WCAI's Sean Corcoran hosts a roundup of local and regional news with area journalists. Guests include: Anne Brennan of the Cape Cod Times; Nelson Sigelman of the Martha's Vineyard Times; Ed Miller of the Provincetown Banner; Tim Wood of the Cape Cod Chronicle; Joshua Balling of the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror; Sara Brown of the Vineyard Gazette; Sam Houghton of the Mashpee Enterprise and Enterprise Newspapers; and Jim DeArruda of the New Bedford Standard-Times.
Among the stories they discuss this week: Local water resource officials say most of the region's drought problems are in other areas of Massachusetts, not on Cape Cod; a wayward manatee (nicknamed "Sackey" by local media, after it first was spotted in Harwich's Saquaqucket Harbor) was rescued this week in an attempt to bring the animal to warmer waters; a driver pleads not guilty in a fatal hit-and-run accident in Hyannis; shark researchers are at odds over research projects; the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station goes back online after another series of equipment problems; Bourne High School sees significant improvements in Advanced Placement exams; the Dennis Planning Board approves the construction of a house for homeless veterans; an iconic weeping willow tree in Sandwich will be removed; local official hold a forum to discuss a ballot initiative around recreational marijuana; the Vineyard Gazette highlights Martha's Vineyard-related exhibits at the new Smithsonian National Museum of African History and Culture, which opens next week in Washington, DC; Congressman Bill Keating files a bill to clarify the western boundary of the Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge; a Westport used car dealership again finds itself under scrutiny, this time by the attorney general's office; the second-largest preschool on Nantucket is shut down by the state after several incidents; a campground in the National Seashore is in trouble after allegedly clear-cutting land it doesn't even own; Provincetown landlords are surprised by a steep increase in inspection fees, despite the fact the town doesn't do actual inspections; an unkept house on Martha's Vineyard sparks a discussion about the consequences of the islands' housing crisis.
