Edgartown resoundingly approved funding for a new town library Thursday, voting 480 to 206 in favor of spending $4.9 million on the project.

"I'm just so proud of Edgartown — what a great gift for the town to give to itself, for our kids, for our seniors, and also for our future," said Chris Scott, executive director of Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust and a former member of the library building committee.

Voters also approved $272,000 for Massachusetts Estuaries Program studies of Cape Pogue, Poucha Pond, Katama Bay and Oyster Pond by a margin of 453 to 233.

In a nonbinding question, voters emphatically rejected building a roundabout at the blinker intersection, 508 to 171.

Megan Anderson won a three-way race for one seat on the school committee with 415 votes. Carlene Gatting received 154 votes and Alexander. Rentumis received 45 votes.

Mr. Rentumis was elected to a seat on the financial advisory committee, receiving 319 votes. Incumbents Morton Fearey Jr. and Barbara Shriber also kept their seats, with 435 and 432 votes, respectively. Current committee chair Thomas Durawa, who did not file his papers in time to be on the ballot, received 261 write-in votes.

In the race for two seats on the board of library trustees, Denise Searle and Carl Watt were elected with 511 and 372 votes, respectively. Mr. Rentumis received 188 votes.

Selectman Arthur Smadbeck, who ran unopposed for re-election, received 559 votes.

Turnout was sparse, with 23 per cent of voters, 706 of 3,162, casting ballots.