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Local news and notes from the seven villages of Barnstable

If your child has a love for baseball, here is a chance for them to become a batboy or batgirl for the Wareham Gatemen.

2 ponds in Barnstable closed to swimming as testing continues.

Cynthia Stead This weekend, a lot of us will be visiting relatives. But the visits will be quiet ones. We left at six in the morning, like pioneers from the asphalt three-deckers of Worcester to the lakes and forests and hills in Maine. There was no Route 495, there wasn’t even the Eisenhower Interstate system, so the drive took all day. My brother and I were loaded into the backseat of the Country Squire station wagon, complete with metal faux-wood side panels, with our grandmother in between us to keep the peace during the seven hour drive for Memorial Day. I got to hold the geraniums.

FALMOUTH — If Virginia Valiela had an opinion about something and started a conversation with you, you'd see her way by the end of it.  "She used her knowledge to influence others for the better,” said Mimi McConnell, a friend of Valiela's and a fellow environmentalist.   Valiela, 79, a longtime public servant and environmental advocate, died May 15 from cancer.  She spent more than 50 years serving the town of Falmouth, pushing forward a variety of community projects that are still in use today — from the town’s recycling program to its wastewater management plan.  “Her dedic...