The Worthington Estates "Back to School" Supply List  for the 2011- 2012 school year!    The Worthington Estates Elementary School Supply list is on the Worthington City School District's website  and is a three page .pdf (Acrobat Reader) document here: The Worthington Estates Back to School Supply List  Worthington Estates Elementary School is located at 6760 Rieber St. Worthington, Ohio 43085 Worthington Schools Back to School 2011 Worthington schools are "excellent" (the 2009 - 2010 school year) last years grades for the school district and individual schools will be out soon.  08/17/2011

Worthington's Granby Elementary School's "Back to School" supply list is available online.   As the Granby Elementary sign on Hard Road says the first full day of school is August 24, 2011.  Previously on Worthington Old and News, a site about Worthington Ohio real estate : Worthington Schools Back to School 2011.   The  Granby Elementary "Back to School" supply list for the Granby Elementary school is a .pdf (Acrobat Reader document )  from the Worthington Schools website.    The Granby Elementary School supply list is on the  Worthington City School District's website  as a .pdf (Acrobat Reader) document along with supply lists for other elementary schools in the Worthington City School District. The link is on the right side of the home page now (August 2011.)  As people in the area ... 08/16/2011

The Evening Street Elementary School's  "Back to School" supply list  for the 2011-2012 school year is online. The school supply lists for Evening Street School  along with the school supply lists for other Worthington elementary schools are on the Worthington City School District website.  The elementary school Back to School lists are on the school district site at the link on the right side of the page that says: "2011-12 Elementary School Supply Lists"   There are separate school supply lists for : Kindergarten                                     1st Grade (Last Name A-M)           1st Grade (Last Name N-Z)           2nd Grade 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade 6th Grade The school supply lists for each grade (and two for first grade) are .pdf acrobat reader documents. Evening Street Ele... 08/15/2011

Colonial Hills Elementary School's "Back to school"  supply list for the 2011 - 2012 school year The Colonial Hills  Elementary School Supply list is on the Worthington City School District's website  and is a .pdf (Acrobat Reader) document that I will link here. The school supply list is two pages with all grades on the same list.  COLONIAL HILLS SCHOOL SUPPLY LIST ~ 2011-2012 The school located at  5800 Greenwich St., Worthington, Ohio 43085 has a website too:  Colonial Hills Elementary School  and the school supply list is there, on the right sidebar in downloads too. Worthington schools are "excellent" (the 2009 - 2010 school year) last years grades for the school district and individual schools will be out soon.  Worthington Schools Back to School 2011 08/15/2011

Slate Hill Elementary - "Back to School" Supply List for the 2011 - 2012 school year There are seven separate Back to School supply lists for Slate Hill Elementary School on the Worthington City School District website.  Each grade kindergarten through sixth grade has a different supply list.  2011 - School Supply Lists including Slate Hill Elementary. The school's website:  Worthington Schools - Slate Hill Elementary School  The school district's site : Worthington City School District Worthington schools are "excellent" (the 2009 - 2010 school year) grades for the 2010 - 2011 school year for the  school district and each individual schools will be out soon.  Slate Hill Elementary School is located at 7625 Alta View Boulevard Worthington, Ohio 43085    Worthington Schools Back to Schoo... 08/15/2011

Thomas Worthington "Cardindals"  -  High  School Football Schedule -  2011 The information for this post was harvested from MAXPreps.com - Thomas Worthington Cardinals Football Schedule 2011*Date / Home or @ Away  / Opponent & School District  - Thomas Worthington Cardinals 2011 08/26 @ Jonathan Alder H. S. (Jonathan Alder Local School District) 09/02 @ Whetstone H.S. (Columbus City School District) 09/09 HOME Game Westerville Central H.S.  (Westerville City Schools) 09/16 HOME Game Upper Arlington H. S.  (Upper Arlington School District) 09/23 @ Hilliard Davidson H. S.  (Hilliard City School District) 09/30 HOME Game Dublin CoffmanH. S.  (Dublin City Schools) 10/07 HOME Game Westland H. S.  (South-Western City School District) 10/14 @ Hilliard Darby H.S.  (Hilliard City School District... 08/13/2011

The Bluffsview Elementary School "Back to School Supply List"  is available online.   The Bluffsview Elementary School website says: "For current information on Class Supply Lists, Newsletters, Announcements, PTA News, etc., please go to the Parent/Student Portal at www.worthington-portal.org.  You will need to enter the email that you've registered with school as your UserID and use the Password sent to you from Computer Services." Actually on the school's site they have the link to the portal at http://www.worthington-portal.org but since it requires a sign in...  no point in linking here.  Or the Bluffsview 2011-12 Elementary School Supply Lists are posted on the Worthington City School District site too.  Front page under news right now. No sign in required.  There are seven .pdf do... 08/12/2011

