■More than 1,000 persons attended the firemen’s muster held Sunday at Hathaway’s Field in Williamsburg. Fifteen muster teams from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont and New Hampshire took part.
■Robert J. Doyle Jr. has announced that he is withdrawing his candidacy for district attorney after deciding to become a campaign coordinator for the gubernatorial candidacy of Kevin H. White. Boyle said he is going to Boston tomorrow to discuss with Mayor White what specific role he will play in the campaign in this area.
■The state House of Representatives agreed Tuesday to reinstate a 50 percent reimbursement to all towns that lose local school funds to charter schools. Also, the House approved changes to charter school enrollment rules so that host towns in small communities do not receive enrollment preference.
■Jeremiah Paul Driscoll, the former city fire chief who retired only because state law said he must, died yesterday at his Ryan Road home. Driscoll, 71, devoted his life to firefighting, starting as a private in 1947. He retired in 1989 at age 65, after having been Northampton’s fire chief for 11 years.
■Run by three generations of the same family over more than 90 years in Northampton, Sabin Star Lock Security is closing its doors. “It’s kind of sad,” owner David Sabin said Monday. “Ten more years and I would have had 100 years.” The locksmith shop on Crafts Avenue has been asked by his landlord to clear out to make way for a restaurant.
■Mohegan Sun, the Uncasville, Conn.-based casino company, is planning to build a full resort casino, with a 600-room hotel and spa, 1,500-to-2,000-seat entertainment venue, a half-dozen restaurants, meeting center, shops and 3,000 slot machines and table games on a 152-acre property in Palmer.