by: Donavin Neugebauer and Zach Renville Last night’s battle for the top girls’ basketball team in Rapid City ended as a heartbreak for the Cobbler girls. The Raiders came out on top, making a big impact on the Central fans. The Central Cobblers (9-11) hosted the Stevens Raiders (9-9) at Naaz gymnasium, and while Stevens fired quick, starting the game on a 10-0 run, Central … Continue reading Cobbler Girls Drop Close One to Raiders
By Andrea Renville, Nicole Krebs, and Amanda Thomson With preregistration at our door steps, one may be asking one’s self, “What classes should I take?” This is a rather important question, because, after all, one would not want spend their sophomore, junior, or senior year in classes with no flavor. Now you are probably asking, “What would you recommend?” We went to a slew of … Continue reading Students Face Preregistration – Here are some classes to consider!
by: Jacob Sperlich (with Mrs. Sperlich and Ms. Heaton) To kick off the opening of the 9th grade wing, the science department sponsored a raffle to help equip the new science classrooms. CHS science sends a huge Thank You to Jostens, the company that sells class rings & graduation announcements, for donating the framed Terry Redlin print titled “An Evening with Friends.” During the first … Continue reading Science Funds for Fun Totals $3400
by: Andrea Renville and Nicole Krebs This past weekend the Central High School theatre department took 31 students to Aberdeen, South Dakota to perform their original one act Dublin: the Legend of Dagda. Each year CHS Theatre takes a one act play to the State One Act Play Festival. This festival features shows from all across South Dakota, including Sioux Falls O’Gorman and Rapid City … Continue reading Drama Club Declared Superior at Festival
by: Sean Lamke As 1st grade students poured into the new, upstairs science department, Mrs. Rasmussen’ Meteorology class could feel the energy radiating from the children. Both sets of students from the first graders to the high school seniors anticipated a wonderful time learning about the weather. The next hour held a variety of informational entertainment for the children that the Meteorology class had prepared. … Continue reading Meteorology Class Hosts Weather Fair
Have you needed to find a parking place this week? Good luck! The stock show is in town, and students are happy to blame any tardies on the cowboys across the street, though the real parking problems were during the Evening of One Acts, which took place at night when the parking gets truly tricky over at the Civic Center. The stock show does tend … Continue reading Weekly Roundup: Raider & Cobbler Fans, One Acts, & the Stock Show
by: Andrea Renville and Nicole Krebs Starting in early February, the Rapid City Area Schools Food Service will begin providing students with new breakfast selections. Janelle Peterson, M.Ed Food Service Supervisor, informed the teachers of both Central High and Stevens High School that there will be healthier breakfast options for the high schools of RCAS. They will be offering more protein such as eggs and … Continue reading New Breakfast Choices in February
Attention Juniors and Seniors: want to win two tickets to prom? Submit a poster design to Mrs. Mueller in room C228 for the 2012 Prom, “A Sweet Escape” by Friday, January 27th and you could win those tickets. Voting will be done through the CHS Pine Needle on January 30th though February 2nd. The poster you design should depict the image of an escape to … Continue reading Design a Poster and Win Two Tickets to Prom
Did you have to go to the main office at all this week? Do you even know where the main office is? The environment was a study in contrasts, with the office full of wandering staff just checking things out, construction workers busily attending to building details, and harried secretaries trying to impose order on the chaos. It appeared to be most intense for the … Continue reading Roundup: Construction woes
by: Wyatt Garlick Mr. Talley says he will be joining another intramural basketball team this January and has made some confident predictions: “I took a year off last year but will be back playing this winter for the staff team. With my return and the addition of some other staff ‘All-Stars’ we are guaranteed to once again take the intramural title. A lot of our … Continue reading Deadline for Intramural Basketball Approaching
Have you ever had trouble putting statistics into perspective? It’s a tricky thing to do, but this week The Pine Needle ran a story about the Anatomy & Physiology classes’ blood drive, which gathered 215 pints of blood. How much is 215 pints? Well, it’s 26.9 gallons. That would definitely require more than your fridge to hold. If you were to take all that blood … Continue reading Roundup: Chamber Orchestra, Prom Theme, an Acting Recital, and more
by: Kyle Wehrle The blood drive for Central was a HUGE success! Mrs. Linde’s Anatomy & Physiology classes were in a competition to see who could get the most donors and donations from businesses. Our goal for blood donations was 200 pints of blood, but we received a total of 215 pints! Over 40 local businesses donated food, napkins, plates, drinks, and money to help … Continue reading Blood Drive Exceeds Expectations
by: Chase Hammond One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Central High School Theatre Department’s fall production, opened Thursday, November 17th to a packed house. As the audience arrived to the theater they immediately felt a sense of repression and hopelessness, just by looking at the set. As the lights dimmed, the play began with a recording of a speech by John F. Kennedy. Slowly the … Continue reading Cuckoo Provides Specktaculore Performances
by: Chase Hammond It has been almost 20 years since Central High School has had a Native American in a lead role for a drama production. That could be considered a bit of a dry spell. Micah Roubideaux has ended that drought; Roubideaux auditioned in October for the fall show, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, and was cast in the role … Continue reading Native American Leads Cast in Drama Production
At a recent staff meeting Ms. Bauer was selected teacher of the month for Central High School. Ms. Bauer is a very proud Cobbler – who is here, there and everywhere for students whenever and where ever she needs to be. This year, Ms. Bauer is teaching Senior Composition, Mythology and Symbolism, and English 10. Her classes fill up quite quickly, as she is an … Continue reading Ms. Bauer Selected Teacher of the Month
by: Karley Perez with photo by Brianna Cummins Stevie Wonder fans have been enjoying great performances by the Central High School Cobbler Band. The Marching band has been playing “You Are the Sunshine of my Life,” “Don’t You Worry About a Thing,” “Sir Duke,” and “Isn’t She Lovely” at the Central home football games, and the full band played those songs last night at the … Continue reading Marching Band Finishes Wonder-ful Season
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