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.”...
Isabel Smith, Associate Editor
October 2, 2024 • No Comments
Chester Public Library director, Kira Browning, visited our CHS Creative Writing circle last week to record some audio books for Halloween. While Ms. Browning was here, she taught the students all about the online program,...
Isabel Smith, Associate Editor
October 2, 2024 • No Comments
Since 2021, the CHS Creative Writing Circle led by Miss Rana Hodge has been seen as an informal extracurricular for students. Students can join this circle to continue to work on their writing, share it with others, and even...
The Chester Yellow Jackets have improved their record to 7-0 after a very dominant win at Dupo with the score being 48-14. The offense came out scoring in their first three drives, this started with a 65-yard bomb from Quarter...
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...
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....
Seven students traveled to Southwestern Illinois College in Granite City on Friday October 4th, to participate in Manufacturing Day. On arrival,...
Senora Zeiger’s classes brought in homemade food or drinks to celebrate Spanish week Friday, Sept. 12. The assignment was only for extra credit,...
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...
Meet Pepper, Ms. Holly’s dog. Pepper was adopted from the human society in Cape. She is a terrier mix. They also think there is a bit...
This is Kitty, Raven's cat. She is the silliest cat Raven knows. She is very cuddly to her, but to everyone else, she is vicious. She likes...