Dorchester News

The Bethel Seventh Day Adventist Church will sponsor a Vacation Bible School from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. July 11 to 15 at the church.

The annual Dorchester Days celebration will be held Friday through Sunday at Dorchester.

N., Apt. 204, Minneapolis, Minn.; guilty plea; bail jumping and resisting or obstructing an officer; sentence withheld and he was placed on one year probation with conditions that he serve six days in jail and pay $501. * Keith R. Watson, 38, of 192 S. Linden St., Dorchester; guilty plea; operating a motor vehicle after a license revocation; $350 ...

Sunday, May 31, was especially meaningful to current and former members of the Salem United Methodist Church in Dorchester.

Following are the menus for area lunch programs for June 8 to June 12. All meals include milk and Nutritional Meals menus include coffee and/or milk.

DORCHESTER -- Louis R. Boxrucker, 91, of Dorchester, died Thursday, May 28, 2009, at Medford Memorial Hospital.

Raun L. Egner has graduated from basic military training at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.

A fire that rekindled Wednesday at a vacant Athens-area restaurant was started Tuesday by the property owner, who was trying to raze the building but not commit fraud, police said.

453, Marshfield; guilty plea; drunken driving and second offense operating without a license; two days in jail with work release privileges, fines and costs totaling $1,090, driver's license revoked eight months and he is to attend an alcohol assessment.

Fearing power outages, empty grocery store shelves and food distribution chaos, many Americans are stocking up on canning gear and planting apocalyptic vegetable gardens with potatoes, cabbage, beans, carrots -- anything that will keep through the winter of 2000.

Shelley K. Solberg, a senior at Colby High School and daughter of Bill and Pam Solberg of Dorchester; Pvt.

WISCONSIN RAPIDS -- Sixty-eight public libraries in central and northern Wisconsin will receive more than $382,000 from the Mead Witter Foundation as the result of a recent grant program.

Dairying in Wisconsin is big business -- very big business. Not only are there 13,274 individually owned family farms that are home to 1.25 million milking cows, there are thousands of agri-dairy marketers who provide goods and services to the industry of producing milk.

HOPKINS, Minn. -- Robert W. Bogaard, 87, of Hopkins, Minn., formerly Abbotsford, died April 29, 2009.

Weyerhaeuser union voted 2 to 1 in favor of a new four-year contract that includes a 3 percent pay increase per year.

* Julie Zamora Aquilera, 27, of Dorchester; driving after license revocation and speeding; fines totaling $410. * Jamis D. Anderson, 33, of N16210 Abbott Ave., Thorp; no contest plea; drunken driving; $665 fine, driver's license revoked for six months and he is to undergo an alcohol assessment.

* Jesus G. Agyukera-Valenzuela, 21, of 106 S. Pine St., Dorchester; no contest plea; disorderly conduct; $283 fine.

Sentence was withheld and he was placed on probation for six years for theft and three years for fraud; conditions include restitution in the amount of $52,302.14, costs totaling $844.80, and 343 days in jail.

* Traimaile D. Bullock, 32, of 301 Parkside Drive, Dorchester; no contest plea; driving after a license revocation; $350 fine.

Column: Papua New Guinea focus of Annual World Day of Prayer March 4, 2009 Many men, women and children will gather Friday in various locations to participate in the World Day of Prayer.