By Al Benson Approximately 25 discarded U.S. flags went up in smoke Sunday night in North Aurora. The incineration took place in the North Aurora Police station parking lot as part of Brady Norris’ requirements for a BSA Eagle award. Norris, an Aurora resident and member of Troop 104 in...
Oswego Boy Scout Nathan Cristanujaya, right, gives details about his Eagle Scout project during Sunday worship at Wesley United Methodist Church in Aurora.
Aurora Boy Scouts joined workers laboring on Labor Day Monday. Scouts in Blackhawk Troop 11, meeting at Aurora’s Wesley United Methodist Church, sponsored the sixth annual “Post the Colors” fundraiser. At morning drop offs and evening retrievals, Scouts accompanied by parents and caregivers posted 350 flags in subscribers’ yards in...
Aurora Boy Scouts Nathan Deems, left, and Eddie Deems salute a U.S. flag posted to celebrate U.S. Flag Day Friday, June 14.
Mike Zafran, left, president, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, presents Boy Scout Eddie Deems with an honors certificate and patch during Deems' Eagle Award Court of Honor ceremony
Three West Aurora High School seniors earned Boy Scouting’s Eagle award on Saturday, April 20 afternoon from Troop 104 at Living Hope Church in North Aurora. The award is Scouting’s highest and most coveted award and the last major step in the advancement program. Since 1912, more than 2,000,000 Boy...
Erik Longo of Aurora, right, receives his Eagle Scout neckerchief from his father, Fred Longo, of BSA Blackhawk Troop 11 Sunday, April 7, at Wesley United Methodist Church in Aurora.
Boys Scouts of Blackhawk Troop 11 in Aurora pose Dec. 21, 2023 with handmade replica Viking shields they helped build for Geneva History Museum's "Viking's Voyage" gallery exhibit.
Scouts were honored for completing their Eagle projects at the Park District.
Aurora Boy Scouts Matthew Miller, left, Aurora; Connor McMenamin, Montgomery; and Grayson Arndt, Oswego, burn a discarded American flag Saturday at Ascension Living Fox Knoll Village retirement community in Aurora.
Boy Scouts pitched in at Hesed House homeless shelter in Aurora Saturday, Aug. 26. From 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., 13 Scouts and eight adults wielded hand saws and power tools to clear overgrown brush and plants near Hesed’s women’s shelter. The project was designed to improve safety at the...
Sugar Grove resident Logan Hubble, center, pins his mother Monika, right, during Logan's promotion to Eagle Scout rank Sunday, Aug. 6 Left is Logan's father, Michael.
Boy Scouts of America 2023 District Awards of Merit were awarded to leaders, from left, Steven Hochstetler, Steven Wesseln, Mark Brakeall.
Boy Scout Troop 3 at New England Congregational Church in Aurora will hold a pancake breakfast fundraiser from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sunday, March 6. The public is invited to the event in Friendship Hall at the Church, 406 W. Galena Boulevard in Aurora. Scouts will serve pancakes with...
By Al Benson North Aurora Boy Scout Troop 104 celebrated its first Eagle Scout award winners, and there were two. Connor Harms, 18, of North Aurora and Antonio Del Toro, 17, Aurora, received their promotions to Scouting’s highest rank at an Eagle rank court of honor November 20. The ceremony...
Aurora brothers and Boy Scouts Cole, left, and Jack Eigsti, right, salute an American flag last year in a Post the Colors fundraiser by Blackhawk Boy Scout Troop 11 at Wesley United Methodist Church in Aurora.
Erik Longo, 13, of Aurora, posts a rental flag on a resident's lawn in Aurora on Monday, Memorial Day, during a "Post the Colors" fundraiser by Blackhawk Troop 11.
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