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WCAI's Local News Roundup: Nuclear Reactor Shutdown, Again; Primary Results; Good News for Whales

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WCAI's Sean Corcoran hosts a roundup of local and regional news with area journalists. Guests include: George 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 Martha's Vineyard Gazette; and Jim DeArruda of the New Bedford Standard-Times.

Among the stories they discuss this week: Primary election results are in, and there are a lot of new, young faces among the winners; Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station is shutdown because of a valve malfunction; Army Sgt. Mark Vecchione, who was killed in Iraq, is honored in Eastham; a man intentionally drove off the lookout deck at the Cape Cod Canal; the region's humpback whale population rebounds; a former Mashpee school administrator sues the school department; there's a new CEO at Outer Cape Health Services, and she is planning changes in the group's capital plan; the Woods Hole drawbridge tender is exonerated; the director of the Woods Hole Historical Museum is retiring after 35 years at the helm; changes are on the way for state-administered community development grants, causing consternation in some towns; Chatham's effort to digitize the town permitting process remains spotty; offshore wind developers meet in New Bedford; plans are still being crafted for commuter rail on the South Coast; the somewhat-secretive Beachcombers Club in Provincetown celebrates its 100-year anniversary with a town-wide party; Nantucket took the brunt of this week's storm; a proposal that would have some Tisbury residents install new, state-of-the-art septic systems would cost homeowners thousands of dollars; and the Oak Bluffs Water District continues its efforts to create a solar farm in a heavily-wooded site off Barnes Road.

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