WCAI's Sean Corcoran hosts an hour-long roundup of local news stories with journalists from across the region. Joining Sean this week are Sean Driscoll 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; Ed Miller of the Provincetown Banner; and Bill Chaisson of the Martha's Vineyard Times.
Among the stories they discuss this week: the state creates a website that shows the different impacts of the region's opiate epidemic; the Barnstable County District Attorney is sued by the Massachusetts Attorney General for not turning over public information that was requested by a media organization; two local town administrators are looking for off-Cape jobs; a team of engineers has arrived at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station to inspect the aging, trouble-plagued plant; a Brewster man pleads guilty to shooting a red tailed hawk; the NOAH shelter has new management and a new name; the Steamship Authority begins a 6-year construction project; the Mashpee and Falmouth High School football teams are heading to Gillette Stadium this weekend for the Super Bowl games; Oak Bluffs officials considering what to do about a 101-year-old theater that's in disrepair and may be dangerous; Harwich looks to expand a fire station in the east side of town; the so-called Kline house will stay in the "Hopper landscape" in Truro; and Oak Bluffs officials on Martha's Vineyard look to improve enforcement of moped regulations.