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    • HashTagScouts
      Next merger

      By HashTagScouts · Posted

      I have never asked anyone from that Council, but I did talk with an old timer from NY several years ago and they came up in conversation. The longstanding rumor is that they told National many years ago- like, when they were still headquartered in NYC- that they would never agree to change any of the charter agreement language, so that what you stated would remain the case as it had been going back to 1912, that Council was in charge of hiring their own staff. Camp Seton is also believed to be legally owned by the Greenwich Council corporate entity, and Greenwich Council "threatens" National that they will never agree to transfer ownership of it if National tried to take away their charter.  250 acres in Greenwich CT is worth a pretty penny in todays real estate market I'm sure.  This all as I say rumor, would be interested if it is accurate. 
    • RememberSchiff
      Scouts in Action - Scouts and Tsunami on the ocean. (HI)

      By RememberSchiff · Posted

      Thursday 7/24/2025: Eleven Kauaʻi Sea Scouts departed Nāwiliwili Harbor (red dot below)  for a 10-day cruise around Kaua'i on a 40-foot trawler named Decisive. "A very powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka coast triggered tsunami warnings as far away as French Polynesia and Chile, and was followed by an eruption of the most active volcano on the peninsula." Tuesday 7/29/2025:  knowing the first tsunami wave was forecast to hit Kauaʻi just after 7 p.m., the scouts pulled anchor and headed to deep waters about a mile out... Rest of the story (text with photos and audio): https://kauainownews.com/2025/08/01/tsunami-scare-tests-kauaʻi-sea-scouts-confidence-and-abilities-while-on-a-10-day-cruise/ https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/huge-quake-russia-triggers-tsunami-warnings-around-pacific-2025-07-30/  
    • InquisitiveScouter
      Next merger

      By InquisitiveScouter · Posted

      Once upon a time, a member of Greenwich council told me that, since the endowment was so large, and (somehow) unencumbered by national, that the Board in this council could choose their CE without input from National... and did. When threatened with charter removal, the response to National was something like, "Fine, we'll take our multi-million dollar endowment and choose another program for our youth."  So National left them alone. Could not verify this was true, though... Can anyone out there confirm that?  
    • SiouxRanger
      Pack "soft merger" logistics question - Registered den leaders requirements

      By SiouxRanger · Posted

      Where does one find this rule? Thanks.
    • Tron
      Next merger

      By Tron · Posted

      Yeah I have nearby scoop on Greenwich, they use to have a lot of money but their endowment is almost drained now. I get how when they were getting pounded with donations in the millions of dollars how national just turned a blind eye to a council with like 1 troop and 1 pack. But now? They might be on the horizon for being absorbed; they're running without a CE. 

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