A look at some of the week's top news with local journalists George Brennan of the Cape Cod Times; Tim Wood of the Cape Cod Chronicle; Joshua Balling of the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror; Sally Rose of the Provincetown Banner; and Nelson Sigelman of the Martha's Vineyard Times.
Among the stories we talk about: an effort to ban a new painkiller is meeting resistance from its drug maker; a plan has been crafted to save the beach at Town Neck in Sandwich; and a bridge on Route 6 will be named for a local Navy Seal who was killed in Afghanistan.