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Mass. Lottery sweepstakes winner collects $20M prize

Mass. Lottery sweepstakes winner collects $20M prize

Posted: 7/5/2007 5:57:38 PM

Massachusetts Lottery

Judith Zahn, 59, of Hatfield today claimed the winning $20 million ticket in the Massachusetts Lottery's Star Spangled Sweepstakes drawing on Wednesday.

Zahn, a nurse at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northampton, received a $14 million check today after deducting for taxes, said Beth Bresnahan, spokeswoman for the lottery.

The lucky winner received the check at the Lottery's headquarters in Braintree.  She appeared with her husband Steve, 56, a 26-year patrolman in Amherst and her daughter Hannah, 27.

Zahn bought the ticket at the Hatfield Market.  She walked into the store last month and the store owner asked her if she bought a sweepstakes ticket. "The rest is history," Bresnahan said.

Zahn said that she probably would not have bought the ticket without prompting from the store owner.

The store owner, Fran Frew, will receive $200,000 before taxes as a commission for selling the winning ticket.

Two other people from Western Massachusetts, Theresa Michalczyk of Ludlow and Raymond Dion of West Springfield, each won $250,000 tickets in the sweepstakes, two of 40 such winners across the state, she said.

The Ludlow woman bought her ticket at Randall's Farm in Ludlow and Dion bought his at the E-Zee Mart in West Springfield, she said.

Someone also bought a $1 million ticket at the Stop N' Shop in Westfield, one of 10 $1 million prizes, she said.

Source: The Republican, Lottery Post Staff

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Posted: July 5, 2007, 6:09 pm - IP Logged Bottom Top

WOW!  So fast!!!  Why the rush!!! WTG  Enjoy your Jackpot!!!

 

Poor one day and rich the next!!!  Isn't life grand. 

 

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WTG !!!

Banana  A 14 Million dollar lump sum check makes a rather nice deposit !!!

 

                               

              

 

 

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Posted: July 5, 2007, 9:47 pm - IP Logged Bottom Top

i hope this 20$ ticket thing does'nt take  better jacks for 1$ 

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im the kentucky raffle and the georgia raffle so i may claim my ticket fast like they did since it isnt a big jackpot amount like powerball or megamillions...

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New York's Raffle for Riches drawing is tomorrow

"If you just keep believing, that dream that you wish will come true"

Bed

 

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Good Luck  MissNYC.   I got my ticket and I am ready to win!

 

 

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Posted: July 9, 2007, 12:23 am - IP Logged Bottom Top

Judith Zahn, 59, of Hatfield today claimed the winning $20 million ticket in the Massachusetts Lottery's Star Spangled Sweepstakes drawing on Wednesday.

Zahn, a nurse at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northampton, received a $14 million check today after deducting for taxes, said Beth Bresnahan, spokeswoman for the lottery.

The lucky winner received the check at the Lottery's headquarters in Braintree.  She appeared with her husband Steve, 56, a 26-year patrolman in Amherst and her daughter Hannah, 27.

Zahn bought the ticket at the Hatfield Market.  She walked into the store last month and the store owner asked her if she bought a sweepstakes ticket. "The rest is history," Bresnahan said.

Zahn said that she probably would not have bought the ticket without prompting from the store owner.

The store owner, Fran Frew, will receive $200,000 before taxes as a commission for selling the winning ticket.

Two other people from Western Massachusetts, Theresa Michalczyk of Ludlow and Raymond Dion of West Springfield, each won $250,000 tickets in the sweepstakes, two of 40 such winners across the state, she said.

The Ludlow woman bought her ticket at Randall's Farm in Ludlow and Dion bought his at the E-Zee Mart in West Springfield, she said.

Someone also bought a $1 million ticket at the Stop N' Shop in Westfield, one of 10 $1 million prizes, she said.

wow  14 million  a  nice  paycheck  for  her  years  of  playing  the  lottery ...but  so  much  to  one  person  ...I  would  like  a  lottery  to  award 10,000- $250,000  prizes  at  5.00  per  ticket ; 

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Posted: July 9, 2007, 1:25 am - IP Logged Bottom Top

wow  14 million  a  nice  paycheck  for  her  years  of  playing  the  lottery ...but  so  much  to  one  person  ...I  would  like  a  lottery  to  award 10,000- $250,000  prizes  at  5.00  per  ticket ; 

They already have tons of games like that -- they are called scratch games

If the raffles awarded prizes no bigger than a second-place Mega Millions prize, they would not sell too many tickets.  Then there would be no raffle at all!

 

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Posted: July 9, 2007, 1:36 am - IP Logged Bottom Top

Well this proves that you don't have to live in a big town to win a lot of money!  I grew up in Massachusetts and recall that Hatfield probably had more cows than people.  I doubt if it's much bigger now.  I only know where it is because it wasn't far from U of Mass. 

Congrats!  Hurray!