WCAI's Sean Corcoran hosts a roundup of local and regional news with area journalists. Guests include: Sean Driscoll of the Cape Cod Times; Nelson Sigelman of the Martha's Vineyard Times; Tim Wood of the Cape Cod Chronicle; Brian Tarcy of CapeCodWave.com; and Sara Brown of the Vineyard Gazette.
Among the stories they discuss this week: state and local authorities close Wellfleet shellfish beds and recall harvested oysters after more than a dozen people get sick from a Norovirus; a new state law paves the way for the certification of sober homes; states close shellfish beds along Nantucket Sound after an unprecedented phytoplankton bloom; a fire in Sagamore leaves more than a dozen people without housing; Falmouth refuses to release drafts of a report about a town dispatch center; a large cruise ship strikes the railroad bridge; the pregnant manatee captured off Cape Cod will be moved to Florida on Tuesday; local Republican candidates for office discuss whether they'll support GOP nominee Donald Trump; voters in Mashpee, Bourne and Dennis, among other communities, head to Town Meeting next week; long-time Cape Cod Times sports editor Bill Higgins retires; a food pantry reopens at Cape Cod Community College; former Mashpee schools superintendent Brian Hyde is called before the Mashpee Board of Health; there's an effort underway on Martha's Vineyard to assist the island nation of Haiti, which was hit hard by Hurricane Matthew; accidents highlight the dangers of the shifting sands of Chatham Bar; at its 200-year anniversary, there are fewer and fewer cranberry bogs being harvested in Harwich; the Mill Brook in Chilmark-Tisbury logs record high temperatures.
