April 20 to 26, 2009 New listings in  Worthington home by neighborhood ranging in price from $109,900 to $294,900. There were eleven "NEW" residential listings this week in the City of Worthington. Colonial Hills - 2 Davis Estates -1 Linworth - 1 Proprieters Point Condos - 4 SE Worthington (but north of Colonial Hills) -1 Village Green Condo - 1 Wilson Hill -  1 Looking for a good sign?  The listing in Wilson Hill is already in contract. Also back on the market?  A condo in Worthinglen and a house in Worthingway. Price reductions - Three homes were price reduced in Worthington in the past week.  Price reductions ranged from a $4.00 (yes that is four dollars) to a $13,000 price reduction.  The price range of the homes now is  $131,820 to $515,000.  The neighborhoods where those homes are... 04/26/2009

5750 N High St.  Worthington, OH 43085 04/25/2009

7625 High St. Columbus Ohio 43235 04/25/2009

Really this is a picture of Old Worthington. Not 1803 old... Worthington was established in 1803. When were camera's invented?  The photo is from the 1930's. Don O'Brien  dok1 on Flickr who grew up in Worthington shared it on Flickr (with a Creative Commons license that allows me to use the photo here.)  If you want to see some great old, Old Worthington photos go to dok1's Worthington Streets series.  It's fun to picture the streets now and what it looks liked then.  I would assume High Street was narrower?  It is not a brick road anymore.  In his remarks about the photo Mr. O'Brien says the street car tracks had been removed from High St.  Can you imagine a street car on High St. in Worthington.  Wow. Not Old Worthington Last Wednesday I made a picture of the Marcus Cinema at Crosswo... 04/24/2009

  That's the local weather forecast today, 80° and sunny. Happy Arbor Day! It is "National"  Arbor Day in Ohio and IN, MI, MN,PA, VA, WI and more. KY and WV already had theirs... their Arbor Day.  The National Arbor Day Foundation's site says "What is Arbor Day?Arbor Day is a nationally-celebrated observance that encourages tree planting and care. National Arbor Day is the last Friday in April, but many states observe Arbor Day on different dates according to their best tree-planting times."  Arbor Day 2009 in Central Ohio should be beautiful. There's a tree planting on the Village Green in Worthington today, Worthington Ohio Tree City USA. There is a tree planting at Franklin Park Conservatory at 1777 E. Broad Street today, just east of downtown at 11:30 according to the Franklin Park... 04/23/2009

    Worthington will celebrate Arbor Day on Friday April 24, 2009 at the Village Green. At noon a tree will be planted on the northwest quadrant of the Village Green, in honor of Arbor Day 2009..  Worthington Ohio Earth Day 2009 More information from Worthington about Arbor Day and Earth Day 2009    Compliments of Maureen McCabe Real Living HER Worthington 04/22/2009

200 Hutchinson Avenue Columbus OH 43235 04/22/2009

  Today at  1:30 p.m. students from Colonial Hills Elementary School will gather with community members to plant a tree in honor of Earth Day.  Earth Day 2009 and Arbor Day info from the City of Worthington .PDF The tree will be planted in Selby Park in the Colonial Hills neighborhood, 358 Selby Boulevard South. Worthington's Colonial Hills Neighborhood Worthington's  Colonial Hills History The image is an Earth Day ecard from Real Living.  I am a real estate agent with Real Living HER in Worthington Ohio. 04/21/2009

A weekly update April 13 to April 19, 2009 New Worthington Listings by neighborhood ranging in price from $169,900 to $999, 800. Colonial Hills - 3 Kilbourne Village -1 Old Worthington - 1 Plesenton - 2 Potters Creek - 1 Proprieters Point (condo) - 1 Shakers Square - 1 Wilson Hill - 1 Worthington Park - 1 One of the 12 new listings went in contract in less than a week... a good sign! Homes back on the market in Worthington by neighborhood prices range from $157,000 to $482,000.  Old Worthington - 1 Worthingway -1 Worthinglen -1 Worthington Homes Sold (closed) by neighborhood sales prices range from  $150,000 to $315,000, discount from list price averaged 5%. Wilson Hill - 2 Worthington Park - 1 Worthingway - 1 Worthington Homes price reductions by neighborhood list prices range now rang... 04/21/2009

