POPULATION: 18,431
HOUSES: 4,779
- Town municipal and school budgets experience severe cuts during first year of Proposition 2.5 implementation.
- Major configuration changes to municipal buildings are adopted in response to Proposition 2.5 spending restraints and dwindling school population, which is down by more than 1750 students from its 1973 peak. These configuration changes would ultimately impact town municipal operations and evolving school classroom space needs over the next two decades. Board of Selectmen vote implement the following changes over the next couple of years:
- Conversion of Town Hall to house Police Department
- Conversion of New Stone School to house Town Hall operations
- Evacuated Police Station building to be taken over by Fire Department
- Closing of Boyden School
- Sale of Old Fisher School for conversion to professional offices
- Sale of Bird Elementary School for condominium development
- Demolition of Old Stone School
- Rental of house on DPW property (Washington Street) for use as School Administration building
- On its 100th anniversary, the Old Town Hall is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
SCHOOLS
- School system lays off 47 Full Time Teacher Equivalents and 50 support staff
- Fisher School principal Richard Eldridge retires
- Harold LeBlanc and Suzanne Gillam appointed as principal and assistant principal, respectively
- Old Stone School is demolished in November
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| Demolition of Old Stone School |
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