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WCAI's Local News Roundup: More Nuclear Plant Problems; Town Sues County; 6 Year Old Hooks Shark

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WCAI's Sean Corcoran hosts a discussion about the week's top local news stories with regional journalists. His guests include journalists George Brennan of the Cape Cod Times; Tim Wood of the Cape Cod Chronicle; Jim DeArruda of the New Bedford Standard-Times; Joshua Balling of the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror; Nelson Sigelman of the Martha's Vineyard Times; and Ed Miller of the Provincetown Banner.

 Among the stories they discuss this week: Inspectors find more equipment issues at Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth; Provincetown is apparently forgotten in efforts to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the Pilgrims; the town of Barnstable sues the county of Barnstable over groundwater contamination; a Sandwich neighborhood is battling after some residents put up a fence that blocks beach access; a judge is considering if the federal Department of the Interior made a mistake when it put some MashpeeWampanoag land into federal trust; a man wanted for allegedly scamming locals out of cash is arrested in Arkansas; a 6 year old from Texas hooks a great white shark while on a Cape Cod vacation; the town clerk in Orleans gets probation after pleading guilty to a reduced charge in an Amherst crash that killed a pedestrian; the Blue Man Group is selected to be the guest conductor at the annual Pops By the Sea concert next month in Hyannis; some Mashpee residents are dealing with a rat problem; Harwich officials ask for a lengthening of the acceleration lanes at Route 6, between exits 10 and 11; a major sewer project on Nantucket is under scrutiny.

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