  Worthington homes for sale brought to you by Maureen McCabe of Real Living HER The graph shows inventory (homes for sale, in this case single family homes in the Worthington City School District) for the past 15 months.  The 3.8 months of inventory is low in comparison to other many Columbus area school districts. Compare homes for sale in Worthington schools with Franklin County, Ohio homes for sale July 2011. The 7.5 months of inventory (homes for sale) in Franklin County in July 2011 is pretty balanced, not a buyers market (lots of homes to choose from) and not a sellers market (buyers have less homes to choose from.) Worthington homes for sale a market report for July 2011 3.8 months of inventory based on recent home sales The 3.8 months of inventory of Worthington homes for sale ... 08/11/2011

The Wilson Hill Elementary School Back to School Supply List for the 2011 - 2012 school year is online along with all the other list for other Worthington City Schools.   Here is a link to the Wilson Hill Elementary School Back to School Supply List 2011 - 2012 in a .pdf file. It says kids need to have supplies on the first day of school, August 23, 2011 so hit those schools supply sales now.  More about Wilson Hill neighborhood and Worthington Back to School 2011  - Worthington City School District Wilson Hill Elementary School Report Card (the 2009 - 2010 school year) Worthington schools are "excellent" (the 2009 - 2010 school year) Wilson Hill the neighborhood Worthington homes for sale   08/10/2011

A "Christmas tree" in the oldest commercial building in the state of Ohio.  The ghost of Christmas Past. Or perhaps the distinction is that the Old Worthington building is the oldest commercial building in Ohio in continual use... something like that. An artificial Christmas tree in the abandoned upstairs of this Old Worthington commercial building is all alone. Real Living HER (formerly known as Real Living HER ) is moving into the building at 681 High Street in about a week.   I got an opportunity to see the building on Sunday.  You would think I'd be sharing a photo of the reception area with it's old  fireplace and hardwood floor.  Or the pretty new work areas...  or the very attractive new stairway to the second floor.  No...  the second floor which is not part of our office is  wh... 08/08/2011

My loot from last Saturday's  Worthington Farmers Market included Swiss chard  zuchinni yellow squash  green pepper Italian peppers the cutest little cabbage Oh and a treat for my dear doggie, a "pupcake" from Blue Frost Cupcakes.      I found a recipe and cooked the Italian peppers... they turned out pretty good. Cooking them taught me something about buying Italian peppers.  I found a recipe for Swiss chard.  It did not turn out well....   Today's loot from the Worthington Farmers Market?   a melon beets Cubano peppers green pepper a huge tomato zuchinni yellow squash a bunch of cilantro a head of romaine I think that's it.  I meant to go back and get a 'pupcake from Blue Frost Cupcake for my sweet dog, but I forgot.  Today was the Community Blessing of the pets at the Worthington Uni... 08/06/2011

Columbus, Ohio 43235 home sales brought to you by Maureen McCabe of Real Living HER  The graph shows homes for sale and homes sold in the Columbus, Ohio 43235 zip code for the past 15 months through June 2011.  This is only single family homes.   Columbus, Ohio 43235 home sales  a market report for June 2011 Homes for sale - 168 Homes sold - 26 Homes for sale were up 9.8 % from a year ago.  June 2011 home sales in Columbus, Ohio 43235 were down 33.3% from last year.  Columbus, Ohio 43235 homes for sale 6.5 months of homes for sale based on recent sales That an increase of 64.7% from last year in June when there was 3.9 months of inventory (Columbus, Ohio 43235 homes for sale.)  Columbus, Ohio 43235 home prices Average active price $260,000 Average sale price $230,000 Median sale price $... 08/03/2011

Worthington home buyers now can access the entire inventory of Worthington homes for sale by using the link below. Once you open the link, you get the exact data as displayed in the Columbus MLS database. By clicking on the photo, you can get additional photos, by clicking on the address, you get a map, and by clicking on Franklin, you get access to tax information, mortgage amounts, transfer dates on each property. Hopefully this is a way buyers for Worthington homes can get up to date information to make an informed purchase. We can show you any of these homes, so please contact The Jackson Team at 614-431-1220. Click Here to Access the Entire Inventory of Worthington Homes for Sale!   08/03/2011

