Recent catastrophic wildfires in California have sown concern on Martha’s Vineyard, where there is concern the 5,000-acre Manuel F. Correllus State Forest is becoming a tinder box.

The Tisbury selectmen, school committee and school building committee chose Boston-based Tappé Architects to remodel and modernize the town elementary school.

Two Oak Bluffs moped dealers gave impassioned testimony at the state house on Thursday against a home rule petition that would allow the town to regulate the scooters.

A Martha’s Vineyard Commission vote on the Meeting House Place subdivision in Edgartown will be put on hold after developers indicated they will file a revised plan, the commission said this week.

A bill that would allow the town of Oak Bluffs to ban rental mopeds is set for a hearing on Beacon Hill this morning. The home rule petition will come before the Joint Committee on Municipalities and Regional Government.

Tisbury could reap hundreds of thousands of dollars a year from short-term rental property registrations that became mandatory when the state passed its short-term rental tax last year.