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Winning $35K lottery ticket sold at Handy Pantry in Mattituck

A trip to the local market paid off big time for one lucky winner in Mattituck who scored $34,939 on a New York Lottery Take 5 ticket yesterday.

According to the New York Lottery, “Winner Wednesday” was a banner day for the person who bought their Take 5 ticket at Handy Pantry on Route 25 in Mattituck.

The winner’s name has not yet been announced.

Handy Pantry sales clerk Roderigo Calderone was excited to hear about the windfall at the store. “I wish it had been me,” he said. “Then I would have been able to pay my college tuition and not had to take a year off. They were lucky.”

Fellow clerk Pamela Schmidt said the closest she’s ever come to winning big was $100 on a scratch off. To the mysterious winner, she said, “Congratulations.”

Lightning struck twice in the area on Wednesday: A $150,000 Powerball ticket was sold at 7-Eleven on Old Country Road in Riverhead.

The two local tickets were the only two winners in Suffolk County for Wednesday’s drawing.

The largest win was a $1 million Powerball prize sold at Wegmans in Niagara Falls.

Other winners included a $122,487 Lotto ticket sold in Staten Island and a second Take 5 ticket, also worth $34,939, sold in Brooklyn.

“We are excited to see five large winners across multiple games in New York all on the same day. The New York Lottery has thousands of winners each day at different prize levels with our draw games, but this truly turned into a ‘Winner Wednesday’ for our players,” said Gardner Gurney, acting director of the Division of the Lottery.

The Lottery encourages everyone who bought a New York Lottery draw game ticket, to check their tickets again, as they could be holding a winner. Tickets expire one year after the game’s drawing.

Winners may claim the tickets at any one of the Lottery’s customer service centers statewide, including the Long Island office at 45 South Service Road, Plainview, NY 11803 or at Resorts World Casino New York City, 110-00 Rockaway Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11420. To learn more about how to redeem a prize, click here.

 

 

 

 

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