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Baiting Hollow Scout Camp to mark 100th anniversary with April 25 celebration

by Mar 20, 2026
A century after opening on 200 acres between Sound Avenue and Long Island Sound, Camp Baiting Hollow will celebrate its 100th anniversary...

Eagle Scout candidate builds highly visible, convenient U.S. flag depository on Sound Avenue

by Jan 3, 2024
North Fork residents and visitors now have a convenient way to properly dispose of U.S. flags that are no longer appropriate to display due to wear and tear, thanks to the efforts of Wading River Boy Scout Teddy Haarke.

Baiting Hollow Scout Camp staff member tests positive for COVID-19

by Aug 3, 2020
A staff member at Baiting Hollow Scout Camp has tested positive for COVID-19, the camp announced yesterday.

A boy’s love of trains and Scouting come together in Eagle Scout project

by Jun 28, 2019
The Railroad Museum of Long Island has a new shed to store a prized antique apparatus thanks to Eagle Scout Sean Maki of Baiting Hollow.

Scouts place flags on nearly a quarter-million graves at Calverton National Cemetery

by May 25, 2019
Some 6,000 Scouts and their family members placed flags on each of the 225,000 graves in the country’s largest — and busiest — national cemetery.

Wading River Boy Scouts Troop 94 honors seven new Eagle Scouts

by Nov 26, 2017
Seven Scouts in Troop 94 have attained the rank of Eagle Scout this year. It is the Boy Scouts’ highest award, attained by only 4 percent of all Boy Scouts.

With recent Boy Scouts decision, local girls who have participated ‘for years’ will become official members

by Oct 26, 2017
Starting next year, Bella may finally have the opportunity to wear a Cub Scout uniform and earn badges as an official member of her brother’s Greenport pack, where she has long been a member in every way but name.

A 23-year tradition: Scouts decorate graves at Calverton National Cemetery

by May 27, 2017
Scouts placed American flags on the nearly quarter-million graves at Calverton National Cemetery this morning.