1960

POPULATION:  14,068

HOUSES:  3,409

 

  • Work started on Little League ball field at Memorial Pond Park (originally Central Field, now Joe Morgan Field)

BUSINESS 

  • Construction of A&P grocery store (current location of CVS Main Street)
  • Three additional stores would be built in the shopping area near A&P, which would be referred to as the "Edgewood Shopping Plaza". 
  • Three new business ventures announced:
    • Expansion of Kendall Mills South Street plant
    • Ground breaking of Fernandes Shopping Center on Main Street (current 1A Marketplace housing Rocky's Ace Hardware, etc.)
    • Ground breaking of Hollywood Lanes (bowling) at the intersection of Routes 1 and 27 (current location of Walmart).  Hockey rink also planned for the same location. 
  
1st of 3 new buildings to join A&P in the Edgewood Plaza Shopping Center on Main Street


New apartments at 175 Common Street

Eldor Apartments, 516 Main Street next to Cobb's Pond



























SCHOOLS

  • School Committee requests committee be appointed to oversee building of addition onto Boyden Elementary 
  • New teacher hires include Esther Camelio (4th Grade Math, Fisher School) and Charles Cinto (Junior High Science)
  •  Number of classrooms and students by grade in each school across the school system:

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