Girl Scout cookie booths open next week in Arlington, beginning a season of sales at Metro stops, shopping centers and apartment buildings around the county.
The first booths will open on Friday, Feb. 6 at the Courthouse and Virginia Square Metro stations, the Giant in Virginia Square (3450 Washington Blvd) and Central Place Plaza in Rosslyn (1800 N. Lynn Street).
Girl Scout cookie season is approaching, and soon there will be a whole lot of them in Arlington and Falls Church.
At publication time, least 16 cookie booths are planned across the county, with at least six more in the Little City. They’ll appear on sidewalks outside local grocery stores, apartment buildings and more, beginning Friday, Feb. 7 and continuing through mid-March.
(Updated at 2 p.m.) This is the last week to stock up on Samoas, Tagalongs, Do-si-dos and Thin Mints, as Girl Scout cookie season draws to an end.
Booth sales in Arlington, run by the little “cookie entrepreneurs,” will end after this Sunday, March 10.
This week begins one of the favorite times of the year for many: Girl Scout cookie season.
Friday (Feb. 3) marks the first day of in-person booth sales in Arlington. Friends and family order taking by scouts started in December, and orders are now being delivered. Cookies will be sold through March 12.
Increased in-person sales have led to more cookies sold for local Girl Scouts in 2022.
With cookie sales coming to a close this weekend, Girl Scouts in Arlington and Alexandria are celebrating a solid season of sales.
(Updated, 2/2/22) Girl Scout cookie sales in Arlington are back in person this year, after going mostly virtual in 2021.
Over the next several weeks, residents will be able to purchase their Thin Mints, Samoas, Tagalongs or the newest flavor, Adventurefuls, at 15 booths across the county, according to the Girl Scouts’ Cookie Finder website. Only four locations were set up in 2021.
(Updated 4 p.m.) Since Girl Scout cookie season started, troops in north Arlington have donated 671 boxes to their hometown heroes: the staff at Virginia Hospital Center.
“It’s very local and very personal,” said Dorine Andrews, the Service Unit Manager for the local scouts. “[VHC] is a real institution in Northern Virginia, and we really feel that the healthcare workers are overworked.”
(Updated at 12:30 p.m.) Girl Scouts have found a half-dozen ways to get their crave-worthy cookies to customers in spite of the pandemic. Here is how to do it.
Starting this week, people can buy cookies online and have them delivered through the Girl Scouts Nation’s Capital chapter. On Friday, troops will set-up booths in at least four locations in Arlington to sell cookies.
It’s that time of year again — spring is around the corner, Shamrock Shakes are officially back at McDonald’s as of today, and Girl Scout cookies are currently on sale all around Arlington.
So where can you restock on your favorite seasonal baked goods? As in years past, local Girl Scouts are setting up shop all over the county. Most cookie-selling stations are located around grocery stores and Metro stations.
An event in Clarendon next week invites runners to wash down Girl Scout cookies with whiskey.
Pacers Running, located at 3100 Clarendon Blvd, is hosting a social run around the neighborhood this coming Tuesday (March 5) with some special treats available at the end.
If you’ve got a hankering for samoas, thin mints and tagalongs these days, you’re in luck — it’s officially Girl Scout cookie season around Arlington.
Local troops have begun setting up booths around the county, with proceeds of the annual sale set to benefit the local Girl Scout Council of the Nation’s Capital and fund a variety of trips and programs for kids around Arlington.
About a month ago, Girl Scouts began selling their famous — dieters might call them infamous — cookies in Arlington.
The net revenue raised from Girl Scout cookies funds the organization’s local council and troops, which in turn is used for trips or donated to community projects or causes.
