Rosalie Johnson

Student Director Zee Lee: Paying Attention to What’s Behind the Curtain

by Rosalie Johnson, Reporter, Editor-in-Chief
June 3, 2024

In the world of CK Drama’s theater program and amidst the buzz of preparing for their spring “Radium Girls” production, the new and specially-made role of student director is filled by CKHS junior...

CK Choir Hosts Annual Senior Night

by Rosalie Johnson and Sarah Dowell
May 31, 2024

*This story is a collaborative project: Rosalie Johnson wrote the article and Sarah Dowell produced the video. A dim stage, illuminated by colorful spotlights and adorned with a grand piano and a vase...

Scraps to Soil: Cougars Commence Composting

by Rosalie Johnson, Reporter, Editor-in-Chief
April 22, 2024

This story was partially published in The Cougar Chronicle's Volume 1 Issue 3 magazine. Central Kitsap High School’s Environmental Club has reincorporated composting into the student body’s daily...

Editorial: The Education of Our Students is Worth Investing In

by Cypress Cowley and Rosalie Johnson
March 28, 2024

The Central Kitsap School District’s 2024 proposed levy has failed in its first round, and $29,600,000 will go with it. In the wake of this financial depletion, students will be robbed of academic...

Cultivating Happiness and Health In Relationships at CK

by Rosalie Johnson, Reporter, Editor-in-Chief
January 31, 2024

Engaging in Relationships From “Romeo and Juliet” to “10 Things I Hate About You,” romantic relationships among teens have been topics of discussion and aspiration for time immemorial. Excitement...

Opinion: Megan Rapinoe’s Legacy is Compelling and Unfinished

by Rosalie Johnson, Reporter, Editor-in-Chief
January 8, 2024

Against the short barricade to separate fans from the game on the field stood a young kid with short bubble-gum pink hair, donning a jersey with “Rapinoe” blazoned on the back. Around 10 or 11 years...

Photo Gallery: CKHS Maze Days 2023

by Rosalie Johnson and David McClain
September 19, 2023

CKHS Opens Doors for Annual Maze Days

by Rosalie Johnson and Taylor Wells
September 19, 2023

On August 24 and 25, 2023, Central Kitsap High School welcomed its students back for the first time since it was released for summer break for the annual Maze Days. In a one-stop-shop style, CKHS...

CK Girls’ Varsity Soccer Wins League Home Opener Against North Thurston 4-0

by Rosalie Johnson, Reporter, Editor-in-Chief
September 15, 2023

Central Kitsap High School’s varsity girls’ soccer team took on North Thurston in their league home opener on September 7 with a 4-0 victory. “This is our first league game,” said head coach...

Review: “Ted Lasso” and the Goldfish Mentality

by Rosalie Johnson, Reporter, Editor-in-Chief
June 16, 2023

“Be a goldfish!” constantly rings through my mind on a particularly stressful or bad day - a reminder that the happiest creature in the world is one that forgets everything, who lives in the moment,...

CKHS Prom 2023

by Adrie Starkenburg, Executive Film Producer
June 6, 2023

Video Credits: Adrie Starkenburg, Executive Producer/Editor David McClain, Host/Film crew Rosalie Johnson, Host/Film crew Rebekah Gaines, Film crew Amanda Repine, Film Crew

Port Orchard Farmer’s Market Celebrates 45th Season

by Rosalie Johnson, Reporter, Editor-in-Chief
June 6, 2023

‘What, Like It’s Hard?’: Legally Blonde: The Musical Thrives on Opening Night

by Rosalie Johnson, Olivia Miller, and Rory Manskie
May 12, 2023

The auditorium energetically and excitedly buzzes as songs that could be found on a modern-day Elle Woods’ playlist - including Ariana Grande’s “Thank U Next” and Taylor Swift’s “The Man”...

