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POTTSTOWN PA – So you buy a state lottery ticket or maybe two, week after week, and you never win. Not a dollar. Not $2. Nothing. And you figure, “nobody else wins either.”
You’re oh-so-wrong. Theresa Szychowski of Pottstown won in May (2009). Dawn Beasley of Sanatoga did too, and Donald Moyer of Limerick.
Gus, the Pennsylvania Lottery's groundhog mascot.
In fact, 52 individuals in the TriCounty (Montgomery, Chester and Berks PA counties) area each won at least $1,000 – and one of them won $225,000! – in a variety of May lottery drawings, the winners of which were recently announced by the Middletown PA-based Pennsylvania Lottery.
The May winner lists, the most current available, were published on the Lottery’s website. Most of the local winners listed participated in the Lottery’s instant, or “scratch-to-play,” games. Others took prizes in the games for Mix And Match, PowerBall, Cash 5, Quinto, and Super 7. Specific dollar amounts won by individuals can be found on the lists linked within this paragraph.
Money Won’t Solve Every Woe. Read the second of two stories here.
Good fortune was found many places during May, it seems. Luck lived in Pottstown borough, where during the month 18 people collectively won $250,620. It lived in Phoenixville as well, where 10 people combined to win $24,100. It even camped in Spring City, where four people won a total of $16,500.
Here are the bigger winners – the ones who made off with a cool grand, at minimum – and where they call home:
Pottstown: Ursula Frain, Richard M. Marks, Albert Derrickson, Kendra P. Cluthe, Kyongsun Sautter, Kenneth Baker, Karen A. Fielding, Sean C. Mclaughlin, David Petrowski, Paula A. Wagner, Ronald S. Patrick, Timothy Allen, William H. Bailey, Kennard Mills, Joseph Brandel, Mary L. Davis, Theresa Szychowski, and Patricia Deyoc.
Sanatoga: Dawn Beasley.
Stowe: Kenneth G. Whitehall, and Harry M. Tornetta.
Douglassville: Walter M. Fox.
Gilbertsville: Anthony Bucci, Margaret M. Mccaughrean, and George Wilkinson.
Boyertown: Amanda Hovermale, and Carol J. Sematis.
Who won during May in:
- Limerick, Royersford, Phoenixville, Collegeville, Schwenksville and Spring City? See the companion story in The Limerick Post.
- Sanatoga and Pottstown? See the companion story in The Sanatoga Post.
