Dorchester Times: NEWS BRIEFS: DHS Students Earn Basketball, Academic Honors

Thursday, April 2, 2009

NEWS BRIEFS: DHS Students Earn Basketball, Academic Honors

Walton, Zoubek Establish New DHS Records: The Omaha World-Herald reports that DHS junior Alex Walton led all Nebraska boys basketball players, regardless of class, in blocked shots for the 2008-09 season. Walton blocked a record 85 shots this year. The second-highest tally of the season was 42 blocked shots by Columbus Scotus player. The Times has also learned that Longhorn junior Brandon Zoubek set a new DHS record for the highest percentage of free throws made. Zoubek made 84% of his shots from the charity stripe this season, improving upon the mark of Craig Slepicka, who made 81.5% of his free throws in the 1985 season. The staff at the Times sends our congratulations to both Longhorn players.
Five DHS Students Place At Hastings Academic Competition: Nine students from Dorchester attended ACTIONS Day academic competition at Central Community College in Hastings on March 26. There were 27 schools and nearly 1,000 students competing in 32 different content areas. DHS students who attended were: Ashton Kotas, Amy Havlat, Erica Spanyers, Adam Kahle, Spencer Kotas, Jessica Hansen, Megan Carroll, Brandon Schwisow and Jacy Hewitt. Those earning trophies were: Aston Kotas, first place in Sequences; Spencer Kotas, second in General Math and second in Algebra I; Adam Kahle, fourth in Algebra I; Jessica Hansen, fourth in English II and fifth in Geometry; and Jacy Hewit, fifth in Health. We tip our DHS hats to these fine Longhorn scholars.

11 comments:

AnonymousApril 3, 2009 at 1:43 PM
Congratulations to all.
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cynical richardApril 3, 2009 at 2:34 PM
yeah but can any of these kids cut thistle from my pasture .....................
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AnonymousApril 3, 2009 at 3:16 PM
cut your own thistles they probably would not do the job right in your eyes......
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AnonymousApril 4, 2009 at 4:36 PM
i dont know who cynical richard is but im pretty sure these kids worked hard for what they did and they probably wouldnt want to work for you anyway
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AnonymousApril 6, 2009 at 11:06 AM
My God People! We have two young kids who have made great accomplishments and this is what you want to comment about? Have you ever heard the phrase, "If you don't have anything nice to say then don't say anything at all"? Congratulations to both of these gentlemen for working hard to achieve these accomplishments. I for one am very proud of both of you.
Christine
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AnonymousApril 6, 2009 at 11:34 AM
ill cut your thistles old man
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AnonymousApril 6, 2009 at 11:44 AM
Hopefully these kids won't need to be cutting any thistles because they will be too smart for that. Congratulations goes out to Dorchester High School students for their athletic and academic honors!
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AnonymousApril 7, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Growing up on a farm and cutting thistles and then getting a college education, I learned a lot from that and never thought to smart not to do it. Maybe cutting thistles would give students the idea that everything takes hard work and doing your job the best possible is the smart thing to do
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AnonymousApril 10, 2009 at 9:13 AM
Why hasn't anything been said about Jessica Hansen making nationals in FBLA? Awesome accomplishment I'd say!
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Village DwellerApril 10, 2009 at 10:42 AM
'Anonymous (9:13 a.m.)'

Do us a favor and send us the details at dorchester.times@gmail.com.

Thank you.
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AnonymousApril 10, 2009 at 10:39 PM
I don't know the details, I've only heard rumors stating this. I was hoping this blog could find out the facts and then let the community know about this fine accomplishment.
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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."