🌱 Which Avon convenience store just sold a $10 million ticket?

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In today's newsletter:

• Which Avon convenience store just sold a $10 million ticket?

Also on today's calendar: Potters Place Spring Pottery Sale & Fundraiser and 4 more events.

Today's riddle: What is the difference between a nicely dressed man on a tricycle and a poorly dressed man on a bicycle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Saturday: Mostly cloudy and cool, with a high of 52 and low of 40 degrees.
• Sunday: Clouds giving way to some sun, temps: high: 57, low: 35.
• Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 58 and low of 37 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• $10 million grand prize won on scratch ticket sold in Avon (boston25news.com) — A $10 million scratch ticket sold at A-1 Market on East Main Street in Avon has turned into a massive payday for a Quincy-based trust, which chose a lump-sum payout of $6.5 million before taxes. The store will receive a $50,000 bonus, and there’s still one more $10 million grand prize remaining in the same Massachusetts State Lottery game.
   

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📸 Around Avon

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Avon

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday May 2

• AMHS Drama Club - Goosebumps
  Avon Middle-High School, 285 W Main St, Avon
  7:00 pm

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Other local events

Tuesday April 28

• Spring Sports Awards
  Avon Middle High School Avon, MA 02322
  6:00 pm

Friday May 1

• Potters Place Spring Pottery Sale & Fundraiser
  Potters Place , 6 Merchant St , Sharon
  12:00 pm

Saturday May 2

• Potters Place Spring Pottery Sale & Fundraiser
  Potters Place , 6 Merchant St , Sharon
  9:00 am

Sunday May 3

• Potters Place Spring Pottery Sale & Fundraiser
  Potters Place , 6 Merchant St , Sharon
  10:00 am

Tuesday May 5

• Annual Town Meeting
  Avon Middle-High School , 285 W Main St , Avon
  7:30 pm

Saturday May 9

• Annual Plant Sale
  Braintree Town Hall Mall , 1 John F Kennedy Memorial Dr , Braintree
  9:00 am

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🗓 Events Nearby

Saturday April 25

• Seed to Sprout: A Beginner’s Plant Class (Adults & Seniors)
  Turner Free Library , 2 North Main Street , Randolph
  10:00 am
• Saturday Storytime for ages 3-7
  Stoughton Public Library Children's Craft Room
  10:00 am
• Petals & Promise: A Spring of Hope
  Thorny Lea Golf Club , 159 Torrey St , Brockton
  7:00 pm
• 9th Annual Bowl and Stroll Fundraiser
  Westgate Lanes, Pub & Grill, Arcade & Billiards , 65 Westgate Dr , Brockton
  7:30 pm
• Illusionist Rick Thomas
  Plymouth Memorial Hall , 83 Court St , Plymouth
  7:30 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Costco Wholesale Corporation posted a job opening for Cashier (Front End) in Avon. Apply here.
• Walmart, Inc. posted a job opening for Stocking Team Associate in Avon. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Avon here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Stoughton

• Hartford Softball Sweeps Gordon College in Midweek Double Header (hartfordhawks.com)
• Matthew Farwell kept ‘enduring' sexual interest in teen girls after Birchmore's death, authorities say (bostonglobe.com)

Brockton

• 1990s Brockton Murder And Rape Cases Cracked: DA (patch.com)

Randolph

• Popular Retailer Plans MA Comeback After Closing All Stores (patch.com)
• BAT and family of woman who fell off bus both say driver not to blame (enterprisenews.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A tire. (Thank you Joan B. for sending it in!)
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