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On Monday the Mansion House hosted a wheat and gluten workshop with nutrition coach Griffin Hughes. Ms. Hughes will continue leading monthly health discussions based on what workshop attendees want to know more about. Classes are free to members of the hotel’s health club and are $12 for walk-ins.
The next orientation night to become an EMT is Jan. 10 to be held at the Tisbury Emergency Services Facility. Classes will run from January to early April, meeting Fridays from 6 to 10 p.m. and Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The cost for the class is $1,200, but if accepted for sponsorship through Island ambulance services, the tuition may be paid in exchange for a commitment of typically four shifts a month for a year.
There could be as many as 592 pipes playing at the West Tisbury Congregational Church on Sunday, Dec. 16, at the 50th anniversary celebration of the church organ beginning at 3 p.m. And among those in the audience will be the man who built the organ, Fritz Noack, of Noack Organ Company, now located in Georgetown. Mr. Noack was 25 years old then and this was his fourth original organ.
Bay scallops are again being shipped to the mainland after a slowdown in the market two weeks ago. On Nov. 30, several local handlers of wholesale seafood reported having difficulty finding markets on the mainland, with some shellfishermen told to stay out of the waters until demand increased.
As of last week, lines to the mainland had been reopened.
After five years of planning, construction and a complicated move, the county communications center has begun operations at its new location in the basement of the community corrections center at the airport.
The changeover took place last Thursday, Dec. 6, and included help from Barnstable County Sheriffs department communication center, according to sheriff Michael A. McCormack.
The $1.5 million project, funded mostly by state grants, brings the center into the digital age, the sheriff said. The facility handles thousands of calls a year.
Victoria Towers-DiStefano of Wayland and Archibald Hovanesian Jr. of New Orleans, La., announce the engagement of their daughter Lindsay L. Hovanesian, to H. Trevor Harlow, son of Ellen Drew Harlow and Harold G. Harlow of Litchfield, Conn.