WCAI's Sean Corcoran hosts a discussion about the week's top local news. His guests include journalists Cindy McCormick of the Cape Cod Times; Sara Brown of the Martha's Vineyard Gazette; Tim Wood of the Cape Cod Chronicle; Jim DeArruda of the New Bedford Standard-Times; Joshua Balling of the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror; Nelson Sigelman of the Martha's Vineyard Times; and Ann Wood of the Provincetown Banner.
Among the stories they discuss this week: a Fourth of July beach party on Nantucket was significantly less wild this year than officials feared; a judge rules that a recorded interview between Nantucket police and a serial-rape suspect is not admissible in court; two Steamship Authority ferries collide, and no one is injured; a dead fin whale has washed up on Martha's Vineyard; a group plans to fundraise legal funds in order to battle herbicide spraying on Cape Cod; a new shark app allows people to report shark sightings; Medicare cuts affect oxygen supplies and potentially hospital stays; a local nursing home is fined after a federal investigation; the NRC finds that relays controlling safety valves at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station were more than a decade out of date; after losing their church to arson, parishioners at Cape Cod Bible Alliance Church reopen their church; traffic improvements on I-195 are expected to ease the community near New Bedford and potentially Fall River; the town of Chatham and the Chatham Bars Inn are at odds over the use of a former bowling alley.