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WCAI's Local News Roundup: Local Fisherman Swept Overboard; Hyannis Faces Water Restrictions

WCAI's Sean Corcoran hosts a discussion of the week's top local news.  His guests include Geoff Spillane from the Cape Cod Times; Sam Houghton of the Mashpee Enterprise; Sara Brown of the Martha's Vineyard Gazette; Tim Wood of the Cape Cod Chronicle; Jim DeArruda of the New Bedford Standard-Times; Josh Balling of the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror; Nelson Sigelman of the Martha's Vineyard Times; and Ann Wood of the Provincetown Banner.

Among the stories they discuss this week: Martha's Vineyard fisherman Luke Gurney was swept overboard after getting entangled in netting; water restrictions are proposed in Hyannis; six community service officers are hired to keep an eye on Main Street during the summer; a resident's garden is expected to be destroyed as a utility trims trees; the governor wades in on a potential European ban on American lobsters; Cape Cod Community College deals with questions about the school's leadership; an Acushnet man is held after allegedly stealing from a disabled Marine Corps. veteran and his family; a traditional Hawaiian sailing vessel is set to arrive on Martha's Vineyard and in Woods Hole; a Provincetown resident is facing fines for allegedly asking two workers remove beach grass; municipal officials are set to wade in on a party in Freetown this past weekend that attracted more than 1,000 guests.

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