5 Things: Knights of Columbus Offer Scholarship

Remember that nice, relaxing weekend you just had? It's over. Snap out of it.

Welcome to Monday. To work. To responsibility. To getting mad at your boss.

Ugh. Now Patch is even depressed. While we wipe our eyes, read 5 Things You Need to Know Today.

1. You Need to Know About a Scholarship Contest: The St. Jude's Knights of Columbus is offering a scholarship to the student, who must be a practicing Catholic, who writes the best 250-word essay on the subject: "What My Catholic Faith Means to Me." Call Scott Cawood at (908) 684-2467, Richard Bunch at (973) 770-3014 or ROy Arrighi at (973) 398-2192 to submit the essay. Deadline is June 12.
2. You Need to Know About Court: Hopatcong's municipal court begins at 7 p.m. at . Recently, the borough voted to share a municipal court with Stanhope. Borough Administrator Bob Elia told Patch the municipalities are working out the contract's final details, and it should be finished in the coming days.
3. You Need to Know About the Talking it Out: Hopatcong's community dispute committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. at borough hall. Often, judges will send complaints to the committee with the hopes of avoiding clogging up courts and forcing residents to pay court costs.
4. You Need to Know About Spring Sports Awards: Hopatcong High School's top athletes will receive Most Valuable Player and Most Improved Player awards at the auditorium. Click here for winter awards photos. And here for fall awards photos.
5. You Need to Know About Baseball: The boys had a tremendous season, reaching North 1, Group 2 playoffs as a No. 3 seed before getting bounced in the first round by Pequannock. The Chiefs will play their season's last game at 4 p.m. at home on Tuesday. Four seniors—Joe Lobue, Rob Nadrowski, D.J. Ross and Josh Bishop—will each finish their careers with around 100 hits.