$10,000 Lotto Win in Melville

The holidays will be extra special this year for a Melville man who purchased a winning lottery ticket.

Douglas Kroener bought the winning ticket at the Melville Superstar, located at 490 Route 110 in Melville. The lucky customer learned that he held the winning $10,000 Mega Millions ticket during a drawing held on Dec. 13, The New York Lottery announced today.

It seems Melville is the land of lotto luck, and the Melville Superstar holds true to its name. It is the third lotto win for the convienent store in two years. Local residents and both purchased winning lottery tickets from the Melville shop last year. Diehl won a total of $10,000 and Leifson won a whopping $25,000.

The area has seen two other significant wins this year, the latest being a $62,731 cash prize on a Take Five ticket purchased at  on Walt Whitman Road.

The New York Lottery continues to be North America's largest and most profitable Lottery, contributing over $3 billion in fiscal year 2010-2011 to help support education in New York State. The Lottery's aid represents over 15 percent of total state education funding to local school districts.

Lottery revenue is distributed to local school districts by the same statutory formula used to distribute other state aid to education. It takes into account both a school district's size and its income level; larger, lower-income school districts receive proportionately larger shares of Lottery school funding.