WCAI News Director Sean Corcoran hosts a discussion with journalists about the top local news stories of the week. Joining him are: Gwenn Friss of the Cape Cod Times; Jim DeArruda of the New Bedford Standard-Times; Sara Brown of the Vineyard Gazette; Tim Wood of the Cape Cod Chronicle; Sam Houghton of the Mashpee Enterprise; and Nelson Sigelman of the Martha's Vineyard Times.
Among the stories they discuss: a Sandwich fish monger who pleaded guilty to buying stolen oysters is now in another legal battle with his former business partner; the superintendent of schools in Mashpee has asked for a bench trial as he faces misdemeanor trespassing charges; the Brewster Police Department is the first department on Cape Cod to install dashboard cameras; the Massachusetts Maritime Academy will install an underwater turbine to generate electricity and train students; a Nantucket man dies after being run over in a driveway; Mashpee and Nantucket both get good news regarding student testing scores; National Grid faces more than a million dollars in fines related to its handling of natural gas lines on Cape Cod; and HBO releases a new documentary that reports on Cape Cod's heroin problem.