Daily 5: Put on Your Scholarship-Writing Hat!

1. A slight chance of showers today, continuing into the evening. Mostly, it will be cloudy, with a high in the mid-60s.

2. The RockTenn Company (formally Smurfit-Stone), will award two merit-based, $1,000 scholarships this year to outstanding science and math students who plan to enter the field of engineering. Deadline to apply is May 7. So get cracking! Click here for details.

3. Two more scholarships also are up for grabs:

• MHSAA Scholarship - $200: to a graduating senior of Montville High School, planning to continue his/her education in an accredited two or four year, technical college, university or post-secondary institution.
• MHS Alumni Parent Scholarship - $300: to a son or daughter of an MHS alumnus, graduating from any accredited high school, planning to continue his/her education in an accredited two or four year, technical college, university or post-secondary institution.

For more info, including criteria and how to apply, click here.

4. Cub Scout Pack 67 will have a spring recruitment booth at the Child Identification program sponsored by the Oxoboxo Lodge of Masons. The event is on Saturday at Fair Oaks. For info, click here!

5. On this day in 1802, Washington, DC, was incorporated as a city.

Thought for the day, from Happy Publishing

"Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good." - E Friedman