Worthington real estate

Worthington schools restructuring only affects middle school students and then not even most middle school students.  Just the kids who would now attend one of the four (or five if you count Phoenix) middle schools in the Worthington City School District.

McCord Middle School -  Map - 1500 Hard Road, Columbus, OH 43235

Perry Middle School - Map - 2341 Snouffer Road Worthington, OH 43085

The Perry Middle School building on Snouffer Road will still house Phoenix Middle School.

Google Maps seems ahead of the game.  Google Maps gave me  1500 Hard Road as the address for Perry Middle School.    The snippet of a Google Map here shows Google identifying Perry's address as 1500 Hard Road, Columbus Ohio 43235 rather than the Snouffer Road address.  Google is identifying the 2341 Snouffer Road as Phoenix Middle School.  Currently both Phoenix and Perry Middle Schools are housed in the building at 2341 Snouffer Road which says "Perry" on the front of the building.

The maps of the current Worthington middle school attendence areas and elementary school attendences area  from the Worthington City School site:

Worthington City Schools Middle School Attendance Map - .pdf

Worthington City Schools Elementary School Attendance Map  - .pdf

If I understand this correctly the elementary feeder schools that will be affected are Brookside Estates Elementary,  Bluffsview Elementary and Granby Elementary.  Worthington area neighborhoods that are affected include: Bluffsview,  Brookside Estates, Brookside Woods (the part that is in Worthington schools of course, not the part in Dublin), Brookside Village,  The Lakes at Worthington, Oldstone Crossing, Smoky Row Manor, The Bluffs, Worthington Green, Worthingview and others.

Perhaps there is concern that McCord will be overcrowded though too, but the FAQ on the Worthington City School site tells projected class size.

Worthington schools restructuring

The NBC4i.com coverage includes a video   Middle School Restructuring A Hot Topic Among Worthington Parents  and says " Worthington Restructuring - Worthington City Schools is consolidating its middle schools due to declining enrollment."

The  Worthington middle schools not affected by the restructuring are Worthingway and Kilbourne. 

Previously about the  Worthington City School District:

Worthington School News  

Worthington's Bluffsview Elementary School  

Worthington Schools get A++

The Worthingway neighborhood in Worthington Ohio was built in the early 1960s. A Worthingway map shows streets now in the City of Worthington including  Longfellow, Poe, Hawthorne,  Stevenson, Thackery...  authors names... great authors names.   Other streets if they are writers names they are beyond my literary knowledge, Riley?, Bryant?, Tonbridge and Highgate?  

An ad for the Worthingway neighborhood from a Worthington Chamber of Commerce publication from 1964:

The Walter T.  Krumm advertisement for NEW homes in Worthingway says the Worthingway neigbhorhood is  north of "Worthington Proper"?  Worthingway and Worthington Estates were out in the country north of Worthington!  The two neighborhoods as well as what is NOW north of them  Olentangy Hills, Ville Charmonte and  Worthington Square was "out in the country" in the 1960s.  It sounds as if the Worthingway and Worthington Estates neighborhoods were in an unicorporated area outside the Cityof Worthington,  Worthingway would have been in Sharon Township when it was built.

Today the Worthingway neighborhood is well inside of the City of Worthington.

Worthington Estates ad from the chamber publication!

Image Credit: George Campbell shared a publication of the Worthington Chamber of Commerce published in 1964 via Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/65439930@N00/ / CC BY 2.0

ColumbusBestBlog.com is another blog I write.  It is actually my main blog, but it has a lot less content than either 'Worthington Old and News' or 'Discover Columbus Ohio', which are both real estate blogs.

ColumbusBestBlog.com is less real estate, it is a WordPress blog... and it has real estate on it but most of the posts are non real estate usually by design.

February 2010  on ColumbusBestBlog.com

Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit -  February 2010  A monthly tradition on ColumbusBestBlog.com

Buckeye Chuck predicts early spring Weather forecast by the local groundhog

Columbus Seasonal Kick Off  that is real estate!

Balletmet – Twitter Contest  Local non profit  group uses social media

Columbus 8th Worst Winter…  A national list of cities with bad weather ... I think it's wrong!

Columbus Valentine’s Day Poll  Valentines Day in a recession what were the plans?   I never mentioned the wonderful dinner at Columbus Fish Market or that I got  I got a one pound box of Godiva but the dog ate it, did I?

Central Ohio Business – Get on Google Local Business Center  New  opportunity for local businesses

Columbus “Panera It Forward” week… The local franchise paid it forward.  Lots of opportunities to be good neighbors in Central Ohio, the week of storms.

Ohio Schools – Consolidations A poll about a recommendation from the Brookings Institute for the State of Ohio

Columbus set a record for the snowiest February ever...  beating the standing recored from 100 years ago. It's on ColumbusBestBlog.com but not until March 2010. 

