WCAI News Director Sean Corcoran and local journalists review the top regional news stories of the week. Sean's guests this week include Gwenn Friss, an editor at The Cape Cod Times; Cape Cod Chronicle Editor Tim Wood; Nelson Sigelman, editor of the Martha's Vineyard Times; Sally Rose, editor of the Provincetown Banner; and New Bedford Standard-Times Editorial Page Editor Jim DeArruda.
This week's roundup includes a story about Cape Cod's disappearing salt marsh grass; the Hyannis Marathon is canceled because of all the recent snow; a plan is being crafted to replace the vegetation mistakenly cleared from the Route 6 median in Sandwich last fall; the Cape Cod Times seeks to overturn a judges order that sealed court documents related to a shooting in Bourne; and the state releases startling new numbers related to the region's opiate problem.