Home sellers a question...  Q. Worthington home buyers Googling YOUR home's address online is truly important.  Or is it?  Would a buyer be searching for your address? Trulia.com a ginormous real estate site tells you to Google your address.  Would home buyers looking for Worthington Ohio homes for sale be searching for your address?  Perhaps... if the buyer is sitting in front of your house they may search the Internet for your address.   On Google or another search engine.  Google is the biggest. They do.  Buyers do Google your address.  When they see the sign. If they have a smart phone. Or any phone if they have Curbside. Or when they get back to a computer.  They do search for your address,  if they drove by and saw the sign and knew what street they were on and what the house numb... 08/03/2011

Worthington home sales brought to you by Maureen McCabe of Real Living HER   The graph shows home sales in the City of Worthington for the past 15 months through June 2011.  The light green bar is homes for sale and the dark green bar is homes sold.  The graph and market report are single family homes only.  Central Ohio home sales - the market report  Your Central Ohio real estate market Worthington home sales a market report for June 2011 Homes for sale - 65 Homes sold - 22 Inventory (homes for sale) in Worthington is down 22.6% from June 2010.   June 2011 single family home sales in the City of Worthington were up 22.2% from a year earlier. Worthington homes for sale 3 months of inventory based on recent sales The 3 months of inventory available in City of Worthington is down 36.7% f... 08/02/2011

This Friday August 5, 2011 is First Friday in Worthington.    This is the second First Friday for the City of Worthington.  The first First Friday was July 1, 2011. The NEW and improved Worthington.org site says First Friday: "Come to Downtown Worthington the first Friday of every month for First Friday! Shops will be open late and visitors will be greeted with specials, arts and live entertainment. The event runs from 6pm -9pm. Don’t miss this great Worthington event!" Downtown Worthington Did a Ghost run a Worthington business out of town? Old Worthington Businesses - Old Old Worthington a historic district HER Worthington office opening in early August 2011 Edit August 2012 to add the sites name to the photo.  Perhaps fewer real estate agents will grab the photo and try to pass it of... 08/01/2011

The NEW "Old Worthington" HER office is opening in "early August" The Real Living HER sign is up.   The photo of the new sign on High Street in Old Worthington was taken about 10 days ago. Sounds like the Worthington HER office in Old Worthington is opening in early August.  The press release we (agents in the Worthington and Lewis Center offices) and the press were sent today tells us so...I go by the building at 681 High Street to check the progress every week or so.  I have never before (I don't believe) shared a press release in a blog post but it's always fun to do something NEW....  For Immediate Release: 7/29/2011 Real Living HER Expands with Two New Offices in Worthington and Lewis Center   Columbus, OH - Today Real Living HER, central Ohio’s largest real estate brokerage, annou... 07/29/2011

The Shops at Worthington Place had their Ground Breaking Ceremony today. I went.  I sweated.  I listened.  They announced new tenants!   Coming soon to The Shops at Worthington Place: Panera Bread Johnson's Ice Cream Swan Cleaners Swan Cleaners was the first tenant when the Worthington shopping center was built in the 1970s?      Tom Carter is the one without a hardhat.  He has one in earlier photos...  he was putting one on in the series of action photos I took of the shoveling  Ground Breaking ceremony at Shops at Worthington Place.   The area between the Kroger store and the shops is going to be green space?  A park like place that people will want to be!  New and existing tenants at The Shops at Worthington Place They talked about another tenant that they had wanted to announce, so ... 07/28/2011

Rush Creek Village in Worthington is part of Ohio Modern...  The Ohio Historical Society has been working on a project about our recent history...  A lot of  the report about Ohio Modern focuses on Dayton, Ohio and it's suburbs... The "Ohio Historical Society" project defines the Ohio Modern period as 1940 through 1970. The Dayton area was not in a vacuum by any stretch of the imagination, Ohio our recent history! '4.0 DESIGN TRENDS IN OHIO, 1940-1970' (link below) says "In Ohio, traditional architectural embellishments remained popular throughout the recent past period. Modern styles, such as International and Wrightian, were employed on a much more limited basis." ...part of that limited basis is in Worthington.  There are case studies of modern styles in the "4.0 DESIGN TRENDS IN OHI... 07/26/2011

Worthington schools -  Back to school 2011....   Worthington's first day of school is August 23, 2011 Sunday's Columbus Dispatch reported that Westerville and Grandview Heights first day of school this year is August 17, 2011! School Days...  when did school start when you "were a kid?" Glee...  1937 Worthington Schools - old school Worthington Schools  - "I don't recall our school having any "snow days" Worthington History - Slate Hill School- Slate Hill was Sharon Township Schools The back to school image is a Real Living ecard.  I am an agent with Real Living HER. 07/18/2011