WCAI's Sean Corcoran hosts a roundup of local news stories with several area journalists. His guests this week include Geoff Spillane of the Cape Cod Times; Kathryn Eident of WCAI; Tim Wood of the Cape Cod Chronicle; Jim DeArruda of the New Bedford Standard Times; Ann Wood of the Provincetown Banner; Sam Houghton of the Mashpee Enterprise; and Bill Chaisson of the Martha's Vineyard Times.
Among the stories they discuss this week: tragedy strikes in Falmouth after two teenage athletes are involved in a fatal car crash; Barnstable County looks to sue the company that made firefighting foam, chemicals from which are now in the groundwater; the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station experiences a hydrogen leak, though officials downplay its seriousness; the Dennis Conservation Trust and the Native Land Conservancy come to an agreement; a "gentlemen's club" in Mashpee is raided by the IRS; a Mashpee man is arrested in a nation-wide sex sting; State Rep. Tim Whelan criticizes the upcoming Patriots Day movie; Yarmouth officials propose a park at the site of a former drive-in movie theater; the Mashpee School Committee selects a full-time superintendent after an internal search within the Mashpee School Department; Sen. Dan Wolf gives his departing remarks to the state Senate; an underwater "glider" taken by the Chinese Navy was built in Falmouth; the Bristol County Community College names a new president; Provincetown selectmen eye a bankrupt property for affordable housing; Wellfleet is trying to get eight acres of land back from the National Seashore; an Edgartown commercial shell fisherman has his license suspended for allegedly refusing to allow his boat to be searched.