The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank has signed a contract to purchase 41.1 acres on Chappaquiddick, including some 900 feet of shoreline on Cape Pogue Bay.

The acquisition will be added to its existing Three Ponds Reservation, bringing the total contiguous land area to 357.7 acres.

In an announcement on Monday, the land bank said the land, at the end of Jeffers Lane, would cost $4.95 million. The sellers are Judith Self Murphy, E. Baldwin Self Jr. and Karen Self Osler.

For almost a decade, the two major ferry operators in the Cape and Islands were united in trenchant opposition to Cape Wind. Suddenly though, one operator sees the wind farm as a major tourism opportunity, while the other maintains it is a navigational hazard.

The one that changed position was Hy-Line Cruises, which announced this week that it was partnering with Cape Wind to develop eco-themed tours of the 130-turbine wind farm in Nantucket Sound, both during construction and operation.

The Oak Bluffs clay brick bathhouse withstood the hurricane of 1938 and after its new facelift it should be ready to withstand a few more.

In October voters agreed to spend $200,000 of Community Preservation Act money on the $490,000 project to restore what parks commissioner chairman Nancy Phillips called its “deplorable condition.” The formerly dingy digs will be replaced with new women’s and men’s rooms along with a family bathroom. The property is also being regraded and made handicap accessible.

Where will the bicycles go? Where do the buses stop? Which one is the children’s room? Those were just a few of the questions Megan McDonald’s first grade students asked student council representatives about the proposal for a new Edgartown library on Wednesday morning.

Seventh graders Lee Hayman and Sara Poggi presented the plans and perspective drawings and answered questions for their fellow students in an effort to involve the entire community, even the youngest, in the decision-making process.

When the engine on Jean Dupon’s light plane died on approach to Martha’s Vineyard Airport on Saturday night, he had two things going for him: almost 30 years’ experience as a pilot and the biggest full moon in 20 years.

Mr. Dupon, 67, of Edgartown, did exactly what he should have under the circumstances, said fellow pilot and Martha’s Vineyard Airport manager Sean Flynn. He pointed the plane towards State Beach.

Efforts to further restrict the harvesting of lobsters by this summer were delayed this week. Fisheries managers will not impose any additional restrictions on lobster fishing for at least another year because they have not yet agreed on a clear set of restrictions to bring to public hearings, a necessary first step towards finalizing new regulations.

The next meeting of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s lobster management board won’t take place until August.

While the world trembles with renewed concerns over nuclear power, one government body is pushing to rein in the harmful, and perhaps wider-reaching, effects of more traditional power sources. Although there are no coal-fired power plants on the Vineyard, the Island’s isolation has not immunized it from distant emissions. Last week the Environmental Protection agency announced that it would begin to crack down on such pollutants, chief among them mercury, a familiar, and unwelcome, element in the Vineyard ecosystem.

Brooke and Derek Avakian only exchanged wedding rings six months ago, but thanks to a new affordable housing program they’ll be able to make a newlyweds’ dream come true: own their own home.

The thieves who broke into six homes in Edgartown over the past 10 days did not take jewelry, electronics, cash or any other valuables. They were after one thing only: prescription medications.

But that is not the outstanding fact about the cases, notes Detective Sergeant Chris Dolby of the Edgartown Police Department. Nor is the fact that the break-ins were carried out brazenly in broad daylight. The salient fact is that in three of the six houses the thieves targeted, they found what they were looking for.