WCAI News Director Sean Corcoran hosts a discussion about the top local news stories of the week. Joining him are Patrick Cassidy of the Cape Cod Times; Jim DeArruda at the New Bedford Standard-Times; Joshua Balling of the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror; Tim Wood of the Cape Cod Chronicle; and Nelson Sigelman of the Martha's Vineyard Times.
Among the stories they discuss: The Mashpee schools superintendent will appear in front of a court magistrate who will decide if breaking and entering charges will go forward; two public water wells in Chatham are shut down after contamination is identified; Bourne residents grapple with budget cuts, job layoffs and reductions in service; the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution experiences a cyber attack; a Sandwich planning board rejects a zoning change that would make way for a sports complex in town; the Dennis-Yarmouth School District pulls an app from student iPads after parents complain; a leader of a local Disabled American Veterans chapter is found guilty of stealing money from the organization; and Brewster may get a medical marijuana dispensary.