We built that snowman Saturday!

ColumbusBestBlog.com has links to all posts on  'Worthington Old and News' and 'Discover Columbus OH' on the home page, every day...  turnabout is fair play.  Chris Elizabeth Griffith posts her Bonita Springs Florida WordPress blog's posts on her ActiveRain blog weekly.  I want to do that but  I can't see doing that as I am lucky to write two posts in a week on CBB.  I mean to post there more...  Two in for March 2010!  and I guess that is the last week on the calendar here.  I wish I could make myself write there four or five times a week...

Home Market - Worthington Ohio  - 1941 

The photo is from March 1941, it was Lent...  look up to the right of the shop keepers head. "Birds Eye, Lenten Double Values, Haddock..." 

Home Market was a grocery store on High Street in Worthington. In a 1964 Worthington Chamber publication on Flickr an ad for Home Market gave the address as 660 High St. Worthington.   

660 High St. Worthington Ohio is  Scotties!

Worthington Memory a project of the Worthington Historical Society also tells me that the Home Market is the building which was Scottie Mac Beans for years,  now Scotties Coffee and Teas.

The photo is from Don O'Brien's Flickr Photostream.  O'Brien grew up on W.Wilson Bridge Rd in the 1930's and 1940's and has a great collection of Worthington photos.  O'Brien identifies the proprietor of the Home Market as Clyde Bachelor.  The Home Market photo is part of O'Brien's Worthington Business series on Flickr,

Home Market Ad - 1940

Worthington Streets- the business district

A 1980 Worthington Memorial Day Parade Photo on the Worthington Memory site says Home Market is in the background.  1980?  Really?  It is hard to believe a grocery store like that could have survived that long.  In the era when Don O Brien grew up there was a Kroger and an A and P right across the street on High Street in Old Worthington.

Image credit :   http://www.flickr.com/photos/dok1/ / CC BY 2.0

Worthington News on Facebook.  I have a Worthington "Page" on Facebook. 

I am not real good with Facebook... Wall, a Page, your profile, a group.... 

I understand Facebook is changing again.  I started a page about Worthington, so become a Fan of Worthington News if you are a fan of Worthington Ohio.  Much but not all of it is what is on the Worthington Old and News blog.

If you are in Central Ohio and have a "Page" let me know...

Happy 206th Birthday to St. John Episcopal Church in Worthington Ohio.

Somewhere I have a picture of the historical marker at St. John Episcopal Church in Worthington Ohio.... found it! In  Worthington and Parts Adjacent  the historical marker pictured says:

"On February 6, 1804, the Articles of Agreement establishing St. John's Church of Worthington were executed" 

Articles of Agreement executed  is the same thing as a birthday? Isn't it?  The historical marker goes on about that the church was planned in New England.  St. John Church was the first Episcopal Church in the Northwest Territory.

Ohio Channel about the historical marker with a picture of it you can read.

This photo was taken last March.  Spring.... it is going to be spring soon!

If I took a photo of St. John Episcopal Church today it would be a beautiful  snowy "New England" scene.  I heard on the news last night 7" of snow but it snowed more overnight.  I was out already this morning... but not in Old Worthington. Maybe later today I will run over and take a photo of the church on it's 206th Birthday.  The church is right on the Worthington Village Green. St. John Episcopal's address is 700 High St. Worthington OH 43085

I believe the birthday is for the church, not the building... but I'd be taking a photo of the building of course.

Happy Birthday to  St. John Episcopal Church in Worthington Ohio

More about Worthington Ohio

Worthington Ohio this day in history

Worthington a New England village in Central Ohio

Old Worthington News

Worthington Ohio  1936 -1937

An abstract photo of a boy and his dog from the 1930s in Worthington Ohio is one of my favorites on Flickr.  It's another photo from Don O'Brien who shares photos on Flickr from his life growing up near Worthington in the 1930s and 1940s.  O'Briens shadow is there on the frozen Olentangy River, along with the reflection of Wilson Bridge.  In the description of the shot he says:  "Chink, the best dog I've ever known, crossing the Olentangy on ice during the winter of 1936-37"

When I drive across the bridge over the Olentangy river on Wilson Bridge Road I don't think of the present day bridge being "Wilson Bridge."    I think of it being a bridge on Wilson Bridge Road.  The bridge was relocated I believe. 

In fact on Worthington Memory (Worthington Historical Society) they have another one of O'Briens photos of the bridge from the 1930s and he says there  "This iron bridge replaced the wooden covered bridge over the Olentangy River at Wilson Bridge Road, which was washed away in 1911. The iron bridge was demolished during the construction of I-270 in the late 1960s."

