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WCAI's Local News Roundup: Some Falmouth Students Relocated; Willow Tree on the Chopping Block

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WCAI's Sean Corcoran hosts a roundup of local and regional news with several area journalists. Guests include: Cindy McCormick from the Cape Cod Times; Sara Brown from the Martha's Vineyard Gazette; Nelson Sigelman of the Martha's Vineyard Times; Ann Wood from the Provincetown Banner; Tim Wood of the Cape Cod Chronicle; Joshua Balling of the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror; and Jim DeArruda from the New Bedford Standard-Times.

Among the stories they discuss this week: Falmouth students temporarily will be placed in other town schools after asbestos is found at Teaticket Elementary; the Justice Department wants a judge to reconsider his decision about the Mashpee Wampanoag taking land into trust; some criticism of a candidate plan to house homeless people on the cape's military base; racism is charged in a restaurant dispute; a local man on the run from police is caught while wearing a remarkable disguise; the fate of a well-known willow tree in Sandwich is now in the hands of selectmen there; some familiar faces win the Falmouth Road Race; a young Mashpee girl hit while riding her bike comes home to a big welcome; a beloved Martha's Vineyard bus driver retires; the Chatham Chamber of Commerce teams up with local veterans to try and save the Chatham VFW; Harwich backs off regulations that would have banned drones from beaches; New Bedford-area politicians battle over earmark dollars; Acushnet voters will weigh in on liquified natural gas facility in town; an affordable housing project planned for Nantucket is now off; candidate Hillary Clinton visits Provincetown; the State Forest superintendent on Martha's Vineyard resigns.

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