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    Saturday, May 25, 2024

    Girl Scout Cookie season in Conn. is here. Here's how to get your favorite flavors

    'Tis the season — for Girl Scout Cookies that is.

    Girl Scouts of Connecticut launched its official 2024 cookie season on Jan. 20, allowing customers to pre-order the treats several weeks in advance.

    This year's lineup of cookie flavors includes Adventurefuls, Thin Mints, Samoas, Tagalongs, Do-si-dos, Trefoils, Lemon-Ups, Girl Scout S'mores and gluten-free Toffee-tastics. Each package costs $6 each and the organization will deliver all pre-orders to Connecticut on March 16, according to a news release by GSOFCT. Troops will then set up booths in their local neighborhoods through the end of April.

    Customers can order the treats by contacting an individual Girl Scout or by reaching out to GSOFCT's Customer Care team, which will connect them to a member in their area.

    "Our cookie season is always met with such excitement among the Connecticut community as it's truly a time to trade in icicles for icing," Diana Mahoney, chief executive officer of GSOFCT, said in the release. "Equally important, girls learn to work as a team to accomplish goals, while building confidence in their individual abilities."

    GSOFCT, a local chapter of the pre-eminent leadership development organization Girl Scouts of USA, runs the cookie program every year to teach members marketing, money management and other skills, Mahoney said in the release. All proceeds raised by cookie sales will go towards GSOFCT programming and training, she said.

    Some members are participating in GSOFCT's Gift of Caring Service Project, Cookies for Heroes, where Connecticut customers can buy cookies for active-duty service members, veterans and "local community heroes." Last year, customers donated more than 125,000 packages of Girl Scout Cookies through the cause, according to the release.

    GSOFCT increased the price of cookies this year from $5 to $6 per box. Last fall, an official attributed the adjustment to changing costs of nationwide goods and services.

    Girl Scouts of the USA also announced last fall that they will no longer offer the chocolate-covered Raspberry Rally cookies, which were promoted as a "sister" cookie to Thin Mints. A Girl Scouts spokesperson told TODAY.com. that the organization launched the cookie flavor in 2022 "as part of a pilot online-only sales strategy" to teach girls omnichannel business skills. The organization will pause the flavor this season to focus on their classic flavors, the spokesperson said.

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