April 6: Family Forum, Budget Workshop

Spend your Wednesday with the activities and news in this "5 Things" column, where you will find five essential pieces of information you need to know each day, like events happening or local topics being covered on the site.

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1. Calling all : Every Wednesday at 1 p.m. we host a discussion called Family Forum (our new name for Moms Talk) about local parenting topics. We want your opinions. Please join the discussion by commenting on the article later today.

2. There is a at from 7:30 a.m-2:30 p.m.

3. We're compiling a list of the that make Farmingdale unique. Did you miss our yesterday?

4. There is a tonight at 8 p.m. at .

5. Help Farmingdale win Patch's Hop Into Spring Sweepstakes. Enter here for our town to win a free screening of the new movie Hop, a chance to meet the characters and an additional $500.