Dorchester Times: NEWS BRIEFS: DHS Takes Second In D-Club Wresting Invite

Monday, December 22, 2008

NEWS BRIEFS: DHS Takes Second In D-Club Wresting Invite

DHS No. 2 In D-Club Invite: Despite wind chill temperatures around twenty below zero, the D-Club Round Robin Wrestling Invite was held in Dorchester on Saturday. Of the 11 squads competing, DHS finished finished second only to powerhouse East Butler, which had 138 points in team scoring to Dorchester's 98. DHS topped third-place Weeping Water and fourth-place Friend. Other teams competing were Humboldt-Table Rock-Steinauer/Pawnee City; Sutton; Meridian; Heartland; South Central; McCool Junction; and Tri County. Russel Barark was the Longhorns' lone gold medal winner, grabbing the top spot in the 215 lb. class. DHS Athletic Director expressed his "sincere thanks" to those who helped with the tournament. Pohl noted that "many students, alumni, parents, family members, and district patrons volunteered their time and expertise to help make the tournament successful." "The efforts of everyone involved proves what a great community Dorchester is," Pohl said.

Dec. 23 Basketball Games Postponed: Tuesday's DHS boys and girls basketball games at Sterling have been rescheduled for Thursday, Jan. 8,2009, due to Sterling canceling school because of icy conditions in the area. Also, no make-up date has yet been announced for last Thursday's (Dec. 18) postponed contests at home against Shickley. Stay tuned to the Times for details.

Two Dorchester Scholars Earn UNL Degrees: Two Dorchester scholars were among those who received degrees from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on Saturday, where U.S. Sen.-elect Mike Johanns delivered the commencement address. Earning her B.S. in chemical engineering was Tisha Amber Roth, while John Adam Havlat received his B.S. in Agribusiness. Our congratulations to both of these hard working students.

Schweitzers Welcome New Daughter: The Schweitzers will celebrate the holidays with a new member of the family this year. Kelli (Chrastil) and Shane Schweitzer of Dorchester became proud parents of a baby girl on Friday, Dec. 19, at BryanLGH East. (UPDATE 12/23: A reader has informed us the Schweitzer baby was delivered last Friday, not Wednesday as previously reported.)

2 comments:

AnonymousDecember 23, 2008 at 11:18 PM
I think the b-ball teams will actually benefit by having these games postponed. I've always believed the pre-New Years games are like a pre-season. The players seem to learn & retain more from the January/February games.
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AnonymousMarch 25, 2009 at 12:14 PM
Go Schweitzer's! You rock dudes!
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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."