NewsCommunityMultimediaSlideshows Community snapshots By mycitizensnews - September 24, 2016 0 277 The Prospect Women’s Softball League recently finished its 23rd season. The league consisted of five teams this season with women ranging in age from 18 to 60. Team Orange won the league. –CONTRIBUTED The Union City Little League 9-11 All-Star girls softball team recently won the District III championship and was runner-up in the state tournament. Pictured, kneeling from left, Maya Williams, Stephanie Sutherland; standing, Kaylee Massicotte, coach Steve Litke, Christina Roberts, Sydney Crockette, Julianna Sarbieski, Julia Kropo, coach John Bombery, Riley Best, manager Paul Kelly, Felicia Salvati, Avery Crockette, Alyssa Grzeika and Aryn Bombery. –CONTRIBUTED Bill Zembruski, of Boy Scout Troop 138, grills up food during the Harvest Moon Festival on the Naugatuck Green on Sept. 17. –LUKE MARSHALL Hunter Ostuni, 5, of Naugatuck draws a picture during the Harvest Moon Festival on the Naugatuck Green on Sept. 17. –LUKE MARSHALL Boy Scouts, from left, Lucas Patino, Robbie Fanzutti and Nate Gairing from Troop 102 demonstrate how to tie knots during the Harvest Moon Festival on the Naugatuck Green last year. –FILE PHOTO Bryan Curtis, left, and Jim Ruddy, both of Boy Scout Troop 102, prepare fried dough during the Harvest Moon Festival on the Naugatuck Town Green on Sept. 17. –LUKE MARSHALL Boy Scout Troop 258 from Prospect cycled over 12 miles through Newport, R.I. and stayed overnight in the barracks at Fort Adams, which stands at guard at the entrance to Narragansett Bay, Sept. 10 to Sept. 11. Pictured, front row, Brian Kieffer, Nick Bouffard, Nick Christiano, Nate Bouffard, Nicholas Santovasi, Aiden Kennedy, Zach Telesca, Sam Gonzales; back row, Jeff Varesio, James Nelson, Adam Telesca, Hayden Bartlett, Connor Sargeant, Anthony Santovasi and Casey Redd. –CONTRIBUTED Naugatuck Garden Club member Patti Buchanan places a brick that reads ‘Maintained by Naugatuck Garden Club’ presented to the club by Naugatuck Mayoral Aide Ed Carter in the garden bed in front of Town Hall. The garden is one of several sites planted and maintained by the club throughout the borough. –CONTRIBUTED Beacon Falls Lions Club member Jack Betkoski, left, and Lions Club President William Mis, right, present a $3,000 check to Lisa Gerrol, president of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Connecticut Chapter. The funds were raised from the first Jill’s Race For MS, which was sponsored by the club, held in August. The race was named in honor of Betkoski’s sister and former Beacon Falls resident Jill Betkoski, who lost her battle with multiple sclerosis 10 years ago. –CONTRIBUTED Faith Arcuri, an eighth-grader at City Hill Middle School in Naugatuck, recently donated her hair to Wigs 4 Kids. –CONTRIBUTED Volunteer and St. Michael’s Church parishioner Diane Caggiano makes homemade peach shortcake last year during the church’s 57th Annual Village Green Fair on the Naugatuck Green. The annual fair is known for the shortcake. –FILE PHOTO Volunteer Megan Rivers bags homemade donuts Sept. 9 during the 57th Annual Village Green Fair hosted by St. Michael’s Church on the Naugatuck Green. The annual fair featured music, children’s activities, food and household items for sale. –ELIO GUGLIOTTI Volunteer John Rivers makes donuts Sept. 9 during the 57th Annual Village Green Fair hosted by St. Michael’s Church on the Naugatuck Green. The annual fair featured music, children’s activities, food and household items for sale. –ELIO GUGLIOTTI Connecticut’s Traveling Archivist Brian Stevens, right, who is also the archivist and special collections librarian at Western Connecticut State University, looks over a photograph with Naugatuck Historical Society Board of Directors member Marie Galbraith Sept. 2 at the Naugatuck Historical Society on Church Street. Stevens was working with Galbraith on archiving photographs from the Tuttle family and business collection as part of a program sponsored by the Connecticut Historical Society that helps historical societies around the state with proper archiving techniques. –LUKE MARSHALL Pauline Cacace, of Cheshire, prepares to eat a lobster during the Prospect Senior Center’s Lobster Dinner Aug. 30. –LUKE MARSHALL Debbie Mello, of Prospect, pulls the claw off a lobster during a lobster dinner hosted by the Prospect Senior Center Aug. 30. –LUKE MARSHALL Riley Cook, a member of USA Martial Arts in Naugatuck, was recently promoted to Yellow Lion in the Little Ninja class. –CONTRIBUTED Members of USA Martial Arts in Naugatuck were recently promoted. Pricilla Nascimento, Deepak Prakash, Natalia Lizak and Leah Quijano were promoted to 1st Dan Black Belt. Sarah O’Bryan was promoted to 2nd Dan Black Belt. Erik Wrogg and Ben Meleschnig were promoted to 3rd Dan Black Belt. –CONTRIBUTED