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[ May 23, 2018 ] Order of the Arrow to open unit elections to Scouts BSA, Venturing and Sea Scouts beginning Feb. 1, 2019 Boy Scouts (Scouts BSA)
[ May 23, 2018 ] 10 Scouters to receive 2018 Silver Buffalo Award, Scouting’s top honor for volunteers Awards
[ May 23, 2018 ] Meet George Oldroyd: hero, Eagle Scout and one of the youngest Scoutmasters ever Boy Scouts (Scouts BSA)
[ May 23, 2018 ] Green means good: Meet the 2018 National Venturing Leadership Award honorees Awards
[ May 22, 2018 ] Guidance for honoring veterans with grave site flags on Memorial Day Boy Scouts (Scouts BSA)

Tattoo parlor, community support troop after tree lot theft

December 19, 2017 12

Josh Hughes believes in Scouting. When he heard that a tip jar was stolen from Troop 59’s Christmas tree lot, he cut a $200 check for the Scouts.

This Webelos Scout’s campaign video for fifth-grade vice president is Oscar-worthy

November 15, 2017 12

Alexander Miles is a member of Pack 695 of the Sam Houston Area Council. In October, he ran for vice president of his fifth-grade class.

What would you do if you found $4,000? For this Life Scout, the answer was obvious

October 20, 2017 8

The money — totaling $4,000 in hundred-dollar bills — was just sitting there in the open where anybody could’ve picked it up.

Found! Cub Scout uniform that washed ashore after Hurricane Irma belongs to this officer in U.S. Navy

September 21, 2017 15

Pat Gegg thought he had lost everything when Hurricane Irma took his cottage on Ponte Vedra Beach, southeast of Jacksonville, Fla.

Troop’s equipment building honors departed Scoutmaster

September 15, 2017 5

The Jim Potjunas Troop 101 Scout Center was designed, built and dedicated in honor of Potjunas. Now it stands in his memory.

Air Force veteran, now a Scouting volunteer in St. Louis, was in the Pentagon on 9/11

September 11, 2017 1

Sixteen years later, she’s the mom of an Eagle Scout and a volunteer who leads the Cub Scout Camping Committee for the Greater St. Louis Area Council.

Winning formula: Eagle Scout wins world championship in Microsoft Excel

August 11, 2017 12

An Eagle Scout from Virginia won the Excel trophy at the Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship in Anaheim, Calif.

One inspiring photo from summer camp shows what it means to be a Scout

July 5, 2017 5

Scouts are brave, helpful and kind. All three qualities are stirringly summarized in a single photo that comes to us from summer camp.

Parents of boy with autism were told to ‘try Scouting,’ and this happened

June 12, 2017 98

If you had to pick just one point of the Scout Law to describe Isaiah V., it would be brave. That same word applies to his mom and dad, too.

When a student brought a gun to school, one teen’s quick thinking saved classmates

June 5, 2017 8

A 13-year-old Star Scout received the BSA’s Honor Medal for his quick thinking when a classmate brought a gun to school.