Before Girl Scout Cookie season kicks off in January, the team from WTAE’s “Chronicle: A Cookie Town” caught up with some local girl scouts and members of Girl Scout leadership to talk about the significance of the season.Orders begin in January, followed by delivery and the start of booth sales at some point in February.“Girl Scouts are doing great things all year,” said Mina Beach, the public relations and marketing coordinator for Girl Scouts Of Western Pennsylvania.About cookie season, Beach later added, “It’s also a really big time for girls who joined troops in the fall to really get to put those skills they’ve been building to use.”The girls involved often hold cookie rallies and practice mock door-to-door sales to prepare them for cookie season.And Kara Benedetto, a member of Girl Scout Troop 60187, talked about an unexpected way she approaches cookie sales.“We usually ask my dentist to buy cookies and everyone I sell to is really enthusiastic about it,” she said. She said she often leaves a sales sheet at the dentist’s office to entice more people to buy cookies.Girl Scout cookie sales have also proven to be a way to help the girls give back to the community.People purchasing cookies are given an option to pay to donate boxes to military members through Operation: Sweet Appreciation.The girls and leaders we spoke with also talked about cookie donations made to the Upper Saint Clair Cancer Center and the Baldwin school bus drivers.And some proceeds from cookie sales help the girls go on adventures.The group Chronicle spoke with described visits to Pennsylvania’s State Capitol and Hersheypark.Part of the fun of Girl Scout Cookie season is also the occasional debut of a new cookie.In 2026, that cookie is the Exploremores, described as a rocky road ice cream-inspired sandwich cookie.Chronicle was there for an exclusive first taste of the new cookie.The scouts we interviewed said they enjoyed it and one of the members of leadership said they were thinking about including the concept in their cookie rally, perhaps with a sundae bar.
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Before Girl Scout Cookie season kicks off in January, the team from WTAE’s “Chronicle: A Cookie Town” caught up with some local girl scouts and members of Girl Scout leadership to talk about the significance of the season.
Orders begin in January, followed by delivery and the start of booth sales at some point in February.
“Girl Scouts are doing great things all year,” said Mina Beach, the public relations and marketing coordinator for Girl Scouts Of Western Pennsylvania.
About cookie season, Beach later added, “It’s also a really big time for girls who joined troops in the fall to really get to put those skills they’ve been building to use.”
The girls involved often hold cookie rallies and practice mock door-to-door sales to prepare them for cookie season.
And Kara Benedetto, a member of Girl Scout Troop 60187, talked about an unexpected way she approaches cookie sales.
“We usually ask my dentist to buy cookies and everyone I sell to is really enthusiastic about it,” she said.
She said she often leaves a sales sheet at the dentist’s office to entice more people to buy cookies.
Girl Scout cookie sales have also proven to be a way to help the girls give back to the community.
People purchasing cookies are given an option to pay to donate boxes to military members through Operation: Sweet Appreciation.
The girls and leaders we spoke with also talked about cookie donations made to the Upper Saint Clair Cancer Center and the Baldwin school bus drivers.
And some proceeds from cookie sales help the girls go on adventures.
The group Chronicle spoke with described visits to Pennsylvania’s State Capitol and Hersheypark.
Part of the fun of Girl Scout Cookie season is also the occasional debut of a new cookie.
In 2026, that cookie is the Exploremores, described as a rocky road ice cream-inspired sandwich cookie.
Chronicle was there for an exclusive first taste of the new cookie.
The scouts we interviewed said they enjoyed it and one of the members of leadership said they were thinking about including the concept in their cookie rally, perhaps with a sundae bar.