🌱 Why a Longmeadow eviction ended with bees, injuries, and jail time
Longmeadow, Massachusetts Patch AM: a 4 min readHi Longmeadow! We have the latest buzz right here. Let's keep you in the loop and get this morning started right! ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- Why a Longmeadow eviction ended with bees, injuries, and jail time
- Spot Longmeadow’s own runner in this huge 2026 Boston Marathon gallery
Also on today's calendar: 2026 Spring Indoor Vendor Fair and 7 more events.
Today's riddle: How do you measure a fish? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Wednesday: A passing morning shower, with a high of 50 and low of 40 degrees.
- Thursday: Breezy with sunny intervals, temps: high: 68, low: 39.
- Friday: Sunshine and a few clouds, with a high of 62 and low of 39 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Rebecca Woods Found Guilty After Unleashing Bees On Officers (oxygen.com) — A Longmeadow eviction in 2022 turned chaotic when a protesting beekeeper released thousands of bees at Hampden County deputies, stinging several and sending one to the hospital. Rebecca Woods has now been convicted on multiple assault charges and sentenced to six months in jail, though she maintains she only meant to delay the eviction and is appealing. 
• 2026 Boston Marathon photos finish line and along the course (livingstondaily.com) — A Longmeadow runner, Mike Gentile, is among thousands featured in a massive photo gallery from the 130th Boston Marathon, with images from Hopkinton to the Boylston Street finish. The collection captures elite winners, wheelchair and handcycle racers, military marchers, costumed runners, and cheering crowds along the route.
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Upcoming Events in
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★ Featured events ★
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2026 Spring Indoor Vendor Fair
Scantic Church Parish Hall, 124 Scantic Rd, East Windsor, CT, 06088,
9:00 am
Saturday April 25
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Other local events
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Central Varsity Baseball @ Longmeadow
Longmeadow High School , 95 Grassy Gutter Rd , Longmeadow
4:00 pm -
Free Paper Shredding Event
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9:00 am -
Mind. Movement. Market: April Edition
Continuum Performance Center , 175 Benton Dr #500 , East Longmeadow
9:30 am -
Western Massachusetts Black Nurses Association Annual Scholarship Luncheon
Twin Hills Country Club , 700 Wolf Swamp Rd , Longmeadow
10:00 am -
Make Your Own Sock Monkey Workshop
Brew Practitioners Brewery and Taproom , 45 Baldwin St , East Longmeadow
2:00 pm -
Annual Town Meeting Warrant Info Session
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6:30 pm -
WMS/GMS Hamilton Broadway Field Trip
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Diversity Equity and Inclusion Advisory Committee Meeting
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7:00 pm -
Mac Wears a Hat: Special Storytime with author Vicki Johnson
Richard Salter Storrs Library , 693 Longmeadow St , Longmeadow
3:30 pm
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🗓 Events Nearby
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Boys Varsity Baseball @ Belchertown High School
Chicopee Comprehensive High School , 142 Springfield Road , Belchertown
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Girls JV Softball vs Holyoke High School
Chicopee Comprehensive High School , 17 Chicopee St , Chicopee
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Girls Varsity Softball vs Holyoke High School
Chicopee Comprehensive High School , 617 Montgomery St , Chicopee
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Board of Assessors
East Longmeadow, MA Calendar , 382 North Main Street Suite 205 , East Longmeadow
4:30 pm
Wednesday April 22
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What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- Whitsons Culinary Group posted a job opening for Food Service Worker - Longmeadow Center School Nutrition in Longmeadow. Apply here.
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🗞 Nearby News
East Longmeadow
- East Longmeadow Lions Club hooks community spirit with annual fishing derby (thereminder.com)
- East Longmeadow Town Council upholds marijuana moratorium (thereminder.com)
- John Maybury of Maybury Material Handling Named Grand Marshal of 54th Annual NAPA Spring Sizzler at Stafford Speedway (motorsportsnews.net)
Springfield
- Students explore careers at Springfield's YouthWorks Academy (wwlp.com)
- Big Brother Casting Call Draws Hundreds to Springfield (westernmassnews.com)
- Springfield unveils comprehensive housing plan after 20 years (wwlp.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: By inches because they have no feet. (Thank you Gypsy S. for sending it in!)
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