There was debate and also compromise at the West Tisbury annual town meeting Tuesday night, where a record turnout of voters overwhelmingly backed a new town library and a dredging plan for the Mill Pond, and found a middle ground on paving town roads and allowing dogs on Lambert’s Cove Beach.

Three hundred and seventy-eight voters packed the elementary school gymnasium for the four-hour session, presided over by moderator F. Patrick Gregory.

Tisbury voters rejected the controversial $3 million connector road proposal at their annual town meeting this week, ultimately convinced by critics of the project that it was too expensive for the town.

There were no harsh cuts this year, and little of the tense, prolonged debate that has come to epitomize recent annual town meetings in Oak Bluffs. Instead, voters in the financially-strapped town worked quickly this week to pass a modest $24.1 million operating budget for the coming fiscal year and approve 24 articles that will restore some much-needed town services.

A total of 207 voters attended the back-to-back special and annual town meetings Tuesday night, held in the performing arts center of Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.

Edgartown voters easily approved $4.9 million in funding for a new town library, along with dozens of other spending requests during a lengthy annual town meeting Tuesday night.

With a gathering of 305 voters at the Old Whaling Church, town meeting members approved most of the items on the 63-article annual town meeting warrant and a 12-article special town meeting warrant.