________________________________________ Hi Andy, I recently transferred councils and connected with a new troop. This troop’s been around for over 50 years but right now is under brand-new adult leadership. They’re trying their best to elevate the troop to truly “Scout-Led,” per Baden-Powell, and so we’ve just had patrol elections for Patrol Leaders. Unfortunately, one patrol […]

________________________________________ In response to THE MANTOOTH BONE segment I published on December 31st, I’ve heard from a bunch of Scouts about wanting more! Here’s one… I just read the excerpt about Eddie and I showed it to our troop. They agreed with me and they want to know the rest of the story! (Fawn Walden, […]

For those of you who wanted a copy of the Readers Digest Version of How a Troop Should Operate, it is now online at http://netcommissioner.com/2012/06/how-a-scout-troop-works/.  If you want a print version click on the orange plus sign and select print at the top of the article.  You can also download this in the following formats: […]

Most of you know Andy through his columns here. I thought you might like to have a peek at Andy in real life. Earlier this month, Andy was the featured guess on a program of the Hunterdon County Internet Radio, sponsored by the Hunterdon County Chamber of Commerce. Andy talked about the Scouting-Rotary connection with […]

On Christmas Day, look for a special issue and consider it my gift to you.  Thank you, every one, for your interest, inquisitiveness, helpfulness, sharp eyes when I mess up, and most of all your loyalty and inspiring Scout spirit!  Never lose sight of this: We’re all in this TOGETHER, so let’s set our sights […]

  Well, folks, you’ve figured out that I’m not in Scotland and don’t need any money! Yup, I got hit– My regular email account was hacked yesterday, and made a real mess of things, including the loss of a bunch of questions from you all! So I’ve established a (temporary, I hope!) new email address: […]

This morning we have had a rash of emails to us via web forms and regular email asking about emails that appear to have come from one or more of these addresses: AskAndy@yahoo.com AskAndyL@yahoo.com AskAndyBSA@yahoo.com The text of the message indicates that Andy has been robbed in Scotland and needs your money. Rest assured that […]

The Ask Andy advice column will be ten years old on November 23, 2011.  By that time Andy will have written about 1.65 million words of advice to fellow Scouters on a wide variety of subjects – a record that rivals that of Green Bar Bill’s many writings. Please take a moment to add a […]

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