Isabel Smith, Associate Editor
October 27, 2024 • No Comments
SADD has announced that there will be a Red Ribbon Week October 28th - November 1st. Monday is "Wake up drug free!" Wear your pajamas Tuesday is "Any age can be drug free!" Freshman - Babies, Sophomore - Toddlers, Junior...
October 18, 2024 • No Comments
During tonight's Football game, Just for Jackets are holding a food drive. They are asking for non-expired/nonperishable food items for the food pantry at CHS. Money donations are also acceptable. So come support...
October 15, 2024 • No Comments
The CHS Writers’ Group is pleased to announce the first-ever winners of the brand-new monthly poetry competition! The first-place winner of the Spooky Poem challenge is Aaliyah Berkbuegler. She wrote a poem titled “Graveyard.”...
The Chester Yellow Jackets defeated the Red Bud Musketeers 44-7 on Friday October 18th to become the conference champions of the Cahokia Conference. Chester started the game on defense and forced Red Bud to punt and then...
CHS principal, Mr. Blechle, announced a new ban, on Tuesday, November 7th, during 5th hour. He stated that there is no more eating or drinking...
October 4, 2024
Each year, World Teachers Day falls around the beginning of the school year or the start of a new semester....
October 3, 2024
It is easy to assume that each senior participant would agree and encourage seniors to stay motivated...
New and Improved Homecoming Week
September 13, 2024
This year’s Homecoming at CHS is unlike any other that has been done before. During Homecoming week...
Junior Elizabeth Wilson has two Guinea Pigs named Lasagna and Cleo. Lasagna is all brown with a white stomach and Cleo is brown with a white stripe and a white face. Elizabeth chose the name Lasagna...
Throughout the graveyard, silence fills. Sounds of the past leave us with chills. Under the moonlight, shadows are creeping. Some may say...
She sits, waiting, for her captors to come. She does not fight, merely accepts, powerless, hopeless. As she sits in a white room, devoid...
The CHS Creative Writers’ Circle and The Sting presents the CHS Poetry Competition! Any CHS student, faculty, admin, or alumnus can enter....
Two Chester High School students, Brooklyn Webb and Tia Martinez, won both first and second place in SWIC's annual poetry writing contest. Brooklyn...
The air trickles like a majestic waterfall Rain falling like a dancer Prancing and prancing toward the ground Forever dancing to the earth Smiles...
I used to see the world in a sunny filter Yet now it seems that it has faded It’s not the same as it used to be Everything seems...
The world spins, a carousel of life and death. An unending cycle. A newborns cry echoes in the dawn, a life ignited, a flame in the darkness....
Ms. Diercks and her SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) club held their annual SADD week from October 28 to November 1! This week held...
On October 10th seniors Rylie Conley, Jack Heffernan, and Whitney Sulser traveled to Rend Lake College to meet with Illinois State Senator of...
Junior Elizabeth Wilson has two Guinea Pigs named Lasagna and Cleo. Lasagna is all brown with a white stomach and Cleo is brown with a white...
His name is Mr. Mister. His current place of residence is a terrarium in Mr. Conley's room. He enjoys eating wax worms and digging in the...
Meet Kaylee, Ms. Renfroe’s dog. She is a 4-year-old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. She has 2 other sisters, who are 6-year-old black labs. Even...
Meet Ms. Martinez’s 4-year-old dog, Karlos. He has an unforgettable personality and loves to go everywhere with his family. He lives...