Dorchester Times: NEWS BRIEFS: Coming Weekend Features DHS Drama, Free Concert

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

NEWS BRIEFS: Coming Weekend Features DHS Drama, Free Concert

DHS Presents Murder Mystery/Comedy This Weekend: The Times has learned that the DHS drama team will be presenting "Murder's in the Heir" this Saturday, April 24, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, April 25, at 2 p.m. Also, junior and senior high drama awards will be presented Sunday at 1:30 p.m. in the school cafeteria. All area residents are invited to come to the show and help decide who committed the murder in this mystery/comedy.

Student Council Hosting Cookout On April 30: The DHS Student Council will host a hamburger cookout for area community residents and students on Friday, April 30. There will also be a "Make A Wish" auction to follow. Hamburgers will be served beginning at 6:30 p.m. and the auction will start at 7:30 p.m. Location is the school parking lot. Proceeds will go to the "Make A Wish" Nebraska Chapter.

Popular Band Playing At Ben's Iron Grill This Weekend: The Bill and Terry Band -- featuring members of the former band Home Grown -- will be playing at Ben's Iron Grill this Saturday, April 24, from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Country and classic rock at their best. No cover charge.

DHS Booster Club Needs $150 More To Reach Fundraising Goal: DHS Activities Director Scott Pohl thanks everyone who has graciously made a donation to help the DHS Booster Club achieve its goal of $1,000 toward the purchase of new scoreboards and wrestling mats. He writes: "We are getting close to reaching the goal but are still about $150 short. Please consider donating toward this worthwhile project before the deadline of April 30. " Pohl says that if $1,000 is donated, the Booster Club will match the $1,000. Donations may be sent to: Scott Pohl, Dorchester Public School, Box 7, Dorchester, NE 68343.

6 comments:

AnonymousApril 20, 2010 at 8:42 PM
i appreciate this kind of news a lot more than the paving stuff
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BobApril 20, 2010 at 11:30 PM
No way! This information is useful, too, but you gotta cover the controversial stuff. That is essential to community life. Otherwise, I say go live out in the country.
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Joe's DwellerApril 21, 2010 at 5:39 PM
I was hoping for a drama-free concert :(
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cynical richardApril 21, 2010 at 8:58 PM
free concert this week end in my cow pasture .......................... flatulence in the minor f will be the main tune youll hear ............................ band members are from the former band known as flatus .................. no rock or country songs here ..................... just good ol flatulence ................
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AnonymousApril 25, 2010 at 10:55 PM
The students did a great job with the play. Too bad the crowds weren't larger for both performances. Everyone would have been treated to a few good laughs and thought provoking whodunit. The directors overcame a lot of obstacles with the new timing of the play. Everything came together nicely and ovations should go to all involved. Great Job Dochester thespians!
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AnonymousMay 3, 2010 at 1:37 PM
Thanks for the nice compliment about the plays. The students did an excellent job, especially since they have been so busy the month of APRIL.

THANKS ALSO TO THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS, STAFF, AND STUDENTS THAT HELPED MAKE OUR FRIDAY NIGHT MAKE A WISH ACTIVITIES A SUCCESS. WE MADE AT LEAST $400 TOWARDS THE NE CHAPTER OF MAKE A WISH!
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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."