News

May 17th, 2012: "Battle over Ohio scout camp closings goes to court": WKSU report on the court case.
April 16th, 2012: "Oil, gas may aid Girl Scout camp at Great Trail": Canton Repository report on GSNEO possibly selling mineral rights at Great Trail, possibly allowing it to stay open.
March 22nd, 2012: "Despite membership's disapproval, Girl Scout leaders press on": Corey Ringle's letter to the Chagrin Solon Sun in response to Bev Nash's and the past GSLEC presidents' letters.
March 11th, 2012: "Suit over northeast Ohio camp sales mars Girl Scouts' 100th": News report and video from NewsChannel 5 about the lawsuit demanding accountability being filed.
March 8th, 2012: Competing letters in the Chagrin Solon Sun, one from Bev Nash giving facts about what we are doing and why, and the other from three past GSLEC presidents saying we should just trust the board to do the right thing.
February 16th, 2012: "Girl Scouts Boycott Sales": Strongsville Post article on the controversy
February, 2012: "mp Moving Forward as Protests Continue With Threat of Legal Action": Richfield Times article
January 26th, 2012: "Girl Scout camps: On my honor I will try to save them": Mary Jane Skala's editorial in several Sun newspapers supporting camps and camping, and arguing that the camps should be kept open.
January 19th, 2012: "Keep Girl Scout camp, options open for future": Beth Sanderson's and Etta Schau's heartfelt letter in the Berea/Middleburg Heights Sun News
January 19th, 2012: "Scout Troop partially boycotts cookie sale": A report in the Aurora Advocate discussing Marie Cassidy's troop's boycott, with a nice discussion of cookie economics.
January 19th, 2012: "Ohio Girl Scout cookie boycott continues": A little WKSU spot in which Donna Spiegler is quoted as saying that girls are boycotting because camps are closing, and John Graves is quoted saying the standard GSNEO line. Please comment.
January 12th, 2012: "Girl Scouts, Moms, Boycott Cookie Sales in Protest": A post on a parenting blog talking about the boycott, and quoting Lynn Richardson talking about the real issues.
January 10th, 2012: "Diane Spiegler: Memories of Girl Scouting": An editorial in the Akron Beacon Journal.
January 10th, 2012: "Some Ohio girl scouts boycott cookie sales in camp protest": Article on Reuters.com following up on the cookie boycott story, including quotes from Lynn Richardson.
January 9th, 2012: "Girl Scout Troops Boycott Their Own Cookie Sales": Item on Fox 8's web site reporting on the boycott, and including response from Dr. Alford-Smith.
January 9th, 2012: "Portage County Girl Scouts among some who won't sell cookies over camps": Article about Maria Cassidy's troop boycotting cookie sales. This article came from the Associated Press, and was reprinted all over the eastern United States.
October 26th, 2011: "Girl Scout leader tries to save camps", Chagrin Valley Times article about Roberta Riordan
Octcober 20th, 2011: "Girl Scouts fight to keep camps", Youngstown Vindicator article about the controversy
October 10th, 2011: "Unhappy campers revive sale issue", Canton Repository editorial about the controversy.
October 8th, 2011: "Girl Scout leaders in Ohio split over camps", WKYC.com article about the controversy.
October 8th, 2011: "Girl Scouts to vote on camp sales", Akron Beacon-Journal article about the calling of the special meeting to vote on camp sales.
October 7th, 2011: "Girl Scouts at odds over plan to close camps", Canton Repository article about the controversy.
October 7th, 2011: "Girl Scouts of North East Ohio camp closings could be reviewed", front-page article on the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
July/August 2011: "Troop Leader", article in Inside Business" magazine profiling Daisy Alford-Smith
July 12, 2011: "Girl Scout camps up for sale", audio and transcript of segment on National Public Radio's Marketplace Morning Report show.
July, 2011: "Trefoil Integrity" webzine, issue 3, featuring questions and answers about GSNEO's plans to close the camps and our objections to it.
June 27th, 2011: "Girl Scouts stake claim to camps", Akron Beacon-Journal article, the first Macedonia camp-in.
June 15th, 2011: "Girl Scout troops protest campground closings, sale", article in Macedonia News-Leader about the camp-in.
June 11th, 2011: "Copley-Fairlawn Girl Scouts Protest Camp Closing Plan", article in the Fairlawn-Bath Patch about the camp-in.
June 2011: "Be Prepared -- for an uncertain future", Richfield Times cover story.
May 19th, 2011: "Objections to closing all but two Northeast Ohio Girl Scout camps", letter to the editor of MorningJournal.com, a Northern Ohio news web site, written by Lynn Richardson.
May 13th, 2011: "It’s Not Over Yet, Says Save Camps Group and GSUSA Volunteers in Ohio", article by Corey Ringle on SaveCamps.org web site.
May 12th, 2011: "Girls Scouts of North East Ohio should abide by members' wishes and keep camps open", letter to the editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
May 9th, 2011: "Fewer but better Girl Scout camps", Cleveland Plain Dealer editorial, May 9th, 2011, favoring the board's plan to close all but two camps.
May 8th, 2011: "Hard to say goodbye to Camp Sugarbush", letter to the editor on TribToday.com, the Warren Tribune Chronicle's web site. The letter was written by Emily Strama, age 11.
April 27th, 2010: "Jackson man buys Camp Lycopodia from Girl Scouts", Canton Repository article.
June 18th, 2009: "Closing camps ruins Girl Scouts' dreams", Canton Repository article about closing Camp Lycopodia.
June 17th, 2009: "Girl Scout camps to close", Canton Repository article about prospective closing of Great Trail and other camps.
September 26th, 2006: "Northeast Ohio Girl Scout councils to unite". Although I'm pretty sure that the courts can't count the promises in a newspaper article as as binding, this archived article DOES bring out a valid point: members were told that the merger would benefit us. It was supposed to give us more opportunities. And it should have. After the initial costs of the merger itself settled down, there should have been centralized, streamlined administration being supported by quintupled cookie income. The benefits should have been enormous by now.