WCAI's Sean Corcoran hosts a roundup of local and regional news.
Joining Sean this week are journalists Patrick Cassidy of the Cape Cod Times; Sara Brown of the Martha's Vineyard Gazette; Tim Wood of the Cape Cod Chronicle; Joshua Balling of the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror; Ann Wood of the Provincetown Banner; Jim DeArruda of the New Bedford Standard Times; and Nelson Sigelman of the Martha's Vineyard Times.
Among the stories they discuss: Rep. Brian Mannal resigns from politics and drops out of the race for a state senate seat; Gov. Charlie Baker shakes up the Fisheries Commission; an investigation is underway at the Mashpee Police Department into the use of a stun gun on a suspect as he was sitting in a car; a South Yarmouth nursing home faces fines and a potential loss of funding after an incident when a resident went into cardiac arrest; a Hyannis water advisory remains in effect; Falmouth's alcohol board suspends alcohol service at the Cape Verdean Club; transportation officials host summit on needs of older residents; Eastham chooses a developer for a 10-acre, affordable housing site; the Boy Scouts prepare for a $1.2 million expansion in Yarmouthport; a new ferry, the Woods Hole, makes her debut next week; shark season should begin soon, and there's a new app to help everyone keep track; it's Back to the Future week in Chatham; genetically-altered super mice could combat Lyme disease on Nantucket; Secretary of State John Kerry's Nantucket home is up for sale; the CEO of Outer Cape Health Services is out; the federal government steps in to support the Gay Head-Aquinnah tribe's efforts to bring gambling to Martha's Vineyard; and a pair of orphaned bobcat kittens come to New Bedford's Buttonwood Zoo.