With all his accomplishments, Hayes created a different sort of challenge for his mom: Where to sew all those badges on his uniform? "They stopped making the 40-inch sash [for merit badges ...

GREENVILLE – It turns out, 139 merit badges don't fit on a single sash. At least, that was the case for Eagle Scout Riley Mooney, whose mom had to sew two sashes together to accommodate them all.

Aspiring Eagle Scouts no longer sew these patches onto their merit badge sashes, much to the chagrin of taxidermists and almond farmers everywhere Scouts learned how to raise an assortment of nuts ...

When the badge is released, he’ll have to find a place for it on his merit badge sash, which has had material added to it because it is designed to hold only 118 badges. The Boy Scouts of ...

The badges themselves are awards given to the scouts for gaining an understanding in a particular field of study which they wear on their uniform’s sashes. A geology merit badge organizer Ronald ...

An image of a gold bugle is on the cloth badge recently sewn on the heavily laden, forest green sash Sal Aloisio wears ... earned every one of BSA’s 139 merit badge awards.

WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL)— Several scouts from across the Northwest Texas Council and beyond have two more badges to put on their sashes after the annual merit badge college at Midwestern State ...

Around age 11, Briar McLellan rose to the rank of Boy Scout and immediately aspired to earn every merit badge in ... would collect all 138 badges, requiring a second sash to hold them all.