Woodland Regional High School hosted a veteran’s forum May 22 at the school in Beacon Falls. Veterans from Beacon Falls and Prospect spent the morning in the media center at Woodland talking with students about what life is like in the service and in a war. The annual forum is organized by the school’s history department. History teacher Tim Phipps said the forum gives the students the ‘human side of history.’ –ELIO GUGLIOTTI
Algonquin and Community schools Principal Rima McGeehan, right, and first-grade teacher Maria Rousseau lead Algonquin students down Center Street in Prospect to the Town Green for Algonquin’s annual Memorial Day ceremony May 21. Algonquin students have been participating in the ceremony since the 1940s. –LUKE MARSHALL
Michaela Pernell, a Naugatuck resident and senior at Nonnewaug High School, recently signed a National Letter of Intent to attend Merrimack College in Massachusetts on a track scholarship. Pernell has set school, league and state records at Nonnewaug. She has also received All-State and All-New England honors. She signed the letter with her family by her side. Pictured, from left, Mick Pernell, Lily Scanlon, Danielle Scanlon, Michaela Pernell, Jeff Scanlon and Nonnewaug track coach Arleigh Duff. –CONTRIBUTED
Algonquin School music teacher Franca Grzybowski leads students in a song during the school’s annual Memorial Day ceremony May 21 on Prospect’s Town Green. Algonquin students have been participating in the annual ceremony since the 1940s. –LUKE MARSHALL
Woodland Regional High School hosted a veteran’s forum May 22 at the school in Beacon Falls. Veterans from Beacon Falls and Prospect spent the morning in the media center at Woodland talking with students about what life is like in the service and in a war. The annual forum is organized by the school’s history department. History teacher Tim Phipps said the forum gives the students the ‘human side of history.’ –ELIO GUGLIOTTI
New England Brewing Company Head Brewer Matt Westfall, right, explains the difference between Sea Hag and 668, two of the company’s beers, to Prospect residents Rocco and Blanche Ranaudo on May 19 at the Prospect Library. Westfall was there as part of a presentation by author Will Siss, who recently released his new book, ‘Connecticut Beer: A History of Nutmeg State Brewing.’ Siss, who writes the ‘Beer Snob’ column in the Republican-American, read from his book and answered questions about the history of beer in Connecticut. –LUKE MARSHALL
Three members of USA Martial Arts in Naugatuck advanced at a Black belt grading May 1 at the Boys Club in Waterbury. Evan Lin and Isaiah Shea of Beacon Falls were promoted to 1st Dan Black belt and Pete Meleschnig of Naugatuck was promoted to 3rd Dan Black belt. –CONTRIBUTED
Woodland Regional High School hosted a veteran’s forum May 22 at the school in Beacon Falls. Veterans from Beacon Falls and Prospect spent the morning in the media center at Woodland talking with students about what life is like in the service and in a war. The annual forum is organized by the school’s history department. History teacher Tim Phipps said the forum gives the students the ‘human side of history.’ –ELIO GUGLIOTTI
Naugatuck-based All About You! Home Care Services Community Liaison Veronica Rinaldi and Clinical Liaison Christine Tyrell were exhibitors at Connecticut Council of Parish Nurse Coordinators Symposium held April 23 in Derby. –CONTRIBUTED
Woodland Regional High School students Annalie Bouchard (fourth from the left) and Lily Fontaine (third from the left) were honored at the Connecticut Association of Schools High School Outstanding Arts Awards Banquet held on April 6 at the Aqua Turf Club in Southington. The CAS Outstanding Arts Awards Banquet annually recognizes two seniors in each CAS member high school for outstanding ability in the performing or visual arts. The students are selected by their schools to receive this honor. The students are pictured receiving their awards with, from left, WJMJ Radio Weekday Morning Host Jerry Kristafer, Bearingstar Insurance Sales Associate Jennifer LaJoie, Jostens Sales Associate Kevin Myjak, and CAS Executive Director Karissa Niehoff. –CONTRIBUTED
Justin Smith, a kindergarten student at St. Francis-St. Hedwig School in Naugatuck, is a state grade-level winner in this year’s Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest. –CONTRIBUTED
Eastern Connecticut State University senior Richard Magner of Beacon Falls, right, and his mentor, mathematics professor Mizan Khan, presented at the Posters on the Hill conference in Washington, D.C., on April 22 and 23. Magner’s research, titled ‘Geometric Questions in Number Theory,’ was one of 50 submissions selected from more than 500 applications. –CONTRIBUTED
Naugatuck High School students Kassandra Fruin and Kaylin Spaulding (fourth from the left) were honored at the Connecticut Association of Schools High School Outstanding Arts Awards Banquet held on April 6 at the Aqua Turf Club in Southington. The CAS Outstanding Arts Awards Banquet annually recognizes two seniors in each CAS member high school for outstanding ability in the performing or visual arts. The students are selected by their schools to receive this honor. The students are pictured receiving their awards with, from left, WJMJ Radio Weekday Morning Host Jerry Kristafer, Bearingstar Insurance Sales Associate Jennifer LaJoie, Jostens Sales Associate Kevin Myjak, and CAS Executive Director Karissa Niehoff. –CONTRIBUTED
