An Ohio woman got ridiculously lucky when she came to North Carolina for the Christmas holidays, bought a lottery ticket at the store and won the jackpot.
It was a Carolina Cash 5 ticket, which has a jackpot that grows until someone matches the winning numbers.
“Chloe Mays of Cleveland, Ohio, took a chance on a $1 Cash 5 ticket on Friday and won a $295,802 jackpot,” the N.C. Education Lottery said in a Dec. 30 news release.
“Mays, in town visiting family for the holidays, bought her lucky Quick Pick ticket from Clayton Mart on East Main Street in Clayton.”
Odds of winning a top prize in Carolina Cash 5 are 1 in 962,598.
Odds of someone from Ohio winning while on vacation are pretty much astronomical.
Mays claimed her money Monday, Dec. 29, at lottery headquarters in Raleigh, and the cash came to $212,238 after federal and state taxes, lottery officials said.
She didn’t say how she intends to spend the money.
Cash 5 is a nightly drawing and players pick five numbers from 1 to 43, or let a terminal pick for them.
Clayton is about an 18-mile drive southeast from downtown Raleigh.
Mark Price is a National Reporter for McClatchy News. He joined the network of newspapers in 1991 at The Charlotte Observer, covering beats including schools, crime, immigration, LGBTQ issues, homelessness and nonprofits. He graduated from the University of Memphis with majors in journalism and art history, and a minor in geology.
Growing up in Paris, Will Riddle dreamed of fashion and design. But he knew that in order to break into the industry, he’d have to leave home for a distant big city. That’s because his hometown was not Paris, France. It was Paris, Ohio, population 5,600.
Mr. Riddle got his first taste of urban life when he studied fashion design at Kent State University, about 20 minutes from the midsized Ohio city of Akron. After graduation he moved straight to New York, landing in a series of cramped Brooklyn rental apartments and high-wattage fashion jobs at 3.1 Phillip Lim, Oscar de la Renta, and the streetwear brand Kith.
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“New York was obviously where I had to go,” said Mr. Riddle, 37. “There’s no other place.”
So he was surprised when he started to feel pulled back to home. The stress of the rat race didn’t help. Ten years after moving to New York City, he began researching what kinds of fashion and design jobs might exist in Ohio, closer to his family and the comforts of home.
An answer came in the form of Arhaus, the high-end furniture retailer that was not only headquartered just outside of Akron, but also recruiting in New York City. In July 2022, Mr. Riddle moved back home, living first at his parents’ house, which was an hour from Arhaus’s headquarters. That October, he bought a 1923 Tudor house in Akron and began dating an old acquaintance, Ed Stockhausen.
Mr. Stockhausen, a Cleveland native, had spent eight years in Columbus, Ohio, as a lobbyist and public policy advocate. But as his parents got older, he too had felt compelled to return home.
“I wanted to have more good years with them as they were aging,” said Mr. Stockhausen, 40. Now he owned his own piece of historic real estate — an American Foursquare house in Cleveland’s Detroit Shoreway neighborhood, near downtown.
In 2024, after two years of commuting between their two houses, the couple were ready to move in together. If they both sold their homes, they could pay up to about $500,000 for a new house, with more left over for renovations.
They chose Cleveland over Akron both for the proximity to Mr. Stockhausen’s family and for the community they’d already cultivated. “We have a lot of friends here,” Mr. Stockhausen said. “There was something very appealing about staying close to that.”
They wanted a home that represented the rich architectural heritage of Cleveland, which spans Beaux-Arts, Victorian Italianate and midcentury modern, among other styles.
“I felt very strongly about not living in a new build, or a Ryan home, or some cul-de-sac cookie-cutter kind of thing,” Mr. Riddle said. The home they chose would have history and character. Both men had done significant renovations on their own houses and were not afraid of buying a property that needed work. Ample room to entertain and host overnight guests, as well as a yard for their two dogs, Franklin and Rockefeller, were also essential.
