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The Student News Site of Yutan High School

Chieftain Times
The Student News Site of Yutan High School

Chieftain Times
Maddie Bailiff

Maddie Bailiff, Junior writer

Maddie Bailiff is a junior and in her third year of journalism.  Outside of journalism, she is involved in speech. She enjoys writing, being with family, and spending time with friends. Her favorite part of journalism is taking pictures and writing stories. 

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Eighth grader Klay Merryweather finishes his third cupcake in the cupcake eating contest. This is Merryweather’s second year doing the cupcake eating contest. “My favorite part is definitely eating the cupcakes,” Merryweather said.

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During the powderpuff football game, junior Allison Kirchmann tries to pull the flag off senior Gabi Tederman while seniors Alexis and Aubrie Pehrson try to protect her. The juniors beat the seniors in the game with a score of 12-0. “It was just a fun time to bond with our grade and playing was fun, even though it didn't go how we wanted it to,” Tederman said. “It was just a friendly little competition.”

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Sophomore Halle Arlt laughs with her Journalism classmates. Hawaiian day was one of the more popular dress up days and 80 percent of the school dressed up. “My favorite dress-up day was Hawaiian day because it's more of an easy dress up day and you can really notice when people participate,” Arlt said.

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Sophomore Aubrey Zeleny dressing up for Hawaiian day. The sophomore class got second to last place in the dress up contest.

[Photo] Dress to impress: Yutan edition

Ashtyn Anderson
November 5, 2024
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From left to right, _, Beth _, _ , Jenna Trent, Leah Thompson, Jordyn Campbell, Addi Jones, Delaney Shield, _, Addi Smith, Kylie Woster, and Molly Besch pose for a picture after a Bible study.

Softball team aims to improve team bonds, fundamental skills

Maddie Bailiff
October 8, 2024
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Senior Alexis Pehrson studies her note cards. This year, each Chieftain Time class is separated by grade level.

Chieftain Time offers expanded opportunities to meet students’ needs

Maddie Bailiff
October 8, 2024
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Senior Gavin Fenn assists at fixing a tractor tire. In Fenn’s future career as a diesel truck and tractor trailer driver he will have to learn how to fix different parts of the vehicles.

Rolling up their sleeves

Maddie Bailiff
May 6, 2024
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Seniors Haley Kube and Reagan Wilson hold up their pinkies to toast to an accomplishment. Kube and Wilson earned third place at districts, which took place at David City.

Speech team improves in numbers, success

Maddie Bailiff
March 26, 2024
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Health survey Q&A

Health survey Q&A

Maddie Bailiff
February 22, 2024
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All-school musical opens up the gates

All-school musical opens up the gates

Maddie Bailiff
February 8, 2024
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Spanish teacher Megan Widmer reviews class expectations to her Spanish 2 students. Next semester, she plans to create a more fun learning environment in her classroom.

Teacher takeover

Maddie Bailiff
December 14, 2023
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Video: The Attic’s vendors discuss their creative process

Maddie Bailiff
December 14, 2023
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Freshman Leah Thompson works to take down her Conestoga opponent. Thompson won the match #-#.

[Photo] Young girls wrestling team looks to continue streak of success

Reagan Wilson
December 14, 2023
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The Attic initially opened during Yutan Days. Some things local customers say is that it is very convenient to have The Attic here in Yutan instead of traveling to Omaha for gifts or furniture.

New Yutan business features handcrafted home goods, craft supplies

Maddie Bailiff
November 8, 2023
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Cross country team finds success in unexpected ways

Cross country team finds success in unexpected ways

Maddie Bailiff
November 8, 2023
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Superintendent Rex Pfeil answers an district related email using the computer. Pfeil states one of the first things he does in the morning is answer emails. The rest of his day consists of staff meetings or following up on tasks that need to get done in the district.

Interim superintendent aims to lead Yutan forward

Maddie Bailiff
October 3, 2023
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Sophomore Addi smith poses with her sister eighth-grader Kinsley Smith. This was their first time experiencing the ocean.

Family time well spent

Maddie Bailiff
October 3, 2023
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During the Chieftain Games, eighth-graders Ansley DeGroff and Kinsley Smith laugh while competing in the cupcake eating contest. Their team finished eight cupcakes. “It was fun,” said Smith. “You got to be competitive, plus I didn’t have my mom nagging at me to slow down in the competition.”

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Skilled and Technical Sciences teacher, Brian Fitzgerald assists a student in his Construction Trades class. Students are currently building cornhole games.

[Photo] Fitzgerald works to improve shop program

Madi Ledden
October 3, 2023
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Skylar Crews (11) played the casting director in this year's all-school play, along with Bella Silva (9) who played Rodger. During the play, there were many clever improv moments that the actors came up with. "My favorite improv moment was probably the Tinder part when they added in talking about the Tinder dates. I thought that was really funny," said Crews.

Audience entertained by bad auditions

Maddie Bailiff
May 5, 2023
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Kylie Kind-Ennis, Ella Watts, Alyssa Husing, Taylor Novak, Shaylynn Campbell, Laycee Josoff, Sophia Brennan, Alexis Polak and Kaiti Hansen pose with their state softball championship trophy. Seven of the nine seniors transferred to Yutan sophomore or junior year.

Junior transfers find a place in the Chieftain family

Maddie Bailiff
May 2, 2023
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This is a picture of the sensory room located next to Madsen's office. Students can come in this room to calm down or to decompress.

Yutan guidance counselor discusses students’ mental health struggles

Maddie Bailiff
February 28, 2023
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PSA: Don’t Litter

Maddie Bailiff and Lexi Bisaillon
February 28, 2023
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Maddie cartoon

[Photo] Living in the shadows

Reagan Wilson
February 28, 2023
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One of Anderson's favorite product to sell are gaming consoles. This Gameboy was one of the items they sold.

Buy, sell, make some extra cash

Maddie Bailiff
December 2, 2022
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After they finish decorating their house freshman Adie Gale poses with her brother Colton. The Gale family decorates their house with pumpkins, corn stalks, scarecrows and a hay bale.

Fall family fun

Maddie Bailiff
November 10, 2022
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Sophomores Rylee Kirchmann and Britney Zeleny work together to finish up math homework during Access Period. This year, Access Periods are extended by 5 minutes but are only scheduled twice a week.

Students and teachers react to new Access Period schedule

Maddie Bailiff
October 4, 2022
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