WCAI News Director Sean Corcoran is joined by regional news reporters and editors to discuss the top local stories of the week on the Cape, the Coast and the Islands. Joining Sean this week is Patrick Cassidy of the Cape Cod Times; Tim Wood of the Cape Cod Chronicle; Joshua Balling of the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror; Sally Rose of the Provincetown Banner; Jim DeArruda of the New Bedford Standard Times; Geoff Spillane of the Mashpee Enterprise; and Nelson Siegleman of the Martha's Vineyard Times.
Among the stories discussed this week: the Cape Wind project signs a lease for a construction and staging area in New Bedford; the construction of a new Stop and Shop on Nantucket continues to move forward; a Provincetown dune shack has a new energy source; the mayor of Fall River is accused of intimidating a city councilor; Martha's Vineyard Hospital is adding a walk-in clinic; there's big controversy over a spit of land in Eastham and Orleans; police say Cape Cod police departments have not been "militarized"; West Nile virus is found in a Falmouth mosquito; and a roadside display in Centerville is being shutdown.