Troop 28

Rowland displays the finished product after a busy Veterans’ Day weekend working on the giant chess set. [Courtesy photo]

His Eagle Scout project was a game, but Marcus Rowland isn’t playing around. At 16 years of age, the Cohasset High School sophomore was the youngest member of Troop 28 to make the Eagle Scout rank in at least a decade.

Rowland, in the spirit of Osgood School’s former principal Bob LeCount, created an eight-by-eight foot giant chess board for the elementary school’s playground, complete with giant figurines.

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Quentin Hill became an Eagle Scout on Nov. 15. For his project he cleared brush along the path to the Osgood School’s outdoor classroom and build these three benches. The classroom was not recently in use due to lack of maintenance. Wicked Local Staff Photo/Alyssa Stone

Hill rounded out his Eagle qualifications by making improvements to the outdoor classroom at Osgood School. He added three benches and cleared the overgrown trail so that teachers could start taking advantage of the disused space again.

“When I was there, we would occasionally use that space,” Hill remembered. “The space was there, but it wasn’t being used. The project gave that area a better use.”

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