished in the sixth-place spot among Class D schools.

Eret Inducted Into UNL Biological Systems Engineering Department Hall of Fame: Longtime Dorchester resident and farmer Don Eret has been inducted into the UNL Biological Systems Engineering Department's Hall of Fame, according to the Grand Island Independent. A former state senator, Eret is a co-founder of the Supporters of the Nebraska Tractor Test Laboratory, which addresses attempts to reduce or even eliminate the mission of the Nebraska Tractor Test Laboratory. Eret helped to organized a petition drive that collected more than 1,800 signatures of people at Husker Harvest Days to support the NTTL. Biological Systems Engineering Department officials said there is little doubt that without Eret's sustained efforts, the NTTL would not be the thriving and the internationally recognized laboratory that it is today.

ICE Coming To Crete?: A reader today sent us the link to a story about an immigration raid conducted by federal agents in Postville, Iowa, at the nation’s largest kosher meatpacking plant. The ICE agents conducted a criminal search warrant for evidence relating to aggravated identity theft, fraudulent use of Social Security numbers and other crimes, while also executing a civil search warrant for people illegally in the United States. Immigration officials expected 600 to 700 arrests in the plant that employs about 1,000. In her e-mail, the reader asked: "Can we expect a similar incident in Crete?" Our response: "We would not bet against it."

8 comments:

AnonymousMay 12, 2008 at 6:41 PM
DC Husker....

Congratulations to Don Eret, a friend of my father and longtime Farmer's Union member. Also, good job to the future journalists at DHS. Maybe they’ll uncover the next Watergate!
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AnonymousMay 13, 2008 at 2:15 PM
Great news ........... the last thing the world needs is more journalists ..............
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AnonymousMay 13, 2008 at 4:58 PM
Good job to Karmen and Jordan going to State Track in Omaha Friday and Saturday. You two are champions.
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AnonymousMay 13, 2008 at 6:47 PM
Ha! You must like journalists because you read this blog. Go muckrakers!
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AnonymousMay 13, 2008 at 9:58 PM
I would pay ICE to come to Crete. Better yet, I hope $6 corn turns into $7 corn. There are so few hog farmers around any more, Farmland will have to consolidate. Then the illegals will self deport ... to another meat packing town.
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AnonymousMay 13, 2008 at 11:26 PM
I am in Arizona now.This article about the raid was in our paper.The people here say they are picking on the mexicans.Our paper pointed out they were not all from Mexico.Our law passed in january would close down this place.I hope something happens in Crete.I'm afraid to come back there.
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AnonymousMay 14, 2008 at 6:19 AM
Roseville, CA says....

I always laugh when Nebraskans get on their high moral dungeon about the immigration issue. I constantly hear, it's not about the immigrants, it's the legality issue. In other words, we don't want lawbreakers. Isn't adultery illegal or at least against the moral code of most Nebraskans? When I moved back to NE, I was bombarded by men old enough to be my father who wanted to be my "friend." Yes, they were all married. Instead of outrage, there appeared to be an unspoken code that such behavior was acceptable.
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AnonymousMay 14, 2008 at 2:59 PM
Huh?
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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."