Dorchester Times: NEWS BRIEFS: DHS Dropping To Class D2 Next School Year

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

NEWS BRIEFS: DHS Dropping To Class D2 Next School Year

DHS Dropping To Class D2: According to an e-mail from a school insider, Dorchester High School will be dropping from Class D1 to Class D2 in athletic activities for the next two school years. It will not be the first time DHS has been in Class D2 since the early 1990s. The change was approved by the Nebraska School Activities Association at the organization's autumn meeting. Joining DHS in the switch to class D2 is Pawnee City, Bertrand, Creek Valley, Silver Lake, Exeter-Milligan, Humphrey, Howells, Meridian, Amherst, Wilcox-Hildreth, Mead, Eustis-Farnam, Wauneta-Palisade, Giltner, Clarkson, Leyton, Medicine Valley.

Longhorns Honored By World-Herald: DHS senior Adam Kahle has been named to the Omaha World-Herald's Nebraska high school football all-class honorable mention selections. In volleyball, DHS' Karmen Lawver, Charity Springer, and Melinda Havlat were all named to the World-Herald's honor roll. Our congratulations to all these Longhorn athletes.

Pot Use Up Among U.S. Teens: A wire story reports more teens nationwide are smoking pot, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. About 21% of U.S. 12-graders and 16% of 10-graders said they have used marijuana within the past month. The institute says the increase is due mostly to lax attitudes and the perception that pot is not dangerous. Meanwhile, thousands of police officers, innocent children in tough neighborhoods, family members, and others have been killed this year at the hands of drug dealers and cartels. We wonder if the teens who use drugs -- mostly middle and upper-class white kids -- or any of their parents would be willing to face the relatives of the victims who were killed thanks to their purchase of pot and other illegal drugs? Or do they even care?

7 comments:

AnonymousDecember 16, 2009 at 3:44 PM
Anyone else remember when the BIG D was playing Class B schools like Tri County and Milford back in the day ... and kicking their tails?
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UnknownDecember 16, 2009 at 9:37 PM
I do remember! Back in the '80s we ruled!
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WolverineDecember 17, 2009 at 9:52 AM
Tri-County and Milford were Class C schools. Crete was Class B.
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AnonymousDecember 17, 2009 at 11:25 AM
Close the yearbook
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AnonymousDecember 17, 2009 at 4:38 PM
Wrong, Wolverine. I promise you Milford was Class B for at least a year back in the 80s. Think same is true for TriCounty.
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AnonymousDecember 17, 2009 at 6:10 PM
Rather than pining about the good old days...What are we going to do about now? I've been told by someone at the school that rising city has canceled girls basketball this year and is doing sports with david city next year.
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cynical richardDecember 17, 2009 at 6:36 PM
you know what this means????........................
...........the terriers are toast!................................................
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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."