Dorchester Times: DHS Sports Preview, Time Capsule Dedication Set For Aug. 28

Monday, August 10, 2009

DHS Sports Preview, Time Capsule Dedication Set For Aug. 28

The fall sports season is almost here. That is good news for Longhorn fans. To whet

the appetites of DHS fans, the annual Dorchester Fall Sports Preview will be held Friday, Aug. 28. Several events are planned for the evening, beginning with the insertion of the time capsule into the school bell monument at 5:30 p.m.

According to Dorchester Activities Director Scott Pohl, plans are also being made for a possible "name it-claim it" event that will enable school district patrons to purchase school equipment that is no longer being used.

The 2009 volleyball team will be presented to the public at 6:30 p.m. and may include an intra-squad scrimmage. The DHS Booster Club will be accepting members for the 2009-2010 school year, as well as selling hamburger meals from the outdoor concession stand beginning at 7:15 p.m.

The presentation and scrimmage of the 2009 Longhorn football team will take place at approximately 7:30 p.m.

3 comments:

cjAugust 11, 2009 at 5:13 PM
The ladies will go undefeated in their first 10 matches and be rated in the class d-1 top ten I predict. The boys will be much improved and will surprise many in the high school sports world thanks to the coaching talents at Dorchester.

GO HORNS.
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AnonymousAugust 12, 2009 at 9:22 AM
Its nice to see coaches who care in the current positions ... not that previous coaches didnt care but the coaches we have now go that extra effort and the players respond. Players, remember you are playing for your school and your fellow teammates at all times. Represent your school and community well. Dorchester is watching.
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AnonymousAugust 12, 2009 at 9:34 PM
such a one sided comment, and a blast to all coaches and athletes who have ever coached or played in Dorchester.

My kids went to school in Dorchester in the late eighties and i dont think there was ever a coach or player who didnt want to win, and put out extra effort.

If wins and losses are what we are looking at, the last 5 years havent been the best.

quit printing just the "pats on the back" if you are going to let people comment on the past.
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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."