The Martha's Vineyard Times Time to make the doughnut whole? Three years after the Oak Bluffs board of selectmen voted to complete a land swap with the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank on a piece of property known as the “doughnut hole,” our reporter Brian Dowd set out to find out why it stalled — again. Shining that light on the proposed deal appears to have reignited the interest in completing the deal between the two parties. Less than a week after we published the story, the Land Bank Commission added an item to its agenda under “new business” — a delightful bit of irony there — and approved an intergovernmental agreement that seeks to seal the deal by eliminating at least one of the conditions that stood in the way.