The Chester Lady Jackets beat Red Bud 44-31 Wednesday to improve to 3-0 in the Sparta Invitational. Chester plays Sesser-Valier at 7 p.m, Friday and closes its tourney...

A Veterans' Day breakfast was held Friday at Chester High school to honor area veterans. Social Studies teachers Mr. Hunter and Mr. Cowan organized the event. Members of...

Chester falls to the Maroa-Forsyth Trojans 49-12 in the second round of the IHSA Class 2A playoffs. On the first play from scrimmage, the Jackets’ offense fumbled the...

SADD sponsored Red Ribbon Week. The schedule was: Monday - Wake Up Drug Free Pajama day Tuesday - Give Drugs the Boot/Club Dress country or country club Wednesday...

The Red Cross came to CHS on Oct. 31 for a blood drive and collected 52 pints. The goal was 50 pints.  

This year CHS has welcomed many new staff members. Mr. Gardner is a new student teacher working with Mrs. Hammel. He is originally from Coulterville. Mr. Gardner is very...

During the week of Oct. 14, Mrs. Petrowske's foods class held a competition to see who could make the best decorated skull cake. After 3 laborious days of baking the cake,...

Auditions for the musical Annie were held Tuesday, Sept. 4. Melody Colonel was cast in the title role. Other majors roles were Molly, who will be played by Ariel Throop,...

A phone call was not one of my favorite alarms but that is what I woke up to that morning. Normally, I could ignore it, but the ringing was so loud I had no choice but to...