Port Orchard Looks to Kick Off Its 45th Farmers’ Market Season

by Rosalie Johnson, Reporter, Editor-in-Chief
March 31, 2023

The city of Port Orchard is home to the annual Port Orchard Farmers’ Market, open every Saturday from the spring to the fall between April and October. This year, the Farmers’ Market is celebrating...

Oh My God, Oh My God, You Guys – ‘Legally Blonde: The Musical’ Is Over Three Weeks Into Rehearsals

by Rory Manskie and Rosalie Johnson
March 31, 2023

Central Kitsap High School’s drama team is performing a production of “Legally Blonde: The Musical” - a unique opportunity for high school theater students and high school audiences alike. Set for...

Confessions Of A Starbucks Barista

by Rosalie Johnson, Reporter, Editor-in-Chief
March 10, 2023

Starbucks, the world’s largest international coffee company, has established its role in thousands of customers’ lives as not only the go-to caffeination station but a secondary workplace or gathering...

CKHS Holds ‘Legally Blonde: The Musical’ Auditions

by Rosalie Johnson and Adrie Starkenburg
March 1, 2023

This spring, the Central Kitsap High School Drama Team will be putting on “Legally Blonde: The Musical" with the help of CKHS’s choir director Alicia Rodenko. Both CKHS’s drama teacher Zachary...

“Guys, I’m A Mandated Reporter!”: Mandated Reporting In CKSD

by Rosalie Johnson, Reporter, Editor-in-Chief
January 31, 2023

Mandated reporting is often associated with student misbehavior or misconduct frequently seen around schools, such as vaping, drug use, harassment, or skipping class. While this holds true, mandated reporting...

CKHS DECA Works Towards Personal Growth and Wins Big

by Rosalie Johnson, Reporter, Editor-in-Chief
January 28, 2023

CKHS DECA members often consider a business career following their experience, but regardless of their future career pursuits, many find the communication, confidence, and networking skills gained through DECA to be entirely beneficial.

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CKHS Girls’ Basketball Finds Victory in 1/11 Game

by Rosalie Johnson, Reporter, Editor-in-Chief
January 28, 2023

CKHS girls’ basketball, currently fifth in the 3A South Sound League, secured a decisive victory against Olympia’s sixth place Capital High School by a dominant score of 58-32 on January 11th. The...

Review: Eliza McLamb (Is Not) ‘Doing Fine’

by Rosalie Johnson, Reporter, Editor-in-Chief
January 13, 2023

McLamb’s mental and social wisdom is comforting and aspirational. Her analytical metaphors, discernment, and talent excess - both in lyricism and singing - provide listeners with a new understanding of depression experiences or a new way to explain or understand one’s own depressive struggle. Her delicate, dynamic, and commanding voice and tone is soothing to the mind and ear; McLamb and those with her skill are entirely necessary and completely welcome in modern environments in which we are all living.

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Review: Eliza McLamb’s ‘Salt Circle’

by Rosalie Johnson, Reporter, Editor-in-Chief
January 13, 2023

In true McLamb fashion, Salt Circle left me in a state of reflection and understanding; rather than finding myself in an identity crisis, I found myself considering, contemplating, and comprehending not only what McLamb sang but how its truth and beauty was also connected to my own.

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CKHS Students Protest Administrative Reaction to Oct. 20 Armed Intruder Situation

by Rosalie Johnson, Adrie Starkenburg, and Olivia Miller
October 26, 2022

On Oct. 20th, 2022, an armed 17-year-old male who does not attend CKHS entered campus with the reported intention to commit a robbery. After being apprehended by police already on campus, his weapon was...

CKHS saxophone quintet places first in state

by Rosalie Johnson, Reporter, Editor-in-Chief
June 7, 2022

The passion from the culmination of the efforts over the past two years resulted in a performance that gave them the title of first in state for a large woodwind ensemble. This victory left the quintet members with senses of pride, exhilaration and joy as they achieved this title together as a community.

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J.D. Salinger’s “Franny and Zooey”: A Review and Analysis

by Rosalie Johnson, Reporter, Editor-in-Chief
June 6, 2022

Franny and Zooey is exhausting yet forcefully intriguing, wildly fast-paced yet irresistible, saddening yet comforting - entirely unique.

