WCAI's Sean Corcoran hosts a roundup of local and regional news with several area journalists. Guests include: Patrick Cassidy from the Cape Cod Times; Sara Brown from the Martha's Vineyard Gazette; Nelson Sigelman of the Martha's Vineyard Times; Ed Miller from the Provincetown Banner; Tim Wood of the Cape Cod Chronicle; Joshua Balling of the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror; and Jim DeArruda from the New Bedford Standard-Times.
Among the stories they discuss this week: the state drops undersized quahog sales from new rules; offshore wind developers are hard at work in New Bedford; big plans for the downtown waterfront on Nantucket; the Steamship Authority works through design flaws with its new $41 million freight/passenger boat; Gov. Charlie Baker approves a bill that compels insurance companies to cover medical procedures related to a 1990s HIV/AIDS drug that went terribly wrong; Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station to shut down for valve repair; pollution problems at fire training area continue to plague the town and county of Barnstable; a major algae bloom outbreak in Cotuit and Osterville; mosquitos test positive for West Nile Virus; survey shows high school drug and alcohol use down in Falmouth; farmers feeling the drought; the Powassan virus may contribute to long-term Lyme symptoms.