■The Hampshire County Mothers of Twins Club celebrated its 10th birthday last night at a banquet in the Starlite Room at Alexander’s Restaurant in Florence. The local club was created by a coincidence when two mothers — Mrs. Russell Mariz and Mrs. William F. Corbett — shared the same hospital room in the summer of 1961 when both gave birth to twins.
■Art Buchwald entertained a crowd of 5,000 students at UMass last night with jokes that made fun of presidential aspirants from George Wallace and Spiro Agnew to Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey. Buchwald told jokes, stories, and vignettes that kept the crowd laughing and applauding. It was only the sudden appearance of a heckler in the final minutes of the program that put a damper on the crowd’s good spirits.
■A wandering bull moose forced the closure of the heavily traveled Damon Road for 1½ hours this morning before swimming out to Elwell Island. It was the second moose sighting in less than 24 hours. Another moose, a female, was seen in Hadley and Amherst yesterday.
■Rachel K. Berlingame and Michael H. Shea III, lifelong Northampton residents, were sworn in before the City Council Thursday as the newest members of the Northampton Police Department. Both are the grandchildren of former Northampton police officers.
■At-large Easthampton City Councilor Andrea Burns is not running for a second term in office because she is moving back to her hometown of Boston because of health issues with a family member there. Burns’ decision means there are no contested City Council races in the Nov. 8 election.
■Hatfield town officials are close to sealing the deal to let Hilltown Cooperative Charter Public School in Williamsburg move into the long vacant Center School. For Hilltown officials, who have been looking for 13 years for space to relocate from the current quarters in Haydenville, the news seems almost too good to be true.