SPRINGFIELD — Blue and red lights danced on the dark water of the Connecticut River on the evening of Sept. 11.

NORTHAMPTON — Jazz will once again engulf the streets of downtown Northampton as the Northampton Jazz Festival returns Sept. 25 and 26, bringing 80 musicians to 17 venues for its 15th annual event.

AGAWAM — Scammers lost a tool used to target Agawam residents when the City Council voted on Sept. 8 to ban cryptocurrency ATMs in the city. It also temporarily blocked data centers and strengthened the consequences for violating the city’s e-bike ordinance.

SPRINGFIELD — MGM Springfield has operated its casino in the heart of downtown since 2018, but just over seven years later, the relationship has become so strained that the city has filed a lawsuit to address its grievances.

CHESTER — The Chester Railway Station Museum will participate in the Connecticut River Watershed Partnership’s second annual Watershed Week Sept. 19-27.

WILBRAHAM — The Hampden-Wilbraham Regional School District may be looking at an increase in financial impacts if a lack of excess transportation capacity is not met with relief by October.

EAST LONGMEADOW — The East Longmeadow Police Department announced the arrest of A’s Smoke Shop proprietor and licensee Ali Sher on Sept. 4 after a search found flavored vapes, marijuana, alcohol and kratom — a newly designated controlled substance and illegal to possess or sell — following allegations of illegal and unlicensed sales to minors.

AGAWAM — Dozens of Agawam residents, including members of the City Council, state Rep. Nicholas Boldyga and Rev. Stephen Thee, pastor of Bethany Assembly of God, gathered at the Fire Department Headquarter to mark 25 years since terrorists hijacked four passenger airplanes and flew them into each tower of the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and a field in Pennsylvania.

LONGMEADOW — Longmeadow residents, families and friends had the opportunity to attend multiple memorials on the morning of Sept. 11 to remember the victims of 9/11 on the 25th anniversary — one of which a Longmeadow native and three others with ties to the town.

EAST LONGMEADOW — The East Longmeadow Fire Department echoed in conversation between first responders, town officials and residents on Sept. 11, until the lights suddenly cut out and East Longmeadow High School student Brenden Schmidt filled the air with bagpipes in front of an American flag backdrop.