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Boy Scouts’ claim on lake island in jeopardy

Use of land in Forest Preserve an unusual arrangement

Saturday, January 2, 2010

By Jim McGuire (Contact)
Gazette Reporter

The Boy Scouts of America may not have any real claim on the 50-acre island of state Forest Preserve land located off the Mayfield shore of the Great Sacandaga Lake, but the place is known as Scout Island and Scouts may have camped there even before the lake was created in 1930....

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