Feb. 5: Weekend Activities, Review New Features

Spend your Saturday 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. Get out this weekend- check out our to what's going on around Farmingdale.

2. This week we premiered a new set of features: , , , and . What do you think of them? E-mail amandaf@patch.com

3. Missed a ? Check out the daily roundup of area news that goes up on our site each night at 6 p.m.

4. Farmingdale Patch is looking for to profile every week - volunteers, academics, athletes, specifically all those making a difference in the community.  E-mail editor Amanda Fiscina at amandaf@patch.com if you would like to nominate a youngster.

5. Be entered to win a Nook from Farmingdale Patch by signing up for our daily newsletters. Learn more about the contest .