Worthington Memory has photos of earlier versions of the covered bridge and says "The plot of land on the north side of Wilson Bridge Road was owned by William S. Wilson in 1910.

My favorite photo of Wilson Bridge is the reflection of the bridge with O'Brien on it as he looks down at Chink, his dog.

Worthington Ohio history in photos

Old Worthington really

The Kroger Grocery Store in Worthington   Old Worthington, High Street in 1939

Glee

Image credit and license   http://www.flickr.com/photos/dok1/ / CC BY 2.0 

Columbus Ohio is Buckeye Chuck Territory and he did NOT see his shadow! 

Let the celebrations begin!  We are going to have an early Spring in Central Ohio if the little fella is right. 

I heard it on Twitter this morning among the grumbles that other groundhogs did see their shadows.

The image is a Real Living Ecard.

We eat at the Polaris, Smokey Bones a lot.   Officially the name of the Polaris area restaurant is Smokey Bones Bar & Fire Grill.

Smokey Bones has great coupons... In the Columbus Dispatch... Sunday Dispatch I assume.  What does a Sunday Dispatch cost?  Isn't a "Buy One Entree, Get One Free" coupon worth the cost of a Sunday Columbus Dispatch?

I did not really know where the Smokey Bones coupons come from... but we always seem to have one.   The Columbus Dispatch, The Bag, the mailbox, direct from some barbecue heaven ???   Dino the manager of the Polaris Smokey Bones  said the Smokey Bones coupons are in the Columbus Dispatch.   I'll believe him.

I don't know when we started going to the Smokey Bones at Polaris.  It is a chain* and it is not the only barbecue place in the Polaris area.  Smokey Bones might not even officially be my favorite barbecue restaurant in the Polaris area but it is the barbecue restaurant we go to the most often because  those coupons keep on coming. 
 
Smokey Bones at Polaris was our first choice last Saturday night.  Their parking lot was jammed so we went to our second choice, Claddagh.  Bad decision.  We should have just waited for a table at Smokey Bones.  I wrote a post about dinner Saturday night at Claddagh.  Our waitress Jessie was great, the rest of the experience... not so great.

Recently I won a free happy hour at Smokey Bones for my office.  We went Thursday... It was a real small group from Real Living HER Worthington.  I won the Free happy hour by putting a business card in a box in their lobby.  A FREE happy hour is free appetizers.  We bought our drinks!

Stimulating the local economy...

1.  Buy a Columbus Dispatch

2.  Pray for a Smokey Bones coupon

3.  Visit Smokey Bones at Polaris (Polaris Town Center - south side of Polaris Parkway... it looks like it is built of Lincoln Logs)

4.  Remember to put your business card in, in the box in the lobby for a drawing...

5.  Tell 'em Maureen sent you

* Not being a food blogger I have the freedom to eat at chain restaurants and blog about it.  Yes we use coupons... week one and week two are gone in the photo.  They were buy one entree, get one free.  Mm mm good!    We missed using the buy one entree get one free coupon that expired on 1-17-2010.  Now that I've tasted their appetizers it could be harder to ignore those appetizer coupons.

Thanks to Dino, Rob (or Robb?), Erin and Smokey Bones at Polaris. 

I don't like the  Smokey Bones website but here's a link.  Odd noises, slow  loading flash, the Smokey Bones website tried to tell me Easton was the closest Smokey Bones to the 43085 ZIP code.... WRONG!

This or something very similar was first published on ColumbusBestBlog.com , another blog I write.

Worthington Schools a bus on W. Wilson Bridge Rd. Don O'Brien  (Dok1 on Flickr)  calls his photo  "School Bus on Snow-covered Road  (1938)"

Mr. O'Brien who grew up in the Worthington area says  "I don't recall our school having any "snow days". The bus is a 1937 Dodge that replaced the 1929 Ford."

Wilson Bridge Road was north of Worthington in the 1930's. It was an unincorporated area in Sharon Township in the 1930s and after.    On another Worthington photo with a bus on Flickr, Don O'Brien says the Methodist Childrens Home was in the country north of Worthington.  Worthington did not grow much from 1803 to ???  the 1950s?  

130 W. Wilson Bridge Rd. -  Map today.

There is a discussion and another photo on the Flickr  photo showing what is at 130 W. Wilson Bridge today. 

More Old Worthington - not real old but older...  

When Worthington's W. Wilson Bridge Rd. moved

W. Wilson Bridge Road - Worthington history

Worthington Schools

Worthington History - Slate Hill Schools  - this was Sharon Township schools

Glee

Image Credit: Don O'Brien shared this photo with a Creative Commons license.  Visit his Flickr Photostream for lots of wonderful Worthington images   http://www.flickr.com/photos/dok1/ / CC BY 2.0