Dorchester Times: Community Garage Sale Weekend Is June 16-17

Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Community Garage Sale Weekend Is June 16-17

It's garage sale season!

Dorchester is once again planning its Community Garage Sale Weekend this Friday and Saturday, June 16 and 17.

If you're hosting a garage sale, contact the village office (402-946-3201) to be put on the official listing of sales in and around town.

Maps will be available now at Village Hall.

Event organizers say the garage sale weekend is the perfect opportunity for residents who want to save some money on kids' clothes and other items, and for those who need some extra income in this inflation-ridden economy spurred by federal spending over the past three years.

Be sure to get a bright and early start.

Shoppers will be out in full force.

8 comments:

cynical richardMay 17, 2009 at 1:35 PM
some of us arent so rich that we can go to garage sales .............................. some of us cant even afford garages .................................
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AnonymousMay 17, 2009 at 4:17 PM
To cynical richard:
Your wife should put a for sale sign on you -- except she may have to pay someone else to take you off her hands!
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AnonymousMay 17, 2009 at 10:53 PM
OMG Cynical Richard!!!!!
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BobMay 18, 2009 at 9:11 AM
Good ol' Dick, always can count on him for an outrageous statement or two. He's worth the price of a subscription to the times.

You get what you pay for.
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AnonymousMay 18, 2009 at 10:46 AM
I am so glad comments are back. How would I get my daily giggles in, if not for the humor of Cynical Richard???? You just gotta love him!
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AnonymousMay 18, 2009 at 11:33 AM
Cynical ROCKS!
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AnonymousMay 21, 2009 at 11:22 AM
Hey Cynical richard.. maybe you should host a garage sale instead of always buying junk at those actions.. By looking at your place you need to clean up a little as well.. Just a thought...
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AnonymousJune 16, 2023 at 9:21 AM
Hey! Decided last minute to have a garage sale this weekend too and didn’t get on the official listing. Please stop by 1477 County Road DD. Most items are back by the barn. Hope to see you soon! -Connie
Please let me know if I need to pay a fee to post this on this site. Thank you!
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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."