Teresa Yuan Promoted

Teresa Yuan of Edgartown has received a promotion from Market America’s Unfranchise System. Ms. Yuan has moved up to the executive coordinator level as an independent distributor for Market America, a product brokerage and Internet marketing company.

Ms. Yuan’s promotion was based on success in sales, leadership and management in motivating and training other distributors to do the same during the month of October.

Aquinnah Schedules

Special Town Meeting

Aquinnah selectmen have set a special town meeting for Tuesday, Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. at old town hall to discuss funding remaining 2007 projects.

Agenda items include wage and salary levels, engineering for a distributed antenna system base station at the town landfill to enhance up-Island cell phone service, and several cultural programs.

Tisbury Tilting at Windmills

The decision by the town of Tisbury to challenge the state school funding formula in court is a wasteful expenditure of public money and a near-certain recipe for deepening the rift among the six Island towns over how they divide their payments for the high school budget — precisely at a time when a regional approach and mindset are needed.

Weathering Leaner Times

Statistics from the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank, which keeps the most accurate records on the Island real estate market, are the latest and strongest confirmation of the Vineyard’s softening economy.

Real estate transactions on the Vineyard fell last year for the third year in a row. Revenues at the land bank fell for the second consecutive year.

January Thaw

To be sure, Islanders worry about global warming, but when the weather turns from bitter cold with temperatures in the single digits to a balmy fifty degrees — as it did between last week and this — well, they might put the worries aside for a day or two.

Correction

A feature in last week’s Gazette incorrectly reported Ali Berlow’s full first name, which is Alice. The Gazette regrets the error.

The tragedy of the New England hurricane of 1938 was not the loss of nearly 10,000 homes and business along the shore. It was the psychic destruction of summer for an entire generation. Virtually everyone that lived on or near the New England coast was traumatized by the loss of someone or something they loved. People who lived in homes their grandparents built and thought were safe and secure were killed, injured or saw their property destroyed.

With the economy in shambles and no end in sight to the Writers Guild strike, Hollywood studios are about to release a string of low-budget movies based on previous Oscar winners. Coming soon to theatres near you:

• Mutiny on The Love Boat (1935). In this updated seafaring tale, cruise ship passengers become ill and hurl invective, among other things, at the captain.

• You Can Take It With You! (1938). Bill and Warren venture into the hereafter.

• How Green Was My Valet (1941). The Incredible Hulk falls on hard times.

Thank you, dear Edgartown for all your friendly greetings, pats on the head, dog bones (especially Kendra at the Gazette, Linda at the hardware store and my friends at the Dukes County Savings Bank) and the Vineyard Vet staff who kept me strong for 14-plus years. I loved my walks and beach runs. Now I’ll romp in dog heaven

— Chloe Nolan

Effective Leadership

From the Vineyard Gazette editions of January, 1983: