■Aside from streets being littered with cabbages and pumpkins, dozens of fire calls, and incidents such as egg peltings and paper rolling, things were quiet in Northampton and surrounding communities during the Halloween weekend. Northampton police reported that streets in Leeds were covered with smashed pumpkins and cabbages.
■Deputy Sheriff William J. Wall, 76, died last night at Cooley Dickinson Hospital after a long illness. He had served in every capacity at the jail, from guard to master and keeper, and was special sheriff and master keeper at the time of his retirement in 1965.
■The horses will be off and running at the Three-County Fair in August 1997. After weeks of soul searching, the power brokers who run the oldest agricultural fair in the country met at the fairgrounds Monday and decided to give parimutuel horse racing one more try.
■In a quest for more space and “a little nicer location,” Myers Eatery will move this December from Pleasant Street around the corner to Pearl Street, says co-owner Richard Lyman Jr. The 7 Pearl St. address, the former home of the short-lived City Side BBQ, is three times the size of Myer’s current 88 Pleasant St. space.
■Hundreds of thousands of people across the Northeast shivered at the prospect of days without heat or lights after a freak October snowstorm over the weekend, and many towns postponed trick-or-treating Monday in what seemed like a mean Halloween prank to some children.
■Hard Rock International said Tuesday it is partnering with a local developer to build a proposed casino and hotel at a 100-acre site off Interstate 91 in Holyoke. The proposal was announced as lawmakers worked to finalize a bill that would authorize three resort-style casinos in Massachusetts.