WCAI's Sean Corcoran hosts a roundup of local and regional news with several area journalists. Guests include: Gwenn Friss from the Cape Cod Times; Sara Brown from the Martha's Vineyard Gazette; Tim Wood from the Cape Cod Chronicle; Josh Balling from the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror; Ann Wood from the Provincetown Banner; and Andy Tomolonis from the New Bedford Standard-Times.
Among the stories they talk about: some panels used at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station are at risk for degrading; a new committee is created to give feedback on Pilgrim's decommissioning efforts; a summer food programs expands as child poverty increases on Cape Cod; National Seashore officials move forward with a $1.5 million project to repair a swamp trail; the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe is not out of the casino business after dueling legal rulings; a state audit faults Cape Cod Community College with not doing all it could to protect assets from fraud and theft; Republicans dominate the public access airwaves in Mashpee; a Cape Cod woman sues the National Seashore for its ban on kitesurfing; protestors plan to greet Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump when he comes to Oyster Harbors in Osterville this weekend; the First Family arrives on Martha's Vineyard on Saturday; Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton plans to visit Provincetown in the coming weeks, bringing Cher with her; the town of Chatham is told it needs a new senior center; a new fire station project on Nantucket is sent back to the drawing board; fishing regulators will start counting fish alongside commercial fishermen; there are more white sharks in Wellfleet Harbor than previously thought.