A Highland Township woman is celebrating a Michigan Lottery Powerball win.
Kathryn Peltier, 55, said her $150,000 prize will be life-changing.
Four numbers on one of her Powerball tickets matched the Sept. 1 winning number as did the 05 in that ticket’s Powerball position, which multiplied her $50,000 win to $150,000.
She bought her tickets online at the state’s website.
“I saw the Powerball jackpot was over $1 billion and thought to myself: ‘You can’t win if you don’t play,’ so I logged into my Lottery account and bought a few tickets,” she said.
The next day she saw an email from the Michigan Lottery telling her to claim her prize.
“I assumed it was a small win, so it was amazing when I logged in and saw $150,000 in my account,” she said, adding that she still wasn’t sure, so she s