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Meet Ferrah Capas, CKHS’s Class of 2024 Associated Student Body President

by Rosalie Johnson, Reporter, Editor-in-Chief
May 19, 2022

Overall, Capas describes ASB as influential to participants’ lives, considering it a “really good experience through getting involved. There are better college opportunities, and learning leadership skills and just collaborating with peers and teachers is connecting and important.”

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The OL Reign’s Journey to Higher Recognition

by Rosalie Johnson, Reporter, Editor-in-Chief
May 19, 2022

Growing up as a female soccer player meant that I had little major professional representation. At the time, there were only 8 teams within the National Women’s Soccer League (the NWSL), and those teams were poorly promoted by advertisers, companies and even the cities the NWSL teams were home to. Though this was demeaning to female athletes and detrimental to their successes, it forced me to value the representation I was provided with with all of the appreciation and love I could muster, and it further developed the sense of connection and solidarity with the female athletes.

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CKHS Students Hold “We Say Gay” Walkout

by Adrie Starkenburg, Laney Lark, and Rosalie Johnson
April 2, 2022

Protesters were not only concerned with the familial and mental health aspects of the potential damage of HB 1557, but the societal and safety implications as well. Students expressed that they should not have to worry about their safety, especially somewhere that is supposed to be a place of learning.

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Behind the Scenes of the CKHS Broadcast

by Rosalie Johnson and Bryce Gaskins
March 31, 2022

Learning how to complete new tasks such as filming, editing, and interviewing people help improve not only broadcast students’ social skills through confidence-building by reaching out to peers, but improves students’ outlook on their community and optimism for others.

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CKHS Students Hold Walkout

by Rosalie Johnson and Ellie Larsen
February 14, 2022

Around 1 p.m. on February 13 2022 an announcement of a “CKHS [Central Kitsap High School] Walkout” circulated Central Kitsap’s social media accounts. “CKHS continues to allow staff and students...

Top 6 Local Organizations to Donate to This Winter and Holiday Season

by Rosalie Johnson, Reporter, Editor-in-Chief
December 19, 2021

With the winter and holiday season upon us, needs for financial and clothing assistance arise around Kitsap County, and donations to local organizations aid in relief. Whether you’re looking to donate money, clothing, toys or food, this list has you covered.

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Why SNL’s “Clown Abortion” Skit Is So Important

by Rosalie Johnson, Reporter, Editor-in-Chief
December 7, 2021

Whether the objective was to make discussions such as these easier to hold or to amplify the effects of abortion stigmatization, Strong’s angry yet masterful take on abortion restrictions and her own experience was entirely refreshing. Her unapologetic attitude for her own abortion, pro-choice views and fury was necessary for the nation to see in an effort to understand how anti-choice legislation impacts mental and physical wellbeings.

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Mr. Chertok’s Journey to Becoming an Assistant Principal

by Rosalie Johnson, Reporter, Editor-in-Chief
November 29, 2021

Chertok’s introductory year at CKHS - or in his eyes, “the best school on the peninsula” - is the first year since 2019 that the school has seen students and staff at full time and capacity. Despite the struggles that students and staff have endured as well as obstacles encountered (for example, the readjustment to pre-COVID-19 work and engagement levels) Chertok’s vision of opportunity at reidentifying and recreating a culture that best represents CKHS is an “exciting environment to be in.”

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The Addams Family 2 Review

by Rosalie Johnson, Reporter, Editor-in-Chief
November 3, 2021

Despite its star-studded and famously talented and comedic cast, The Addams Family 2 attempted humor fell flat and the plot was unnecessarily complicated yet underwhelming.

