Blue and Gold celebrates cub scouting and their achievements. Each year, a ceremony takes place to highlight all of the requirements the scouts had to complete throughout the year before the … more

Valley Stream’s Cub Scout Pack 367 held its annual Blue and Gold ceremony on March 5, a celebration aimed at honoring the founding of the Cub Scout program, recognizing scouts’ … more

Valley Stream’s Cub Scout Pack 367 held its annual Blue and Gold ceremony on Feb. 28, when 54 of its scouts moved up in rank, according to Cubmaster Patrick Burke. The ceremony was held at the … more

Cub Scouts from Pack 367 gathered on Jan. 26 at the Holy Name of Church to race their homemade cars in a series of competitive matches for the pack’s annual Pinewood Derby.  Around … more

Cub Scouts from Pack 367 gathered on Jan. 26 at the Holy Name of Church to race their homemade cars in a series of competitive matches for the pack’s annual Pinewood Derby.  Around … more

About 200 family members and friends gathered at the Holy Name of Mary School on March 3 to watch as 55 members of Cub Scout Pack 367 moved up in rank. and five boys became Boy Scouts. more

For the first time in nearly two decades, the Boy Scouts of America has added a new program to include kindergarten kids, and on Sept. 16, Valley Stream Boy Scouts Pack 367 is hosting an open house at the Holy Name of Mary School cafeteria. more

Chaz Murray, 54, grew up in Merrick bounding through the woods near his home. He became a Boy Scout and went on to camp in the wild. He moved away when he turned 24 and returned seven years ago. On Sunday, he said he was horrified to see the derelict state into which Merrick’s forests off the Meadowbrook Parkway have fallen. Murray, a New York City paramedic, was one of 52 volunteers who came to the woods between Sunrise Highway and Meadowbrook Road in Merrick to clean up debris that had washed from farther north into the forest via the Meadow Brook or had been strewn there by vandals. He said he learned about the cleanup by reading the Merrick Herald Life. more

Camping is about giving people the opportunity to live off the land. While survival skills hardly come into play at the annual Valley Stream Camporee, this year scouts learned the importance of protecting the Earth that provides for them. more

Mother Nature was much kinder to Valley Stream’s scouts than she has been in years past, as this year’s Camporee went off without a single drop of rain falling. more