Dorchester Times: Youth Baseball, Softball Sign-Up Is March 17

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Youth Baseball, Softball Sign-Up Is March 17

(CORRECTION: This event will begin at 7:30 p.m. on March 17.)

Hey kids!

Next Monday, March 17, is your chance to sign up for the Dorchester baseball and softball teams. The sign-up for both boys and girls will be at the Dorchester School cafeteria (enter on the south side) at 7:30 p.m.

Any boy ages 6-15 (15 years old on or before Dec. 31, 2014) can play Dorchester baseball.

Any girl ages 6-18 (18 years of age on or before Dec 31, 2014) are eligible to play Dorchester softball.

Fees will be due at time of registration.

12 comments:

AnonymousMarch 10, 2014 at 5:10 PM
Love watching ball at good old nerud field. Go Dorchester!!!!!
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AnonymousMarch 12, 2014 at 6:48 AM
just want to make a correction the meeting will start at 7:30 pm not 6:30.
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AnonymousMarch 12, 2014 at 11:44 PM
Check your spelling in the knapp story are you a longhorn graduate?
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AnonymousMarch 13, 2014 at 11:49 AM
Sounds like the bloggers must think physical violence is ok. Another feather in your cap.
Go bulldogs
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AnonymousMarch 16, 2014 at 6:36 PM
How on earth did an article on community youth sports spiral downward into such a cesspool of mean spiritedness? The first two comments were just fine, but what did the rest have to do with this article? What a sad commentary on our community. I really did not want to get mixed up in this mess until I read the comments from Steve. They are possibly the worst. I know plenty of folks who are either overweight, in debt, or struggle with "underperforming" children, or some combination of the three, and they don't necessarily seem any more miserable than anybody else. How dare you suggest that people with any of these conditions is miserable with life just because their lives don't fit your definition of perfection which apparently is skinny and rich with gifted children. I can't believe your psychology major suggested such a thing. I just wish we could all be a little more considerate of each other's feelings and behave in a way that is more conducive to getting along with everyone in our community. That would benefit all of us. Please.
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AnonymousMarch 17, 2014 at 10:33 AM
I wish the Times would re-install its old policy of not printing comments that are unrelated to the story, especially since many of the comments (almost all, dare I say) are from people who don't live in Dorchester. I'm tired of the antagonists who say "Go Bulldogs" or make other lowbrow comments to rile people, just as I'm tired of the back-and-forth tough talk by people who hide behind their computer and tell us how smart and happy they are. Grow up folks.

Signed,

Proud Dorchester Resident
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AnonymousMarch 18, 2014 at 8:49 AM
the blogsters dont even stand up for themsefs anymore. hahahahaha go bulldogs
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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."