MassRMV Announces 2024 Low Number Plate Lottery

BOSTON — The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) is announcing applications for the 2024 Low Number Plate Lottery will be available online at myRMV Online Service Center beginning at 9:00 a.m. on Monday, June 17, 2024.

To be eligible, applicants must apply for this year's lottery by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, August 16, 2024. Winners will be notified by mail if selected for a low number plate.  

This year, there are 298 plates available through the low plate lottery. Some of the available low plates include 34, 255, 1912, 2X, 33V, B8, and Z88. 

Applicants should note that there is no fee to apply for the lottery. However, should the applicant be selected as a winner, there is a special plate fee that will be required, as well as a standard registration fee.  

Customers are encouraged to visit the RMV's website or follow @MassRMV on X (formerly Twitter) for details about the lottery plate drawing to be announced later this summer, including the date, time, livestream link, and location of the event.  

In addition, lottery plate applicants will be sent a notification from the RMV to the email address they provided with lottery event details.  

The lottery results will be posted after the drawing on the RMV website.  

Lottery Rules and Eligibility Requirements 

• Only one entry per applicant will be accepted, regardless of the number of active registrations the applicant has on file with the RMV.  
• An applicant must be a Massachusetts resident with a currently active, registered, and insured passenger vehicle.  
• Companies/corporations may not apply.  
• MassDOT (Registry of Motor Vehicles, Highway, Mass Transit, and Aeronautics) employees, including contract employees, and their immediate family members are not eligible. (“Immediate family member” refers to one's parents, spouse, children, and brothers & sisters.) Individuals involved in the management of MassDOT divisions are also ineligible. 
• Requests for specific plate numbers will not be honored. Eligible applicants will be considered for all plates listed. Plates will be awarded in the order in which they are listed on Mass.Gov/RMV.  
• An applicant's registration and license cannot be in a non-renewal, suspended, or revoked status at the time of entry, the time of the drawing, or the time of the plate swap. As such, an applicant must not have any outstanding excise taxes, parking tickets, child support, warrants, or unpaid E-Z Pass/Pay by Plate violations.  
• Online entries will be accepted beginning at 9:00 a.m. on Monday, June 17, 2024, and must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, August 16, 2024. 
• Lottery results will be available on the RMV website: Mass.Gov/RMV. By law, lottery winners must be announced by Sunday, September 15, 2024. 
• All winners will be notified by mail with instructions on how to transfer their current registration to their new lottery plate. Winners will have until Tuesday, December 31, 2024, to swap their plates. 
• Unclaimed plates will be forfeited and awarded to the 25 alternate winners after Tuesday, December 31, 2024. 
• Plates will be registered to the winning applicant only.  
• All plates remain the property of the RMV even after registration.  
• All information received, including names of all applicants and the list of winners, is subject to release in accordance with the Massachusetts Public Records law. 

New Camp Is Safe Place for Children Suffering Loss to Addiction

By Breanna SteeleiBerkshires Staff
06:26AM / Saturday, December 27, 2025

Last year's Happy Campers courtesy of Max Tabakin.

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A new camp is offering a safe place for children who have lost a parent or guardian to addiction. 

 

Director Gayle Saks founded the nonprofit "Camp Happy Place" last year. The first camp was held in June with 14 children.

 

Saks is a licensed drug and alcohol counselor who works at the Brien Center. One of her final projects when studying was how to involve youth, and a camp came to mind. Camp had been her "happy place" growing up, and it became her dream to open her own.

 

"I keep a bucket list in my wallet, and it's right on here on this list, and I cross off things that I've accomplished," she said. "But it is the one thing on here that I knew I had to do."

 

The overnight co-ed camp is held at a summer camp in Winsted, Conn., where Saks spent her summers as a child. It is four nights and five days and completely free. Transportation is included as are many of the items needed for camping. The camp takes up to 30 children.

 

"I really don't think there's any place that exists specifically for this population. I think it's important to know, we've said this, but that it is not a therapeutic camp," Saks said.

 

She said the focus is on fun for the children, though they are able to talk to any of the volunteer and trained staff. The staff all have experience in social work, addiction and counseling, and working with children.