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It’s not your Leave it to Beaver Scouts any more
As its membership declines, new Canadians have started joining in. But can the age-old wilderness movement rise again?

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Airstream brings new meaning to phrase ‘roughing it’
LOS ANGELES — Like a lot of Angelenos, I like to ditch the city every once in a while and experience nature. Briefly. My last escape involved 1,000 or so Cub Scouts, a battered, borrowed tent and two days of port-a-potties and pump-station water. This time around I was looking to rough it, but rough it “lite,” during a weekend getaway with my best friend and our two young children.

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Community turns out to welcome home local Marine
NORRISTOWN — Two fire trucks flank Pine Street in Norristown with ladders extended and united by an unfurled American flag whipping in the wind to create an arch. A small parade-size crowd has gathered — waving banners and flags — in what looks more like a Fourth of July celebration then a seemingly ordinary warm August day.

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Local Scouts march in Grand Centennial Parade
Boy Scouts from the Frederick Moose Troop 371 battled the heat as they marched in the Boy Scouts of America Grand Centennial Parade in Washington

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Michael Winship: The Right Manipulates Muslims – and Boy Scouts
Michael Winship I was never a Boy Scout but I was a helluva Cub Scout. Pack 30, First Congregational Church. I rose through the ranks:…

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Local Scouts will gather at Landmark Park Sunday to honor BSA
February 8, 1910, the Boy Scouts of America was born. Sunday, from 2-4 p.m., Wiregrass participants in BSA, along with their families and friends, will gather at Landmark Park to celebrate this organization’s milestone of service – 100 years.

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Cub Scouts earn enthusiasm award
Lonoke Cub Scouts Lee Glover Langdon, Gabe Beard, Aaron Watkins, Anderson Fletcher, Riley Miller and Ryan Cleveland attended the Three Rivers Cub Scouts day camp in Beebe June 14-17.

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CENTENNIAL: Boy Scouts of America celebrates 100 years
The area director for Boy Scouts of American led a fitting tribute to the organization in its centennial year for Henderson Optimist Club’s weekly luncheon program Thursday at ETMC Henderson.

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Local Scouts to attend national jamboree
On July 26 the state of Virginia will add an instant city of more than 55,000 residents. Ten days later the city will be vacant. And that’s important to Dyer County because eight of its residents…

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No eyesore: Eagle Scout’s bin aids disposal of flags
This article has been read 0 times. Officers of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 927 in Washington had no problem allowing 18-year-old Trevor DeThomas to create a bin for collection of old flags to obtain his Eagle Scout rank.

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Coming up in Harding, the Chesters, Mendhams and Washington Twp.
THURSDAY, July 15 A free, guided hike will be offered at 9:30 a.m. at the Dismal Harmony Natural Area. Hikers can meet at 9:30 a.m. in the small parking area on East Main Street, Brookside, about four tenths of a mile east of the Brookside Post Office. The monthly hikes are sponsored by the Mendham Township Open Space Committee, Schiff Nature Preserve, and the Mendham Township and Mendham …

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Local Beat 7/17/10
A list of meetings and events of interest throughout Navarro County

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Local Cub Scouts win with speed and shine
A pair of Bogalusa Cub Scouts swept the competition at the 2010 Bogue Tuchenna District pinewood derby in Covington recently.

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Scout festival blends old, new
Jambo100, held at Kutztown University, celebrates a century of Scouting with activities including marshmallow-shooting crossbows and tomahawk hurling The marshmallows were flying over the weekend in Kutztown, as hundreds of eager Cub Scouts lined up to take their turns firing off plastic, confection-launching toy crossbows at the Jambo100 Boy Scout festival and campout.

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Local Boy Scouts celebrate 100 years
SOUTH BEND — In the century that the Boy Scouts of America have been in existence, some aspects of the organization have changed.

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