On today's program C.L. talks about mid-summer fertilizing, the Cape Cod Hydrangea Festival, and takes listener calls about perennial plants, July plant care, and the growth of trees.

A review of the week's local headlines with our region's leading journalists.

This week on the Fishing News, CAI's John Basile talks with Kevin Blinkoff of On The Water magazine about changes in the places anglers are looking for striped bass, which are still plentiful in local waters. The Monomoy Rips are a good place to find striped bass in mid-July.

A project that records stories about the small, true things in the lives of students.

Garlic scapes are in season at the Truro Farmers Market, and there are so many good ways to cook them.

NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with Ariane Tabatabai, Vice President of Research, Security and Defense, at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, about developments in the war between the U.S. and Iran.

When Bill Hillmann was 19 years old, he read Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. That book inspired him to pursue two dreams: a career in literature and to run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain.

People are reading fewer and fewer books. The Atlantic's Rose Horowitch discusses what a post-literate world might look like.