Steve Junker
Managing Editor of NewsSteve Junker is Managing Editor of News at CAI.
Steve oversees CAI’s award-winning newsroom, including on-air and digital news coverage.
He joined the radio station in 2007. His reporting has been recognized with awards from the Associated Press and the Murrow Awards. He hosts a live hour-long weekly program, The Local News Roundup, in which he speaks with editors and reporters from across the region about the week’s biggest stories. And he produces the weekly seasonal report on Cape Cod fishing action, The Fishing News.
A writer, a fisherman, an occasional boat builder, a recovering musician, a longtime chicken rancher, a beekeeper... Steve keeps busy in Woods Hole, where he lives with his wife and two children.
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This week: The Barnstable Sheriff is changing operations at the County jail. The Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce has a suggestion for making the new Cape bridges a lot cheaper: how about a couple of low, causeway-style bridges — and let the big boats worry about themselves? And a new health care tower hits a construction milestone in Hyannis.
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This week: It’s last call for jumping off the old Sandwich boardwalk. Meanwhile, a group is racing to save an iconic modernist Wellfleet house from demolition. And, you can now track rescued sea turtles online.
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This week: Replacing the two Cape bridges just got a little more expensive... like, only just another half a billion dollars more expensive. Meanwhile, the panel on the decommissioning of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant is having some decorum issues. And, it’s orange shirt day today. We’ll tell you what that commemorates.
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Local anglers are putting away the sun shirts and flip-flops and happily reaching for the layers of fleece. From gator blues to tricky tog, fall-weather fishing is something to look forward to.
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It's a fish with a Hawaiian name—so what's it doing in Cape Cod inshore waters? Also known as a dolphinfish, it makes good eating. And this summer has been marked by occasional reports of mahi in Nantucket Sound and catches from at least one beach.
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This week: Many Cape businesses are applauding a move to let migrants into the workforce, calling it an answer to the Cape’s labor shortage. Meanwhile, $82 million is headed to saving right whales. And a plan for a new senior center in Chatham dies at the finish line, as a majority vote still isn’t enough.
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This week: Hurricane Lee is passing to the east, bringing high winds and pounding surf. Also: Yarmouth residents react to the state putting families into emergency shelter at a motel. And Provincetown is weighing limits on short-term rentals.
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Big storms like Hurricane Lee can re-shuffle the fish in local waters. For anglers, it's an enticing prospect, particularly as we approach that peak seasonal moment known as "the fall run."
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It’s a five-week fishing tournament with a long history. And this year more than 3000 anglers will come out to compete on the island.
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Around here, northern puffers are mostly known as an accidental curiosity: a fish occasionally caught when you're looking for something else, and — unlike any other fish — it blows up like a balloon. But don't throw it back that quick! They're also tasty.