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The Story Of Daunte Wright’s Death At The Hands Of Police

by Rosalie Johnson, Reporter, Editor-in-Chief
May 10, 2021

According to officers also at the scene, Potter had pulled over Wright after she had seen air fresheners hanging from his rearview mirror and attempted to arrest him after learning he had a gross misdemeanor weapons charge and had missed a court appearance. When he resisted, she pulled out her gun and shot him in the chest, yelling “taser!” which was followed by “...I shot him!” moments later.

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The Journey Towards Equal Pay

by Rosalie Johnson, Reporter, Editor-in-Chief
April 1, 2021

Girls develop this type of internalized misogyny when they grow up with these ideals and when they see their own mothers, aunts, sisters, cousins, friends and neighbors struggle to bring home the same as their male counterparts. While fights against sexism and misogyny, and fights to prevent internalized misogyny from developing within childrens’ minds, have been occurring since the start of civilizations and republics, the female empowerment movement gains momentum and popularity as years progress.

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Trump Impeachment Trial Recap

by Rosalie Johnson, Reporter, Editor-in-Chief
March 11, 2021

Former president Donald J. Trump is the first president to be impeached twice and the first ex-president to undergo an impeachment trial.

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“Drivers License” Review

by Rosalie Johnson, Reporter, Editor-in-Chief
February 25, 2021

The depression that teens and young adults are enduring from their concerns about their future, the isolation of the pandemic, and the stress of school is real; to this point, the pure pain and emotion of this song resonates all too well with kids around the globe. Though it was intentionally written for the purpose of surviving heartbreak, it has successfully initiated a movement within teens and pop culture that allows for a liberating release of the pain that has been built up over the course of the pandemic and the tension of America’s political climate.

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The Emotions Behind The 2020 Presidential Election

by Rosalie Johnson, Reporter, Editor-in-Chief
January 20, 2021

Around 8 a.m. on November 7, the light outside my bedroom window woke me up, and out of habit, I reached over to check my phone. My heart immediately dropped and a sharp thrust of adrenaline jolted through my body as I realized that Biden had won. It was the most surreal, serotonin-filled moment of my life. It felt like I could fully breathe for the first time, like a massive weight had been lifted off my shoulders and heart. All of the fear and anger and sadness and exhaustion I had been carrying didn’t go away permanently, but it was certainly the last thing on my mind that morning, as I lay in my bed underneath the sheets, tears streaming down my face, texting my best friends in all caps.

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How Do CKHS Students Feel About The 2020 Election?

by Rosalie Johnson, Reporter, Editor-in-Chief
January 8, 2021

Through a Google Form titled “2020 Election Survey,” high school students submitted their opinions and beliefs on the presidential election as well as other nationwide issues.

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Central Kitsap COVID Rates

by Rosalie Johnson, Reporter, Editor-in-Chief
November 16, 2020

As of the Nov. 16th report, the rate reached 152.1 COVID cases per 100,000 Kitsap residents. Kitsap has seen almost this high of a rate before, back in the summertime from late July to early August with it reaching a rate of 94.4 cases per 100,000 residents on July 29th.

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Live Coverage of the 2020 Presidential Election

by Jessica Gordon, Ellie Larsen, Leanna Fitzgerald, Delaney McCorkle, Olivia Miller, and Rosalie Johnson
November 3, 2020

As the 2020 Presidential Election approaches with candidates Donald Trump (R) and Joseph Biden (D), the Cougar Chronicle strives to provide live coverage on the whereabouts of the candidates alongside...

Linda Roberts’ Tumor Diagnosis

by Rosalie Johnson, Reporter, Editor-in-Chief
November 1, 2020

Post partial nephrectomy, Linda Roberts’ doctor informed her, “the good news is that the tumor wasn’t cancerous and it was successfully removed. The other good news is that it’s good we removed...

10/10 OL Reign vs. Portland Thorns Game Recap

by Rosalie Johnson, Reporter, Editor-in-Chief
October 31, 2020

The OL Reign and Portland Thorns faced off at Cheney Stadium on Oct. 10th. The Thorns took home the 2-1 victory to win the 16th game of the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) Fall Series, with two...