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Winter Final Exams Schedule
Kindness Week
Red Ribbon Week
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E-Sports Sign Up
E-Sports Sign Up
Liam Holland, Sting Reporter • January 15, 2025

Do you enjoy playing video games? Do you want to play games on a competitive level for your school? Join the Chester E-Sports Team! For this session we will play Overwatch 2, Apex, and Call of Duty Black Ops 6. The...

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Senior Football Player's Impact Project
Senior Football Player’s Impact Project
December 16, 2024

This year's senior football players came up with the idea of an impact project. Each player got to pick one person who made an impact on their...

The 3 Drum Majors Giving Mr. Colonel His Gift
CHS Music Department Holds Annual Christmas Concert
Elizabeth Wilson, Editor • December 16, 2024

On Monday, December 9 at 6:30 P.M., the Chester High School Music Department held their annual Christmas Concert in Colbert Gym. The three music...

Cartoon by Chelse Mathis on the Propel Ban
Snacks Ban Lifted
Hannah Stueve, Sting Reporter • November 15, 2023

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...

Mothman Graduates
Mothman Graduates
May 9, 2023

cartoon by Julia Nicole Venus
Nightmare Zoo
Julia Nicole Venus, Sting Reporter • May 5, 2023

World Teacher’s Day

World Teacher’s Day

October 4, 2024

Each year, World Teachers Day falls around the beginning of the school year or the start of a new semester....

Senior To Senior

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

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...

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Here is Peanut!
Pet of the Week – Peanut
Hannah Hoskin, Sting Reporter • January 14, 2025

Peanut is freshman Alyssa Stehl's  Shih-Tzu. Peanut is around the age of five. Peanut enjoys rolling around in the grass and loves to cuddle up and sleep with the closest person he can find. He...

Traveller by Chris Stapleton
Albums of the Week #17
December 15, 2024
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CHS Senior Gets His Poem Published
CHS Senior Gets His Poem Published
Elizabeth Wilson, Editor • January 16, 2025

CHS Senior Nico DeGuzman had his poem titled "Saltwater" get published on Elan, an international student literacy magazine. The poem can be found...

Everything White
Everything White
Mason Ward December 17, 2024

Everything White Snowflakes fall, Stars in the ol’ sky, Like a chandelier, in the hall. The cold shall pry, Seeking to drain the warmth...

Cold Death Brings New Life
Cold Death Brings New Life
Jason Sibley December 17, 2024

Cold Death Brings New Life The leaves turn orange then red then dead. The bark hardens on the tree and is chopped to bits and is set on...

Love and The Arsonist
Love and The Arsonist
Revolution Chaput December 2, 2024

Skin a squamous knowing against me, I slide off of you, dragged back like the carcass at your lips, The embers falling downwards There was...

Poem of the Month Winners for November
Poem of the Month Winners for November
December 2, 2024

Congratulations to the November winners of Poem of the Month. First place was "Gravitude" By Rana Hodge, Second Place "Love and Arsonist" by...

Graveyard
Graveyard
Aaliyah Berkbuegler October 15, 2024

Throughout the graveyard, silence fills. Sounds of the past leave us with chills. Under the moonlight, shadows are creeping. Some may say...

Purgatory
Purgatory
Jason Sibley October 15, 2024

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 3 Drum Majors Giving Mr. Colonel His Gift
CHS Music Department Holds Annual Christmas Concert
Elizabeth Wilson, Editor • December 16, 2024

On Monday, December 9 at 6:30 P.M., the Chester High School Music Department held their annual Christmas Concert in Colbert Gym. The three music...

Jess Stumpe, Annah Helvey, Maggie Caby, and Riley Lochhead
Mrs. Appel’s Food’s Class – Food Trucks
Annah Helveyahring, Sting Reporter • December 11, 2024

Throughout the month of November, Mrs. Appel’s food class has been working on a Food Truck project. Every group was given the same prompt:...

Here is Peanut!
Pet of the Week – Peanut
Hannah Hoskin, Sting Reporter • January 14, 2025

Peanut is freshman Alyssa Stehl's  Shih-Tzu. Peanut is around the age of five. Peanut enjoys rolling around in the grass and loves to...

Cleo
Pet of the Week – Lasagna & Cleo
Hannah Hoskin, Sting Reporter • November 3, 2024

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...

Pet of the Week - Mr. Mister
Pet of the Week – Mr. Mister
Hannah Hoskin, Sting Reporter • October 28, 2024

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...

Ms. Renfroe's dog, Kaylee
Pet of the Week – Kaylee
Hannah Hoskin, Sting Reporter • October 16, 2024

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...