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A three-day weekend to most students at Hewlett High School is extremely exciting. It’s a chance to catch up on sleep and homework, with extra time to relax. However, for the members of the Youth Board of the Community Chest, it’s more time to volunteer! more

Alison Hagen | 10/16/13

Lawrence resident Nallelly Vergas, 9, rode the Sizzler at the fair.

Fun at the Five Towns Community Chest Fair [Photo gallery]

After being postponed in September due to inclement weather, the annual Five Towns Community Chest Fair began its three days in Andrew J. Parise Cedarhurst Park under sunny skies on Saturday. more

By Jeff Bessen and Ann E. Friedman | 10/12/13

Pia Caifano and karate instructor Dana Smith performed an exercise drill at last year

Come to the Five Towns Community Chest Fair

Five Towns Community Chest will hold its 29th annual fair this weekend, Saturday, Oct. 12, Sunday, Oct. 13 and on Monday, Columbus Day., Oct. 14 in Cedarhurst Park. more

10/9/13

The Five Towns Community Chest 5K is one of the four races that comprise the newly created Southwest Nassau Race Series.

Get your motor running

Do your feet itch for speed? Would you like to run like a cheetah, while supporting important local causes? Then crank up your engines and sign up for the first-ever Southwest Nassau Run Series. more

Adam Stachura | 9/25/13

Arts Below Sunrise is a one-day festival that seeks to promote the Hewlett and Woodmere communities and raise money for the public schools endowment fund. Above, the Toby Tobias Ensemble will perform at the event. From left, Mike Nugent, Cyndi Hazell, Mario Staiano, Toby Tobias and Steve Blatt.

Bringing Hewlett and Woodmere together

Live music, dancers, craft vendors, artists, an outdoor bowling alley, health screenings and food, will be part of the second annual Arts Below Sunrise festival on Sunday beginning at 10 a.m. The musical entertainment starts two hours later for the event that ends at 5 p.m. more

By Jeff Bessen | 9/25/13

Five Towns Community Chest’s 29th annual fair will include rides, games, food, musical talent and an outdoor movie.

Community Chest fair postponed

At this year’s Five Towns Community Chest Fair, attendees can look forward to new food vendors, a dog rescue company, who will have animals up for adoption, and a sukkah for Orthodox fair goers, according to Fair Chairman Eric Keslowitz. more

By Ann Friedman | 9/18/13

The Inwood 5K, which is in its 20th year, will be held on Oct. 13., is one of the four races of the newly created Southwest Nassau Run series.

Running to strengthen their communities

Four community-oriented races that have been run separately during the fall will now be tied together in the newly established Southwest Nassau Run Series, which will include the Malverne Run for Education on Oct. 6, the Inwood 5K on Oct. 13, the Five Towns Community Chest 5k Run/Walk on Oct. 20 and the Lynbrook Fly with the Owls 4-mile Run/Walk on Nov. 16. more

By Jeff Bessen | 9/4/13

Five Towns Learning Center and Five Towns Community Chest board members and staff held a barbecue to celebrate repairs made to the center after Hurricane Sandy.

Learning center in Inwood celebrates Sandy recovery

Inwood-based Five Towns Early Learning Center and Five Towns Community Chest in Woodmere joined together on July 29, as staff and board members of both civic organizations toured the refurbished premises of the Early Learning Center. The educational facility sustained severe damage during Hurricane Sandy. more

By Yitzchak Carroll | 8/21/13

Adelphi University’s Community Fellows summer internship program connects students with nonprofit organizations. Intern Argyro Pagiavlas, left, with Five Towns Early Learning Center Executive Director Pepper Robinson and kids.

From the classroom to the office

Often students learn just as much, if not more, from work experience as they do in the classroom, and that approach is what propels Adelphi University’s Community Fellows program. more

By Jason Brendler and Dana Pearl | 8/14/13

Five Towns Community Chest Executive Director Bob Block, left, and Inwood Civic Association Vice President Pete Sobol, two of the three co-chairs of the New York Rising regional planning committee for the Five Towns, met with Gov. Andrew Cuomo at the Capitol last month.

‘We’re in desperate need of money’

The Five Towns are eligible for $27.6 million of the more than $750 million in federal funds being allocated to communities throughout New York state as part of the post-Hurricane Sandy New York Rising Community Reconstruction program announced on July 18 by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. more

By Ann Friedman | 7/31/13

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