Local Woman 'Schwartzie' Becomes Talk Of NFL Sunday: Patch PM

MASSACHUSETTS — It's Monday, Oct. 4. Here's what you should know this afternoon:

• An Ashland woman is having her 15 minutes after Sunday's Patriots-Buccaneers matchup.
• Monday night's Powerball jackpot now sits at $685 million — the eighth-largest prize is U.S. lottery history
• There's a big (small) business opportunity open in Worcester.

Scroll down for more on those and other stories Patch has been covering in Massachusetts today.

Today's Top Story: 'Schartzie' fever

Ashland resident Kathie Schwartz rose to fame Sunday after her quote about Tom Brady was broadcast by NBC.

"I’ll cheer for him when he comes out. But after that, nah. I want some sacks. I want to see our frigging linebackers just pummel them and punish him," the quote read with an image of her sitting in a 1977 Dodge.

Soon after, "Schwartzy" (a misspelling, Schwartz said) began trending on social media.

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Monday's Other Top Stories

Feeling lucky? The Powerball jackpot has swelled to the eighth-largest prize is U.S. lottery history, and residents in Massachusetts and beyond will test their luck again Monday night. The jackpot is for an estimated $685 million; the cash option is an estimated $485.5 million. It would be the sixth-highest Powerball prize in the game's history.

Big tiny opportunity: The city of Worcester is looking for a business to lease a 98 square-foot space inside the historic Union Station. The small slice of the train station used to be home to a café.

Facebook, Instagram down: Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, three apps owned by Facebook, are down in a major outage Monday that is affecting customers around the world, according to reports. Here are five things to know about the outages.

Temporary turf ban: Wayland won't build anymore crumb rubber fields for the foreseeable future after Town Meeting approved a temporary moratorium on Sunday. At the same meeting, members voted to pursue a slew of new grass fields.

Roof collapse: Waltham fire officials say the building, which formerly housed an Aisle 9 store, has been vacant for nearly a decade and the roof has been deteriorating.

The 2021 Boston Marathon is Oct. 11. Read the latest on Patch's 2021 Boston Marathon hub.

They Said It

"Patrons can try new things, have fun adventures, and gain new experiences."

• Goodnow Library reference services chief Joanne Lee on the new "library of things" coming at the end of the month.