April 16, 2025 • No Comments
The Chester District 139 held a board meeting on April 10 that covered several key issues, including teacher tenure and administrative contracts. Six high school teachers—Mr. Bryce Bainter, Mrs. Marsh Bartly, Mrs. Jackie...
Isabel Smith, Associate Editor
April 16, 2025 • No Comments
The Distinguished Yellow Jacket Award ceremony was held on April 14th, where teachers chose a student with whom they had made a connection throughout this school year to be awarded the title of a Distinguished Yellow Jacket....
Hayden Cartwright, Sting Reporter
April 14, 2025 • No Comments
The CHS Dance Team held its tryouts April 1st through the 4th. This year's tryouts consisted of a short mini routine danced to "Breakin' Dishes" by Rihanna, as well as an 8-count sideline dance to "Pon de Replay," also...
The CHS Dance Team held its tryouts April 1st through the 4th. This year's tryouts consisted of a short mini routine danced to "Breakin' Dishes" by Rihanna, as well as an 8-count sideline dance to "Pon de Replay," also...
The Chester District 139 held a board meeting on April 10 that covered several key issues, including teacher tenure and administrative contracts. Six...
CHS SADD held an assembly on April 9th, in order to bring attention to the dangers of distracted driving. During the assembly, State Trooper...
March 26, 2025
The Addams Family Musical was the show choice for the 2025 CHS Theater Department production. This musical...
Poetry Out Loud: Regional Competition
February 14, 2025
On Saturday, February 8, 2025, two CHS students competed in the Poetry Out Loud Regional competition....
The History of Martin Luther King Jr.
January 21, 2025
Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15th, 1929 to Martin Luther King Sr. and Alberta Williams...
Album #1: Bird’s Eye by Ravyn Lenae Favorite Song: One Wish (feat. Childish Gambino) Notes: "Bird's Eye" is one of the perfect albums for summer nights. I enjoyed this album so much, and I believe...
Brodie Mattingly's poem "Jerry, the Completely Normal Guy" was a hit at the CHS Writers' Circle April meeting. Judging is blind — meaning judges...
Jason Sibley is at it again with his THIRD 1st-Place win! Students in the CHS Writers' Circle selected Jason's poem "Thorns" as the winner...
Three students from Chester High School won the Chesters Public library Poetry Competition. The winners in order include Nico DeGuzman in first...
Nico DeGuzman's poem "fallen" has taken the second-place title for March's round of the CHS Poem of the Month! Nico De Guzman is an artist...
Congratulations to Jason Sibley for his second Poem of the Month win! Jason is a junior at Chester High School who is currently enrolled in Miss...
February's Poem of the Month challenge was "February Reds / February Blues." Staff, students, and alumni were invited to write about Valentine's...
This month, The CHS Writers' circle selected Nico DeGuzman's poem, "Love in the Era of Doomsday" as the poetry competition runner-up. Nico...
Mrs. Hammel’s 4th hour Novels class worked on a project, April 7th - 11th, where they could pick any book that they enjoyed to paint the cover...
Miss Hodge’s Creative Writing Class and Writers’ Circle club took a trip to SIU Carbondale on April 7th. The first stop was Morris Library...
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...
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...