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WCAI's Local News Roundup: Great White Off Chatham; Community Reacts to Orlando Shootings

WCAI's Sean Corcoran hosts a discussion of the week's top local news.  His guests include George Brennan from the Cape Cod Times; Sam Houghton of the Mashpee Enterprise; Tim Wood of the Cape Cod Chronicle; Jim DeArruda of the New Bedford Standard-Times; Josh Balling of the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror; Nelson Sigelman of the Martha's Vineyard Times; and Ed Miller of the Provincetown Banner.

Among the stories they discuss this week: Provincetown reacts to last weekend's horrific shooting in Orlando; the state is less certain about having a third traffic bridge to Cape Cod; the faculty at Cape Cod Community College takes a no confidence vote in the college leadership; a plan for a new building to house homeless veterans is controversial; Col. Virginia Doonan becomes the first female fighter wing commander of the 102nd Intelligence Wing; there a new ferry traveling between Woods Hole and the islands; the first great white shark of the season is detected off Chatham; Hyannis officials plan public bathroom checks; New Bedford officials question plans to have freight travel from the islands to the city; efforts are underway to create new fishing lines that are less likely to entangle sea life; a clothing manufacturing company in Mashpee is growing; police are called to a public meeting in Chatham; the police chief in Dartmouth launches federal civil rights suit; and a massive fire damages the Marine Home Center on Nantucket.