WCAI's Sean Corcoran hosts a roundup of local and regional news with area journalists. Guests this week include: Gwenn Friss of 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; Joshua Balling of the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror; Ed Miller of the Provincetown Banner; and Bill Chaisson of the Martha's Vineyard Times.
Among the stories they discuss this week: efforts are underway to rescue a local wildlife center that is set to close; two former employees of the Buzzards Bay Water District receive probation after pleading guilty to stealing nearly $200,000 to buy drugs; Falmouth selectmen hesitate to support a medical marijuana store in an area of town zoned for medical marijuana; a former suspect in a series of arson cases in Provincetown files a suit alleging, among other things, libel; a manatee rescued off Cape Cod is released in Florida; three young Cape Cod men die in a tragic car accident; a man charged in a brutal home invasion receives a 12-year prison term; thousands of Christmas gifts are lost in a fire on Joint Base Cape Cod; a popular Halloween-themed maze closes in Yarmouth; the business Pie in the Sky in Woods Hole will close for reconstruction; Mashpee selectmen consider privatizing the Mashpee Fire Department; Stop and Shop in Edgartown looks to expand; efforts are underway to purchase private land in downtown Chatham for public parking; one of the two major health providers on the South Coast has not renewed it's contract with Tufts medical, leaving a large number of patients without coverage when they go to local doctors; the opening of scallop season off Nantucket gets poor reviews; a replica of a historic tall ship will be home-ported in Nantucket; the new executive director of Provincetown 400 will make strong effort to correct the historic record; the Provincetown harbormaster and fishermen save a sinking lobster boat; West Tisbury holds a Special Town Meeting and votes to contribute nearly $1 million to an affordable housing project; Tisbury looks to change its mooring policy, perhaps taking away 20 moorings from local commercial boats.