The New York Lottery just wrapped up its Million Dollar Raffle, and there were a few lucky winners in and around the Capital Region.

This special raffle wasn’t just about winning big, though it was also part of the Erie Canal’s Bicentennial Celebration, a nod to one of New York’s greatest achievements.

In total, more than 5,000 winning tickets were sold across the state, with prizes ranging from $200 to $1 million. Fifteen people are now millionaires, another fifteen scored one hundred thousand each, and fifteen more took home twenty-five thousand. Thousands of others snagged two-hundred-dollar wins, which isn’t a bad way to end October.

Here in our area, one of the million-dollar tickets was sold in Schenectady County at a Stewart’s on High Bridge Road. Another million-dollar winner ca

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