March 9: Tax Advice, School Board Meeting

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 about local parenting topics. We want your opinions! Please join the discussion by commenting on the article later today.

2. There is an at the from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m today.

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

4. Farmingdale Patch is looking for Whiz Kids to profile on the site. Know a student doing great things in Farmingdale? E-mail amandaf@patch.com

5. There is a tonight at 8 p.m. in the