Community snapshots

Members of Prospect Boy Scout Troop 258 display several of the American Flags they recently prepared to display throughout town. In April nearly 30 members of Prospect Troop 258 spent an evening preparing over 80 American flags for display along Prospect’s main roads. The boys attached flags to poles, gluing clips and adding reinforcing cable ties to help the flags stay flying in the heavy winds throughout town. The American flags are funded through the Prospect Flag Fund, established last year by resident Robert Hiscox. The scouts, along with the help of Ed Bashe of Ed the Tree Man, and Jack Geary and Paul Ricchezza of Cutting Edge Signs and Shirts helped maintain and display over 100 flags throughout town last year. These same people will be working to get the flags out again prior to this year’s Memorial Day Parade. Joe Longo III, a senior from Sacred Heart High School in Waterbury, put up over 80 of the flags May 3 as part of his community service project graduation requirements. He was assisted with a bucket truck from J and T Electrical Contractors of Waterbury. The flags honoring all members of our military past and present will be displayed throughout the spring and summer months. Donations to the Prospect Flag Fund may be sent directly to Town Hall where a separate account is maintained to replace flags and upgrade the display. –CONTRIBUTED

State representatives David Labriola, right, and Rosa Rebimbas, second from right, ask Salem School fourth-grader James Jordan, 9, left and his mother, Colleen, how they eat their Oreo cookies during a fourth-grade Math Night hosted by Naugatuck public schools Math Consultant Kim Jones at City Hill Middle School in Naugatuck April 25. The representatives, who explained how math impacts the legislative process with the counting of votes to pass bills, used Oreos to determine how Naugatuck’s fourth-graders eat their cookies. After voting closed, ‘eat the cookie first’ slightly edged out ‘eat the cream first’ and ‘another way’ for the win. –CONTRIBUTED

Naugatuck resident Natalie Johnson, front right, receives the Pam Bogert Memorial Award for her expressive photography work from Madison Sumpf, Bogert’s daughter, front left, April 25 during the Naugatuck Historical Society’s 5th Annual Celebration of Art at the museum on Water Street in Naugatuck. This year’s show was dedicated to Bogert, a friend of the society. Four top awards were given to Irene Benardzyk, Kiki Michalek, Stephen Sherwood and Roberta Danza. The art work was judged by Tony Falcone, back right, Anne Siefert, back center, and Marianna Hanley. –CONTRIBUTED