Winning Powerball Ticket Sold At Toms River Convenience Store

A winning Powerball ticket worth 50 thousand dollars was sold at the convenience store attached to the Singin Oil gas station on Lakewood Road, this past Monday. The ticket matched four numbers in the Powerball drawing Monday night.

The winning numbers for the Monday night Powerball were 5 - 14 - 29 - 38 - 66, and the Powerball number was 1. While no one won the estimated 48 million dollar Powerball Jackpot, six other tickets besides the one in Toms River also won 50 thousand dollars.

This is only the most recent winner in our neck of the woods. You may remember back in March someone won the massive Mega Millions billion-dollar drawing with a ticket purchased at the Shoprite of Neptune. Meanwhile, back late last year, someone from Lanoka Harbor took home a cool million dollars in the Mega Millions drawing on December 20th. That person matched the 5 white balls and was only missing the Mega Ball for the full jackpot.

According to the New Jersey Lottery, in Powerball the winning numbers are made up of five "white balls" from a matrix of 69 and one "Powerball" from a matrix of 26, resulting in jackpot odds of 1 in 292,201,338 per play. Each play costs two dollars, but players in some states can add Power Play, which allows players to increase the payout of their winning numbers, or Double Play, which allows players to use their numbers in a second, concurrent drawing with a different prize pool, each for an additional dollar. The official cutoff for ticket sales is 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time; some lotteries cut off sales earlier. Powerball's minimum jackpot starts at $20 million annuity.

Powerball jackpot winners have the choice of taking the annuity or lump sum cash prize. The annuity is paid in 30 "graduated installments" over 29 years with each annuity payment increasing 5% annually. whereas the lump sum payment, with a cash value of about half of the advertised jackpot, is paid all at once.

Meanwhile, in Mega Millions, originally known as The Big Game, the minimum Mega Millions advertised jackpot is $20 million, paid in 30 graduated yearly installments, increasing 5% each year (unless the cash option is chosen). The jackpot increases when no top-prize winner results.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has honored many artists who are still with us, but they've also delivered a number of posthumous inductions. The latter is something that stuck in the craw of Dee Snider.

The Twisted Sister took to X (formerly Twitter) on May 11 and wrote, "DEAR RNR HALL OF FAME...There are bands who YOU KNOW are going to eventually be inducted because of their huge influence. How about NOT waiting until the entire band is DEAD? The MC5 are being inducted next month. The last living member died yesterday. RIP MC5. #ThatSucks."

As previously reported, the MC5 are one of four artists being honored with the Musical Excellence Award as part of the 2024 Rock Hall induction class. The Musician Excellence Award is "given to artists, musicians, songwriters and producers whose originality and influence creating music have had a dramatic impact on music."

While being recognized by the Rock Hall is a long overdue honor for the MC5, unfortunately, as Snider stated, all members of the classic lineup have died. Drummer Dennis Thompson died on May 9 from a heart attack at age 75. Former MC5 manager and counterculture icon John Sinclair died on April 2 at age 82. Guitarist Wayne Kramer died shortly before Thompson on February 2 at age 75.

Before a brutal 2024 wiped out the MC5, the band suffered two major losses in the 1990s. Singer Rob Tyner died in September 1991 at age 46 from a heart attack. Three years later, guitarist Fred "Sonic" Smith died in November 1994 also at age 46 from heart failure.

So, with all of this bummer news in mind, perhaps this is time to list some artists that we hope will get into the Rock Hall before they die. Obviously, this is a very short list, but it's a solid jumping off point for more discussion. As we all know, there's always plenty to discuss when it comes to the Rock Hall.