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For a Hendersonville Girl Scout troop, the time to shine in the national spotlight is now.

A New York Times story on the price of Girl Scout cookies focuses on the annual fundraising eftorts in New York City and New Jersey and — lo and behold —Hendersonville. The story features photos of Girl Scout Troop 2988 selling cookies at Lowe's on Seventh Avenue East at Duncan Hill Road.

Times reporter Julie Creswell, who is a business writer specializing in the food industry, reports that cookie prices spiked to $7 a box, from $5 last year, in New York City and rose to $6 in New Jersey. Prices vary across the country. "That’s because the 111 councils that make up the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. operate as individual nonprofit organizations and negotiate separate contracts with the two bakeries that are licensed to manufacture the cookies," Creswell reports.

There's good news for us!

“In 2021, we went up to $5 a box from $4,” Troop 2988 leader Jennifer Norton told the Times. “But this year, our cookie prices didn’t budge.”

Girl Scouts use the proceeds from cookie sales to support programming and field trips. Norton told the Times that Hendersonville girls had enjoyed programs on computer coding, robotics and American Sign Language and hoped to travel to Savannah, Ga., to visit a museum at the Girl Scouts' first headquarters.