249 County Road in Oak Bluffs sold for $375,000 on March 8.

13 Netock Avenue in Oak Bluffs sold for $719,000 on March 6.

15 Leslie’s Lane in Oak Bluffs sold for $272,500 on March 6.

1 Boldwater Road in Edgartown sold for $5,400,000 on March 4.

Plans to move a Chappaquiddick home threatened by erosion became more urgent this week, after last week’s nearly-three-day storm brought the coastal bank 11 feet closer to Richard and Jennifer Schifter’s Wasque Point home. But as waves continue to eat away at the waterfront property, the drama of the house move has extended into now weekly meetings at Edgartown town hall, where the house faces regulatory, logistical, and environmental concerns from town officials and neighbors.

The succession of storms that have pounded the Island this winter have taken their toll in Oak Bluffs, where the town says massive repairs are needed to stabilize the damaged East Chop area.

Officials said the already-weakened East Chop Drive, bluff and beach have sustained significant damage in the past few months, beginning with Hurricane Sandy in October and continuing through a nearly-three-day storm last week.

Island Grown Initiative announced preliminary plans this week for a campus-style farm center at the former Thimble Farm Property, including a refurbished greenhouse, parcels of land for tenant farmers and a slaughterhouse facility.
At the farm network’s annual farmers’ dinner on Monday night, executive director Sarah McKay laid out the organization’s initial plans for the historic agricultural property.

The Dunkls are water people.

For the past 14 years, Frank, Peter and Heidi Dunkl have owned, operated and delivered Chilmark Spring Water. But now the siblings are looking to sell the business.

“When you’re almost 70 and you’re dealing with one five-gallon bottle in your hand and another on your shoulder and you have to walk up three flights of stairs, you think, what am I doing this for at my age?” Frank Dunkl said. “You

In the end, somebody had to lose.

On Tuesday afternoon, the boys’ basketball team took on defending state champion Danvers in the semifinals of the Division 3 state tournament, battling back and forth with the Falcons on the green-painted parquet of the TD Banknorth Garden in Boston. The game had just about everything — late rallies, one-point leads, clutch breakaways and raucous fans — but a Hollywood ending never came for the Vineyard. The team fell 50-47 in the final second.

Starting in April, patients undergoing chemotherapy for cancer will be able to get more of their treatments on-Island under a new agreement between Martha’s Vineyard Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital’s Cancer Center.

Renovations are underway to turn the former emergency room area in the old section of the hospital into a six-bed oncology unit with offices for a new three-day-a-week nurse practitioner and physicians who will rotate in monthly from Boston, said Carol Bardwell, chief nurse executive for Martha’s Vineyard Hospital.