Hope voters tended to the first part of their 2025 annual Town Meeting June 10 at the polls with 394 ballots cast, approving their K-8 budget of $3.843 million with 204 yes votes and 184 nays.

Voting 217 yes and 171 no, Hope voters approved the  $18,504,043 Five Town CSD (Camden Hills Regional High School) budget. Hope's share is $984,680, up 16 percent from the $849,032 of the 2024-2025 budget. 

Hope reelected two Select Board candidates — Joe Tassi and Charles Weidman — who ran for three-year terms. Joe Tassi received 162 votes and Charles Weidman, 218 votes. Michael Steere received 58 votes.

Regina Rooney was elected to the School Committee with 85 votes and Charlene Mazzeo to the Budget Committee with 252 votes. Both ran unopposed.

Hope has a two-part Annual Town Meeting with the second half taking place in person Thursday, June 12, at 6 p.m. at the Hope Corner Fire Station. Registered Hope voters will then decide on Warrant Articles 5 through 26 by raising a card that was issued to them when each of them checked in to the meeting.

At the June 13 continuation of the Hope Town Meeting, voters will consider amending the Hope Fire Department Ordinance to expand defintions and languaged governing the fire department.