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Summer camp directors were blindsided last month when officials with the state’s health services department unveiled a series of regulations intended to increase camper safety, but which camp ...

“For my family, these months have felt like an eternity. For the camp, it seems like nothing more than a brief pause before business as usual,” one parent said Gofundme; RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty ...

Camp Mystic plans to reopen next summer near the site where 27 girls and counselors died in a July flood. The campers and counselors were swept to their deaths when fast-rising floodwaters of the ...

A red heart with “Mystic” sign is seen by the Guadalupe River, the other side of Camp Mystic, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025, in Hunt. Chitose Suzuki / Staff Photographer KERRVILLE, Texas — Camp Mystic plans ...

“We continue to evaluate plans to rebuild Camp Mystic Guadalupe River." Camp Mystic announced plans to reopen one site of its summer camp a year after flash flooding killed 27 campers and counselors ...

Camp Mystic announced plans to reopen one site of its summer camp a year after flash flooding killed 27 campers and counselors on Texas' Guadalupe River on the Fourth of July earlier this year. The ...

In 2024 I found out that I was getting laid off from a job I loved in entertainment media. A friend posted about a summer job as a media director at a camp outside of NYC that caught my eye. Working ...

Set in a world of anthropomorphic animals, Summer Camp Island follows two best friends Oscar, and Hedgehog, and Oscar who are dropped off at a surreal summer camp. The camp is a host to many odd ...

LAKE WENATCHEE, Chelan County — Camp director Tim McElravy stood at the base of an outdoor amphitheater and faced his final group of campers this summer, each seated on a wooden bench and clutching a ...

These women met in an online book club. They traveled to a remote corner of Maine to read together. It was oddly moving. These women met in an online book club. They traveled to a remote corner of ...