In 2019, it began to let girls participate in the Boy Scouts division, which is now called Scouts BSA. At the troop’s second meeting, last Friday, Will Ebel, district executive for Scouting ...

So when the Boy Scouts of America opened membership to girls in 2019, she asked her parents to help her form a troop. Starting Troop 99 was a big step for the then-shy sixth grader. Now 17 ...

“When we tried to start my old troop in Newark, we were trying to call all the old Boy Scouts, but it’s hard when people move away to Massachusetts and Virginia.” Neves, who was an Eagle ...