Members of the Woodland Regional High School Best Buddies chapter pose for a picture before the 2016 WRHS Best Buddies Prom April 30. The prom, which took place at Lakeview Lodge at Veteran’s Memorial Park in Bethany, was organized by Woodland senior Paige Brown. –CONTRIBUTED
Boy Scout Troop 258 from Prospect camped out at Camp Henderson near Cooperstown, N.Y., in April. The trip included hiking at Robert V. Riddell State Park in Oneonta, N.Y., and visits to the Baseball Hall of Fame and Howe Caverns. Pictured, front row from left Nicholas Santovasi, Nick Christiano, Nathan Bouffard, Matt Bryant, Aiden Kennedy, Rjay Strumski; middle row from left, Greg Peach, Joseph DeDomenico, Brian Kiefer, Michael Molinari, Casey Redd, Brendan Poudrier, Jenn Bryant; back row from left, Andrew Bryant, Jacob Marks, James Nelson, Connor Sargent, Gabe Corales, Sebastian Corales, Zach Telesca, Hayden Bartlett and Bailey Williams. –CONTRIBUTED
U.S. Army Sgt. Korean Treadwell, left, celebrates as he moves even with June Ottowell in a ‘horse’ race during the Naugatuck Senior Center’s annual Kentucky Derby Day May 6. The event featured races in which members of the center and volunteers acted as ‘horses’ and moved closer to the finish line with a roll of the dice. –ELIO GUGLIOTTI
Kaitlyn Syrowsky, of Beacon Falls, organized a spring fundraiser walk at the Pent Road Recreation Complex in Beacon Falls April 9 to benefit the Connecticut Humane Society. She received donations from Big Y and Julia’s Bakery for water and pastries for the day. The event raised over $300. Syrowky, an eighth-grade student at Long River Middle School, received a private tour of the society’s facility in Newington when she presented them with the money collected. –CONTRIBUTED
Prospect Recreation Director Christopher Moffo throws out the first pitch during the Prospect Little League’s opening day ceremony May 14 in Prospect. The Little League is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. –ELIO GUGLIOTTI
Ina Kerus and her son, Anthony Barabanov, 4, of Naugatuck, pick out a prize during the Coleman Brothers Carnival May 19 in Naugatuck. The carnival was sponsored by the Naugatuck Education Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides grants for education programs in borough schools that aren’t funded through the annual school budget. A portion of the proceeds from the carnival went to the NEF. –ELIO GUGLIOTTI
Naugatuck residents Sophia Boucher, a senior at Naugatuck High School, and Zachary Mason, a senior at Holy Cross High School (pictured with his father), were among 13 local high school seniors to earn the Trumbull-Porter Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution school’s Good Citizens Award. The award is intended to encourage and reward the qualities of good citizenship. Each senior class student selected as the school’s DAR Good Citizen must have the qualities of dependability, service, leadership and patriotism to an outstanding degree. Each award winner received a DAR Good Citizen pin, a certificate, an American flag and a small monetary stipend. –CONTRIBUTED
Naugatuck Mayoral Aide Ed Carter rolls the dice during the Naugatuck Senior Center’s annual Kentucky Derby Day May 6. The event featured a ‘horse’ race in which members of the center and volunteers acted as ‘horses’ and moved closer to the finish line with a roll of the dice. –ELIO GUGLIOTTI
The Prospect Little League Red Sox recite the Little League pledge during the league’s opening day ceremony May 14 in Prospect. The Little League is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. –ELIO GUGLIOTTI
Naugatuck High School students Anthony Conner and Faith Tuscano were honored April 5 at the Connecticut Association of Schools (CAS) High School Outstanding Arts Awards Banquet at the Aqua Turf in Southington. The banquet annually recognizes two seniors in each high school for their outstanding ability in the performing or visual arts. Pictured, from left, Bearingstar Insurance representative Jennifer Lajoie, educator, author and keynote speaker Jonathan Gilman, Tuscano, Conner, Jostens representative Erika Metevier, Connecticut Department of Education Arts Consultant Jackie Coleman, and CAS Executive Director Karissa Niehoff. –CONTRIBUTED
The Green Machine won Prospect’s Friday Night Men’s League. The team, which went 8-1 in the regular season, beat The Clams in the best of three playoff series. Pictured, from left, Nick Clemente, Chris Mondak, Bez Murtishi, Jayson Douthwright, Emmett O’Connor, Ryan Smith, Tom Boulay and Rob Fourtier. –CONTRIBUTED
Prospect Little League President Larry Fitzgerald speaks during the league’s opening day ceremony May 14 in Prospect. The Little League is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. –ELIO GUGLIOTTI
Sensei Logan Bond, from the Bond School of Self Defense in Naugatuck, demonstrates martial arts on the Naugatuck Green May 21 during the Lavender Ribbon Fair. The fair was put on by Naugatuck High School students Cassidy Baranowski and Emily Tribanas as their civic action project to raise money for the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. In addition to the martial arts demonstration the fair featured vendors, games and raffles. The fair raised over $2,600 and donations are still being accepted. For more information or to donate, email lavenderribbonfair@gmail.com. –LUKE MARSHALL
Justin Jones, an employee of the Ed the Treeman, hangs a flag on a utility pole along Route 69 in Prospect May 17. The flags were put on utility poles throughout the center of town along routes 69 and 68. The display, which has been put up every year since 2012 to honor current and former military members, is sponsored by the Prospect Flag Fund. –LUKE MARSHALL
Aliyana Aspipi, 5, of Naugatuck, bounces around on a trampoline during the Coleman Brothers Carnival May 19 in Naugatuck. The carnival was sponsored by the Naugatuck Education Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides grants for education programs in borough schools that aren’t funded through the annual school budget. A portion of the proceeds from the carnival went to the NEF. –ELIO GUGLIOTTI
Volunteers from Comcast NBCUniversal helped clean up at the Naugatuck YMCA on April 30 as part of the 15th annual Comcast Cares Day. Volunteers cleaned, landscaped and painted at the YMCA. –CONTRIBUTED
Darien High School Technology and Engineering Education Department Coordinator Jeromy Nelson, of Naugatuck, received the Connecticut Technology Education and Engineering Teacher of the Year award from the International Technology and Engineering Education Association. Neslon was honored as one of 30 teachers from across the U.S. to receive a Teacher Excellence Award recently during the association’s annual conference in Washington D.C. –CONTRIBUTED
Jazmine Wright, 3, of Naugatuck rides the carousel with her father, Darrius Wright, during the Coleman Brothers Carnival May 19 in Naugatuck. The carnival was sponsored by the Naugatuck Education Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides grants for education programs in borough schools that aren’t funded through the annual school budget. A portion of the proceeds from the carnival went to the NEF. –ELIO GUGLIOTTI