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It’s almost the most important day of the year… MGK Day, of course! 2024’s event includes five days of mgk-themed fun in Cleveland, OH as EST from all around the world gather to celebrate his music and hometown. Those days include everything from movie nights to sports games, and that’s not even touching on the main MGK Day festival on August 11th.
Here’s the official event lineup for MGK Day 2024:
Day 1: Friday, August 9th
4:00 PM – 7:00 PM Skate Day Crooked River Skate Park Rivergate Park, 1785 Merwin Ave
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM mgk Trivia & Game Night 27 Club Coffee 1215 W. 10th Street
12:00 PM – 8:00 PM League Park Invitational Charity Softball Game 6601 Lexington Avenue
FWD Nightclub Afterparty
Day 3: Sunday, August 11th
1:00 PM City Ride 4071 Lee Road
3:00 PM – 9:00 PM MGK Day on the Block (The Big Day) West 6th Street
Day 4: Monday, August 12th
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM Service Day @ 27 Club Coffee 1215 W. 10th Street
Sora 天 Anime Night | MGK Day Edition 1121 W. 10th Street
Day 5: Tuesday, August 13th
6:40PM MGK Day Guardians Stadium, 2401 Ontario St Get there early for the chance to get a free bag of 27 Club Coffee and see mgk throw the first pitch of the Cleveland Guardians game!
But beyond the official MGK Day events, there are a lot of fun locations for EST to check out while in Cleveland! We researched some iconic places you should stop by between the festivities.
FirstEnergy Stadium
First, we have to celebrate the reason we got an MGK Day in the first place! Mayor Justin Bibb officially announced that August 13th would be MGK Day each year after mgk sold out FirstEnergy Stadium in 2022, which made him the only Ohio artist to ever do so.
The ‘PRESSURE’ Music Video Locations
mgk’s latest music video to take place in Cleveland is ‘PRESSURE,’ which dropped in May 2023! Here are some filming locations you might run into on your trip:
Samsel Supply Store (0:29)
Ohio City Gas (0:50)
West 65th Street (2:05)
The Agora Theater & Ballroom
If you love the ‘Let You Go’ music video as much as we do, then the Agora needs no introduction! It’s where mgk and his crew filmed the iconic Bloom video, which has a 1960s late night show theme. Retro clothes aren’t required, but it might be fun to get dressed up for your visit!
The ‘Till I Die’ Music Video Locations
Throughout his career, mgk has regularly shown love to Cleveland and ‘Till I Die’ is the perfect example. Not only does the song talk about his hometown, but the music video pays visual homage to Cleveland by taking you on a trip around the city! Here are a few of the locations you can check out yourself:
The Soldiers’ & Sailors’ Monument in Public Square (0:43)
Knowles Street (1:25)
East 128th Street (1:33)
Golden Gate Plaza (1:44)
Shark’s Seafood & Deli (1:51)
East 119th & Union (4:13)
Dave’s Market Shaker Square (4:43)
Shaker Heights High School (5:00)
Are you heading to Cleveland to attend MGK Day? Have you been to any of these locations? Let us know in the comments below or hit us up on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!
CLEVELAND — An indoor bike park located inside of a warehouse is sure to keep your wheels spinning during the winter months.
Ray’s Indoor Mountain Bike Park is filled with bike ramps for riders to enjoy when the conditions aren’t feasible outside.
Nina Buitago, a rider who has been at Ray’s for years, has pushed the limits on freestyle riding. Additionally, she praises Ray’s for what it has to offer.
“Honestly, there’s very few places in the world like Ohio where you can build something like this,” said Buitrago.
The goal is to make it as realistic to outside paths as possible. General Manager Paul Radosevich uses the summer months to improve the warehouse.
“We’ve repurposed like telephone poles, random logs, big gigantic rocks,” said Radosevich. “This place is like, this is massive. No other city has anything like this scale.”
However, for Buitago, it fosters a community unlike any other.
“The community is awesome,” she said. “Ray’s is like a world-renowned place. Like I’ve met people from overseas that have come through here.”
It doesn’t take much to join in on the action, says Radosevich.
“As long as you can ride a two wheeler you can have fun in this building,” he said.
