Huron Lake, Pa (July 1, 2016) – When Camp Huron Lake Senior Boys Jake Goldfine and Josh Bernstein embarked on their hike shortly after bunk inspection, they could not have possibly expected to run into a man who has been the source of fear among sleep away campers for untold decades.  The boys had heard stories of a man named Cropsey, a child-murdering, mental case who lurked just on the outskirts of seemingly every summer camp, but had always assumed…

Checks Mailbox First To See If Her Kids Wrote Yet Livingston, NJ (June 27, 2016) – Last summer area mother and resident nut job Shelly Shapiro, 45, made national headlines when she dropped her children at the Livingston Mall camp buses and drove directly to Camp Huron Lake to be the first on line for Visiting Day.  This summer, Shapiro, after a winter of intense parenting psychotherapy, decided to hire an Uber driver to wait in her place ensuring she…

Short Hills, NJ (June 17, 2016) – According to a recent Jewish Weekly News poll, the majority of the sleep away camp community is ninety-five percent done packing and have been for over a month.  To the day camp and town recreation crowd, this may sound like a great position to be in, but as parents of sleep away campers can attest, being done versus almost done, is as big as the difference between Oreos and Hydrox. Typically the first…

Syosset, NY (May 16, 2016) – After months of growing anticipation, Whining Willow alum LeBrian Jamesberg, winner of last summer’s Nassau/Suffolk U10 GaGa Day Camp Championship, announced yesterday that he will be attending Camp Huron Lake for the upcoming summer. Surrounded by family, friends, and his spiritual advisor, Rabbi Hirschel Borowitz, Jamesberg proudly told the group of camp directors and camp clothing outfitters in attendance at the Plainview Jewish Community Center that he will be leaving home to go to…

Livingston, NJ (August 14, 2015) – Parents of returning sleepaway campers in the tri-state area are giddy in excitement at the thought of their children being home after seven fun-filled weeks away. Stress-free days at home followed by romantic evenings under a star-filled sky will quickly give way to organizing play dates, doing their kids’ dioramas, and cleaning up a trail of filth that only a child can create. The second the children get off the buses at local malls,…