WCAI News Director Sean Corcoran hosts a discussion about the top local news stories of the week with area journalists. Joining Sean this week is George Brennan of the Cape Cod Times; Tim Wood of the Cape Cod Chronicle; Joshua Balling of the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror; Caitlyn Russell of the Register in Dennis-Yarmouth; Jim DeArruda of the New Bedford Standard Times; and Nelson Sigelman of the Martha's Vineyard Times.
Among the stories they discuss this week: the weekend storm took a bite out of beach preservation efforts in Sandwich; the town of Bourne plans to sue its neighbor, Plymouth, over the installation of some land-based wind turbines; the town manager in Mashpee wants the School Committee to move more quickly to decide the fate of the town's schools superintendent; the town of Barnstable tells the county to close its fire training academy after water pollution and other problems are identified; NOAA expands protections of the North Atlantic right whale; a local legislator seeks to ban the over-the-counter supplement "Spice."