WCAI’s Sean Corcoran hosts the Friday News Roundup. His guests include Geoff Spillane of the Cape Cod Times; Tim Wood of the Cape Cod Chronicle; Jim DeArruda of the New Bedford Standard-Times; Sara Brown of the Martha's Vineyard Gazette; Ann Wood with the Provincetown Banner; and Bill Chaisson of the Martha’s Vineyard Times.
Among the stories discuss this week: Sean and his guests dig deep into the election results, focusing on local and regional races; journalists discuss the individual ballot questions and how Cape and Island communities voted; communities reacted strongly to the passage of recreational marijuana; officials are searching for three fishermen who went missing on Election Day; shark researchers remain at odds on methodology; the Marine Biological Laboratory will continue a partnership with Brown University despite declining spending; a Martha's Vineyard nonprofit receives the gift of a horse farm; the Chatham Coast Guard is looking to buy a shallow-draft boat to help it deal with the Chatham Bar; a replacement building for Cape Cod Tech could cost $150 million; a New Bedford immigration center reports receiving a flood of calls from immigrants concerned about President-elect Donald Trump; the East End of Commercial Street in Provincetown is dug up for street work; the governor signs a law creating a housing rental trust in Provincetown; shellfish season is open in Truro; the Rural Scholars program of UMass Medical School comes to the Vineyard to look at drug-use statistics.