A night to remember

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May 5, 2010 • Kimmie Tabor, Reporter  
Filed under Events, School News, Top Stories

It was a beautiful Saturday; however, during the first part of the day, the beauty went unnoticed as the majority of the upperclassmen, or at least the female portion, of Chugiak High School were busy getting ready for the 2010 Prom. The theme this year was Romance in the City. It was held at... Read more »

The student worker

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April 26, 2010 • Vincent Calderone, Guest Contributor  
Filed under Human Interest, Opinion

Working a part time job and attending college full time is, “stressful sometimes, but it’s mainly time management,” says UAA student and Starbucks employee Carol Wintters.  “What you need to do and what you want to do are often not in sync.  With me, school obviously comes first, then my job.” For... Read more »

Chugiak’s first annual battle of the bands rocks out for a good cause

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April 22, 2010 • Meg Mielke, Editor  
Filed under School News, Top Stories

On Saturday, April 3. 2010, Chugiak High School presented its first annual Battle of the Bands competition.  Four bands consisting of Mustangs and non-Mustangs competed in the event to prove which band held musical superiority.  The three judges for the event were choir director Ron Lange, science... Read more »

2010 JROTC Service Air Rifle Championships

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March 29, 2010  
Filed under Marvelous Mustangs

Congratulations to the cadets, parents and school administration for making this event a lifetime experience and a success for our JROTC Rifle Team.  The two day championship match took place in Anniston, Alabama from March 25-27.  Our Team consisting of Matthew Martin, Jimmy Zaken, James Klepzig and... Read more »

Chugiak DDF team: 2010 state champions

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March 18, 2010  
Filed under Marvelous Mustangs, Top Stories

The Chugiak Drama, Debate and Forensics team received first place in the 4A schools dvision at the state tournament on March 4, 5 and 6 by winning first place in both debate and forensics sweeps. Individual results from the state tournament: Paul Gabrys: 3rd in Policy Debate, 1st in Pantomime, 2nd in... Read more »

GenYES program allows students to teach teachers

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March 15, 2010 • Meg Mielke, Editor  
Filed under Academics, Top Stories

A new program at Chugiak High School is reaffirming the value of community, and the give-and-take relationship that should exist between students and teachers, especially in the area of problem solving.  Generation Yes or GenYES is a program designed to funnel student knowledge and experience regarding... Read more »

CHS student wins Spirit of Youth Community Scholarship

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March 15, 2010 • Meg Mielke, Editor  
Filed under Academics, Human Interest

Out of the two students winning the Prudential Spirit of the Community Scholarship in the state of Alaska, one of them is a senior at Chugiak High School. Esther Smith was selected, after being nominated by Chugiak High (via Candi Dixon of the career resource center), from a pool of other Alaskan... Read more »

Chugiak’s NJROTC riflery team qualifies for national championships

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February 24, 2010 • Meg Mielke, Editor  
Filed under Activities

The Chugiak NJROTC riflery team–consisting of team captain and junior Matthew Martin, senior Jimmy “Iceman” Zaken, senior James “Lil One” Klepzig and junior Alan Mulcahy–just returned from the Secretary of the Navy Three Position Air Rifle Shoulder-to-Shoulder Championship in... Read more »

Battle of the books team earns 5th at district competition

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February 16, 2010 • Meg Mielke, Editor  
Filed under Activities

On Thursday, February 4, the Chugiak High School Battle of the Books team competed at the district-wide competition.  After battling 11 teams representing different schools in the Anchorage School District, the Mustangs came in 5th place.  While some members who were on the team last year felt... Read more »

WACKO: 2010

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February 16, 2010 • Kimmie Tabor, Reporter  
Filed under Events

WACKO: WACKO stands for “Wild And Crazy Kid Olympics.” And for the past two years the class of 2010 has dominated the WACKO games. Now that the Class of 2010 is graduating they wanted to end the year with a bang. Their goal was to win the WACKO games for the third consecutive year, and pull... Read more »

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