1983

POPULATION:  18,510

HOUSES:   ~5,000

• Walpole Police Department re-locates to Old Town Hall building
• Walpole's first cable television contract awarded to Massachusetts Cablevision
• Fire guts Peter's Barber Shop on Main Street on March 5

SCHOOLS

• Sales of Old Fisher School and Bird Elementary completed for $547,000
• With closing of Boyden School, only two operating elementary schools remain in town (Fisher and Old Post).  Less than two decades prior in 1965, eight elementary schools were in operation.
• New teachers at Walpole High School include Maureen Kunz (mathematics)