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News Roundup: Cape Youth Call for Climate Action; Towns Push Back on Vaping

S Junker

WCAI News Director Steve Junker hosts a roundup of some of the top local and regional news of the week, including: students across the Cape region join in a nationwide call for Climate Action; more Cape towns are restricting vape sales; and a member of the Oak Bluffs fire department is killed in Fall River.

This week's guests are WCAI's Eve Zuckoff; Cindy McCormick of the Cape Cod Times; George Brennan of the Martha's Vineyard Times; Tim Wood of the Cape Cod Chronicle; Josh Balling of the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror; Ed Miller of the Provincetown Independent; WCAI's Kathryn Eident and WCAI statehouse reporter Mike Deehan. 

Other stories we talk about include: Suicide hotline calls go unanswered; injunction to be filed to force tribal recall election; insurance system fails young woman from Cataumet; Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge scraps coyote hunting plan; Nantucket wrestles with paying for its nursing home; National Seachore Advisory Commission gets a chance in Congress; and a roundup of Statehouse news. 

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Steve is Managing Editor of News. He came to WCAI in 2007. He also hosts the weekly News Roundup on Friday mornings and produces The Fishing News.