WCAI News Director Sean Corcoran hosts a discussion about the top local news stories of the week. Joining him are Anne Brennan of the Cape Cod Times; Jim DeArruda at the New Bedford Standard-Times; Joshua Balling of the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror; Tim Wood of the Cape Cod Chronicle; and Caitlin Russell of The Register (Dennis-Yarmouth).
Among the stories they discuss this week: Sandwich selectmen go to Special Town Meeting with a request for more funding to head-off erosion; a Mashpee selectman criticizes the town's School Committee's response to allegations that the superintendent of schools barged into a student's home uninvited and rifled through her stuff; six current or former Bourne police officers, as well as a Barnstable County deputy sheriff and three state troopers receive heroism medals; Provincetown voters approve $7.3 million in renovations to the town's former high school building; Yarmouth gets word from the attorney general's office that a bylaw Town Meeting passed earlier this year is not legal; and parents and citizens from two communities push back when changes are proposed to local Halloween parades.