Journal: Boy Scout Troop 282's trip to Philmont Scout Ranch

During late July and early August, some of the Boy Scouts of Clay County Troop 282 took a backpacking trip to Philmont Scout Ranch, near Cimarron, N.M. After the troop's last trip, in the summer of 2008, Scout Leader Tom Barbre gave us his journal, which the Advocate-Press presented excerpts from. This year, we will run all of Barbre's journal from the trip, divided into two parts. For the full ...

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Life & Style

The Monday morning commuter rush at Lee Valley, in north-east London, starts early — at 4am. From that ungodly hour, people can be glimpsed hurriedly pacing across dewy grass in the pre-dawn gloom. Some wear the high-visibility chartreuse tabards favoured by council workers. Some are clad in immaculate white shirt and tie. Others wear hoodies and a few still have driblets of shaving foam on ...

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