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The Yoga Collective is in the giving mood and is offering a week of free yoga to all new students. The free classes are from Dec. 16 to 22 and are unlimited. Now is the time to find out what all the fuss is about and which type of yoga — Anusara, Vinyasa, flow, power — is right for you.
The Martha’s Vineyard Youth Hockey winter season is underway.
Last weekend, the Peewees played three games, hosting Gateway for a double header on Saturday and Lower Cape Fancy the next day. The team started out strong against Gateway, shutting out their opponents 8-0 in the first game.The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) will sponsor a free educational course for families of people diagnosed with a serious mental illness. The course will begin Wednesday, Jan. 9 at 6:30 p.m. Twelve weekly two and a half hour classes will cover information about schizophrenia, the affective disorders (bipolar disease and major depression), obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety disorders.
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.
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.
With the New England groundfishery now a bona fide federal disaster, fisheries managers are preparing to make drastic cuts to future allotments for cod and yellowtail flounder before the end of the year.
On Dec. 20 the New England Fishery Management Council will meet in Wakefield and is expected to cut up to 80 per cent of fishing allotments for cod and yellowtail flounder for the coming year. If they are approved, the cuts will take effect May 1, 2013.