Dorchester Times: Monday's Town Board Meeting Will Address Dorchester's Trash Service

Sunday, November 5, 2017

Monday's Town Board Meeting Will Address Dorchester's Trash Service

Is it time for the Village of Dorchester to include trash pick-up as part of its utility service?

On Monday, November 6, at 7 p.m., the Dorchester Village Board will hold its monthly meeting at the fire hall.

As part of the meeting, there will be a public forum to discuss a proposal to make trash pickup mandatory at every residence in town.

Currently, Dorchester residents have few options regarding trash pickup, with most residents in the village using Waste Connections of Nebraska. Those who go with Waste Connections typically pay around $20 to $25 in monthly fees.

Some say a village-wide mandatory service would lower the cost of trash service, while also helping to ensure trash doesn't build up outside certain homes.

According to public information, if the Village Board idea is approved, households would pay for the trash service as a line-item on their monthly utility bill, along with electrical, water and sewage services.

At Monday's board meeting, taxpayers of Dorchester will be allowed to state their position on the trash pick-up plan. Those speaking will need to state their names and addresses for the public record, and will have three minutes to give their opinion on the matter.

For information on the meeting, click here.

12 comments:

AnonymousNovember 1, 2017 at 11:31 AM
Uribe does not serve this area anymore.
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AnonymousNovember 1, 2017 at 11:36 AM
Uribe does not serve this area anymore.
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cynical richardNovember 1, 2017 at 2:08 PM
..............my trash magically disappears .......................... every week ............................. in my neighbors ditch ...................
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AnonymousNovember 1, 2017 at 9:30 PM
Waste connections bought out Uribe's contract, keeping everyone's price the same...for now. Waiting for a year when their prices will magically go up again. :/ Ron's/Van Busch also does trash here too
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AnonymousNovember 2, 2017 at 6:13 AM
NO GARBAGE TAX, TOWN BOARD DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE LEFT EUROPE IN THE LATE 30'S
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AnonymousNovember 4, 2017 at 3:17 PM
Just wait and see where prices go if they do this and there’s no competition from other companies. The price will be through the roof within a year.
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AnonymousNovember 4, 2017 at 7:54 PM
Bring back burn barrels.
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AnonymousNovember 6, 2017 at 9:04 AM
If the price is what I'm paying now I'm ok with it. Why should only five people vote for this and other stuff in this village, let the people of this village vote for it and other stuff in this village if it passes or not at least the people had a say

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AnonymousNovember 6, 2017 at 1:37 PM
Put trash contracts out for bids, just like you would employee health/dental/vision insurance.
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AnonymousNovember 7, 2017 at 11:09 AM
I hope Waste Connections gets the bid!! They are big supporters for many of Saline County's Youths!!
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AnonymousNovember 7, 2017 at 8:35 PM
We already have a flat rate for water no matter what we use. Now we have to pay for trash disposal whether we use it or not. Stop making rules just for the sake of making them. Start concentrating on things that will bring people to town instead of adding fees that drive people away.
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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."