Dorchester Times: NEWS ROUND-UP: Vaccine Registry Open For Residents 65 And Older

Sunday, February 7, 2021

NEWS ROUND-UP: Vaccine Registry Open For Residents 65 And Older

Here's How To Get On The COVID-19 Vaccine Waiting List: Are you 65 or older and want to get your COVID-19 vaccination shot? Nebraska's Department of Health and Human Services has created this COVID-19 Vaccine Registration Portal, where you can get your name on the waiting list. Meanwhile, the COVID-19 risk meter for Dorchester and the surrounding area has dropped to "moderate" (yellow). The Dorchester Public School risk meter is also at the yellow level.

This Winter is Seventh Snowiest on Record (So Far): 10/11 Weather reports that our area has seen around 4.5" of snow today (Sunday) -- making for around 10" for the two day total. That takes the area's seasonal snow total to 43.1" -- the most snow the Lincoln area has ever received through today's date -- and the winter of 2020-21 is now up to the seventh snowiest season on record.

Dorchester Legion Serving Lunch This Valentine's Day: From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., the Dorchester American Legion will welcome lovebirds (and everyone else) on Valentine's Day, which is Sunday, Feb. 14. The Legion will be serving up Windsor loin pork chops, scalloped potatoes, dinner roll, salad, and a flower for the ladies. $14.95 a dinner. Drink specials will be served until 5 p.m. Profits will support the Legion. (You can RSVP at the Legion's Facebook page.)

DHS Girls Shoot to Win Two-Thirds of Season's Games: After an unexpected early exist from the CRC Tourney on Jan. 23, the DHS girls basketball team has won its last four contests. This week, the Lady Longhorns whipped up on Parkview Christian, Nebraska Lutheran and Giltner, easily beating all three teams. This week will bring the final two games of the regular season. DHS, now 12-7, would go 0.667 on their 2020-21 campaign by winning the last two games. But they will have to work hard on the road to achieve this feat. On Tuesday, DHS will face 8-10 Hampton. On Thursday, DHS will take on 12-6 McCool Junction.

Dorchester Boys Look to Cap Season With Big Wins: The DHS boys basketball team was able to pull of a close contest with High Plains Community on Jan. 28, winning the road contest 41-40. But since then, the Longhorns have dropped three in a row to set at 4-14 on the year. The boys will travel to Hampton (3-15) this Tuesday, and to McCool (13-5) this Thursday. The final regular season contest for DHS will be at home on Feb. 19 against Exeter-Milligan (6-13).

Our Take on Ben Sasse: U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse, whose finger wagging and smugness would shame even Barack Obama in his prime, has unloaded on Nebraska Republicans -- by video, of course. Sasse, who has spent more time writing books in D.C. than working on legislation, warned that his party must choose between “conservatism and madness.” He also dismissed his critics as being as “angry about life.” Meanwhile, the pious lawmaker offered no similar sermon to the radical left. No mention of the left-wing's obsession with "critical race theory," job-killing climate justice, government-controlled wealth redistribution, crashing the U.S. monetary system, attacks on personal liberties, censorship via big tech and big media, selling out to global elites, or abandoning efforts to curtail China and Iran. Actually, it's Sasse who needs to choose. It's one thing for Sasse to dislike Donald Trump's personality; it's another thing for him to oppose Trump's policies, which worked well, all while giving the other side a pass. The Constitution says Sasse gets a six-year term following his election, but we believe it will be difficult for him to govern if his constituents continue losing faith en masse -- no matter how much campaign cash and media coverage the D.C. crowd gives him.

3 comments:

Terry G.February 8, 2021 at 12:08 PM
Your comments on Sasse are right on.
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AnonymousFebruary 13, 2021 at 9:51 PM
Senator Bens always disappoint. Want to get back at Benny Sasse? Ignore him. He lives for attention, whether selling Runzas at Memorial Stadium or giving interviews to CNN. Don't show up at his town halls, don't attend events he's speaking at, don't give him the time of day. That's how you get back and get even. It will eat him alive. He just wants to be relevant, which he is not.
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AnonymousFebruary 14, 2021 at 10:20 AM
Sasse, flush him down the drain. How can he show such disrespict for Trump, the greatest president the country has ever had. I hope Trump starts his own party. Dems and replubicans, who needs them. We need someone who stands for those of us who have the same vision as Mr.Trump.
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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."