  773 High St. Worthington OH 43085 04/19/2009

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I did two tic-tac-toe (three rows across,  three columns down)  "Speechless Sunday" posts for Easter Sunday: Worthington Easter Sunday 2009  the historic St. John's AME Church in Worthington is bottom center. Columbus  Easter Sunday 2009  the new St. John's AME Church at Crosswoods is top left. I must have read about it.  Yet I was surprised though when I went to take a photograph of the historic  St. John's AME Church that a new congregation worships there now... I Googled to find where St. John's AME had moved and found their website which gave their new address 7700 Crosswoods.  I was thinking of the area  with the theather, restaurants, hotels...(south of Campusview Blvd.)  I should have looked  at a map, I went to take a photo and realized the new St. John's AME Church is where the... 04/12/2009

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The quote in the shape of a cross on the sign on the Worthington Green is from George MacLeod (I had to Google him): "I simply argue that the cross be raised again at the centre of the marketplace as well as on the steeple of the church." The Village Green in Worthington remains a crossroad of Central Ohio with the intersection of State Route 161 (Dublin Granville Road)  and State Route 23 (High Street) dividing the Village Green. Yearly Central Ohio Christians of many faiths meet at noon on Good Friday at this crossroads.       Details of the 2009 Worthington Community Good Friday Service according to a brochure from the Worthington United Methodist Church: "Good Friday, April 10:  Community Worship Service, at 12:00 Noon - This service begins at  Worthington Presbyterian Church, trav... 04/09/2009

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New Listings Last week there were four new City of Worthington residential listings ranging from $252,900 to $579.900.  Where?  Worthington Estates East, Colonial Hills (that house should be a back on market not a new listing), a house off Worthington Galena Road and a new listing just north of Riverlea. In addition there is a Worthington home that went back on the market, the listing had expired. It was relisted by the same agent...a  condo off Proprieters Road. Contingent and Under Contract Two properties in contract contingent (contingent on finace and inspection) those homes are a Riverlea* home and  a house in Wilson Hill.  Looking for good signs? One of the two new residential listings had been on the market less than a week. One Worthington home went under contract (no contingenc... 04/05/2009

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Worthington History Worthington has more history than most Columbus suburbs or celebrates that history more than other Cental Ohio communities.  The history in the area goes back further than 1803 when settlers from Massachusetts and Connecticut settled the land east of the Olentangy River and named the village "Worthington." Ancient History The City of Worthington's website calls the Jeffers Mound west of the river,  "Worthington's Oldest Manmade Structure." The ancient Indian Earthworks are from the Hopewell culture. The mound was part of larger ancient earthworks.  According to the City of Worthington website: "The earthworks are believed to have been built by the Hopewell people between 100 BC and AD 400, although archeologists have found signs of human habitation at this site dati... 04/02/2009

    The Colonial Hills neighborhood is on the south end of Worthington, east of High Street.  The east end of the neighborhood is bound by the rail road tracks. It's a short walk, bike ride or drive to shop in downtown Worthington or the Graceland Shopping Center.   Worthington Parks in the area include Park Boulevard Park, Indianola Park and Selby Park, right in the Colonial Hills neighborhood.   Indianola Park - 5500 Indianola Avenue  3.2 Acres Selby Park - 358 Selby Boulevard South 4.1 Acres Park Blvd (formerly known as Devil's Hill Park) - 125 Park Boulevard  6.1 Acres    Schools Public and Private Colonial Hills Elementary School - 5800 Greenwich Street St. Michael's Catholic Elementary School - 5800 Greenwich Street   Home Sales   YTD 2009 sold price range  $139,900  to $220,000 2... 04/01/2009

There is a W.O.O.F. meeting at the Old Library today....March 30, 2009 at 7 to 8:30 PM*. W.O.O.F. is Worthington Organized Off-Leash Friends... this is W.O.O.F's first meeting about the status of an off-leash park project in Worthington. W.O.O.F. has more info on the Sustainable Worthington website. This morning I was looking for something I wrote about Walkable Worthington on one of my blogs a year or so ago...  sadly sometimes it is faster for me to leave the blogs and search the whole web to find my stuff... and I found W.O.O.F.  and the whole Sustainable Worthington Website... The Sustainable Worthington site is interesting. Walking, biking, buses,  gardening, rain, the Olde Worthington Farmers Market.... and more. The dog (mine) is used for illustration only. He's not off-leash ma... 03/30/2009