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WCAI's Local News Roundup: Immigrant Arrest on Vineyard; $1.1 million Bathhouse Proposal in Dennis

Massachusetts Maritime Academy

WCAI's Sean Corcoran hosts a roundup of local stories with journalists from across the region. Joining Sean this week are Patrick Cassidy of the Cape Cod Times; Sara Brown of the Vineyard Gazette; Tim Wood of the Cape Cod Chronicle; Jim DeArruda of the New Bedford Standard Times; Ann Wood of the Provincetown Banner; and Barry Stringfellow of the Martha's Vineyard Times.

Among the stories they discuss this week: restaurants in Yarmouth are not pleased with a plan to publicize health inspection reports; Cotuit residents push back against a solar farm; surprising local officials; the Massachusetts Maritime Academy requests student housing proposals in downtown Bourne; a $1 million bathhouse is proposed at Mayflower Beach in Dennis, and it would be shaped like a ship; Falmouth voters will consider expanding the room tax; the Eastham Zoning Board rejects one affordable housing project but approves another; Eastham's long-time town administrator retires; officials consider equipping balloons with cameras in order to spot sharks; an immigration arrest on Martha's Vineyard raises fears in the immigrant community; Monomoy High School drops its government graduation requirement; a report on PCBs and the Acushnet River; cruise ships return to Provincetown and stay longer; a new contractor will take over the delay-plagued Menemsha dredge project; a proposed CVS in Provincetown will first have to make its way through the regional Cape Cod Commission.

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