Community Corner
It's Girl Scout-Cookie Time!
The cookies have been helping troops fund activities and projects for more than 80 years.
It's Girl Scout cookie time again.
Samoas, Do-si-dos and Thin Mints are just three of the available cookie flavors brought back for yet another season of fundraising.
The price of a box was raised from $3.50 to $4.00.
Northport and Elwood have dozens of Girl Scout troops. To find out where you can buy cookies locally, go here.
The Girl Scouts of the USA approves and currently licenses only two bakers: ABC Bakers and Little Brownie Bakers.
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The sale of cookies has long helped Girl Scouts raise money to fund their activities for the year,to fund community service and leadership projects, to attend summer camp, to travel to destinations near and far and to provide events for girls in their community.
The earliest mention of a cookie sale found to date was that of the Mistletoe Troop in Muskogee, Oklahoma, according to GirlScoutCookies.org. The troop reportedly baked cookies and sold them in its high school cafeteria as a service project in December 1917.
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