The Tisbury School needs more than classrooms to properly educate and care for children, school committee member Mike Watts told town selectmen.

The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School district committee this week postponed a vote on the FY 2021 budget, amid concerns about the lack of a clear policy over how to pay for capital spending projects.

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

Chilmark, the sprawling town of 19 square miles, was boiled down to the size of a classroom on Thursday morning.

The Manuel F. Correllus State Forest holds a long, complex history in its densely packed thickets of pitch pine and scrub oak.

Facing competition in the form of familiar and new foes from towns all over Massachusetts, the Vineyard runners torched their way through the 3.1 mile course at the Gardner Municipal Golf Course.