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Library Sale

Tremont Road Library

March 1-31

Spring-Themed Scavenger Hunt Lane Road Library

March 1

Upper Arlington High School Winter Band Concert

7:30 p.m.

Upper Arlington High School Performing Arts Center, 1625 Zollinger Rd. www.uaband.org

March 4

Stories and More

10:30-11 a.m.

Tremont Road Library

March 7

Book Chats

2-3 p.m.

Miller Park Library

March 10

Tech Help at Miller Park Miller Park Library www.ualibrary.org

March 10

Family Tech Fair

3-5 p.m.

Tremont Road Library

March 13-17

Upper Arlington Schools Spring Break

March 14, April 10

Affordable Internet Help with Connectivity Champions

11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Tremont Road Library

March 14

Grandview Heights High School Band Concert

7 p.m.

GHHS Auditorium www.ghschools.org

March 15

Paint a Flower Pot

3:30-5 p.m.

Tremont Road Library

March 15

Writers’ Group Kick-Off

6-7:30 p.m.

Lane Road Library

March 16

Grandview Heights High School

Jazz Ensemble Concert

7 p.m.

GHHS Auditorium

www.ghschools.org

March 19

Family Fun and Games

2-4 p.m.

Tremont Road Library

March 25

Friends of UA Parks Volunteer Day

9 a.m.-noon

Smith Nature Park www.upperarlingtonoh.gov

March 26

Cozy Corner Café

5-6 p.m.

Tremont Road Library

March 30

Red Cross Blood Drive

11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Tremont Road Library

April 2

Author Visit: Ryan T. Higgins

2-3:15 p.m.

Tremont Road Library

April 3-7

Grandview Heights Schools Spring Break

April 4

Book Chats

2-3 p.m.

Miller Park Library

Red Cross Blood Drive March 30, April 14

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April 8

Easter Egg Hunt

10-11 a.m.

Wyman Woods Park www.grandviewheights.gov

April 12

Indoor Carnival Games

3:30-5 p.m.

Tremont Road Library

April 13

No-Homework Book Club

6:30-7:30 p.m.

Lane Road Library

April 14

Coffee & Conversation with Superintendent Andy Culp

8:30-9:30 a.m.

Larson Middle School, 1242 Oakland Ave. www.ghschools.org

April 14

Cake Walk

6:30-9:30 p.m.

GHHS Gymnasium www.ghschools.org

April 14

Red Cross Blood Drive

11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Tremont Road Library

April Friends15 of UA Parks Volunteer Day 9 a.m.-noon

Thompson Park www.upperarlingtonoh.gov

April Garden15Swap

10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Miller Park Library

April 18

Orchestra Concert

7 p.m.

GHHS Auditorium

www.ghschools.org

April 20

Middle School Spring Choral Concert

7 p.m.

GHHS Auditorium www.ghschools.org

April 22

Arts and Crafts Supply Swap

10 a.m.-4 p.m. Lane Road Library

April 26

Middle School Band Concerts

6 p.m. grades 5-6, 7 p.m. grades 7-8

GHHS Auditorium

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April 26

Upper Arlington High School Spring Band Concert

7:30 p.m.

Upper Arlington High School Performing Arts Center, 1625 Zollinger Rd. www.uaband.org

April 27

Grandview Heights High School Band Concert

7 p.m.

GHHS Auditorium

www.ghschools.org

April 29

Author Visit: Kristy Boyce

1-2:15 p.m.

Tremont Road Library

April 29

After Hours Laser Tag

7-8:30 p.m.

Tremont Road Library

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Your Friendly Neighborhood Podcasters

When you think of entertainment, you may not think of local municipality meetings. The biweekly podcast by City Manager Steve Schoeny and City Attorney Darren Shulman, however, may make your morning commute more interesting.

The first episode of Won’t You Be Our Neighbor premiered in January 2022 after Schoeny and Shulman had the idea to humanize and put some faces – or voices – to the people making decisions in Upper Arlington.

The idea was conceived several years ago, but it didn’t get off the ground until Brian Hedge joined the team as community affairs manager.

Shulman says “it started with a dream” when he was city attorney in Delaware, Ohio, always working his way onto the city’s radio show, Delaware City Digest.

“I’d been thinking about it because it’s really hard to get people connected to the city,” Schoeny says, “and in particular, when you’re talking about coming out of the pandemic, we’d forgotten how to talk to each other.”

Hedge was the most tech savvy of the group, so he bought and set up the equip-

ment to make Schoeny and Shulman’s dream a reality.

“So often (the) government’s just putting out a press release that tells you where to pick up your trash, or a zoning notice, or a parks brochure, and the residents don’t get to understand who’s behind that and some of the thought level that goes into that,” Schoeny says.

Won’t You Be Our Neighbor reveals that there are people behind the city’s actions, like community development manager Chad Gibson.

“We did a thing called Everybody Hates Chad about our community development manager, who’s responsible for saying no to people when they want to put an addition on their house and it doesn’t fit with the zoning, or when someone does put an addition on their house and the neighbors don’t like it, so everybody hates Chad,” Schoeny says.

The pair’s unique sense of humor makes the podcast entertaining. They say that part of choosing a good guest is finding somebody that can laugh at themselves.

“The initial brainstorm was sitting in here going, ‘OK, who lives here? Who has a connection to UA? Who would be in-

Photos by Tyler Kirkendall

Upper Arlington city manager and city attorney show their true selves on biweekly podcast

teresting?’ and it’s fascinating for me because we have some big names who are interesting to talk to, and then some of the names I didn’t know I’m like, ‘Wow, this is somebody who’s really cool,’” Hedge says.

Some of the “big names” include The Ohio State University men’s basketball head coach Chris Holtmann and Jeni’s Ice Cream founder Jeni Britton Bauer.

It has become a running joke on the podcast that Schoeny brings all the guests to the mic.

“I didn’t even book my own dad. And he was a guest,” Shulman says.

Gary Shulman was a surprise guest on the podcast for Shulman’s birthday, creating a sweet moment on air as they had not seen each other since the outbreak of COVID-19.

Interpersonal chemistry and a friendly, humble disposition are key features of why the podcast works.

“It’s almost like two brothers from my perspective,” Hedge says. “That’s what does it, is you have two guys with similar interests, who actually like each other, on a common mission and it works.”

Shulman and Schoeny are constantly poking fun at one another on the podcast. Shulman says they have a good sense of knowing whose turn it is to talk and a subconscious awareness of how to steer the conversation together.

Spontaneity is another element of the podcast that the pair cherishes and that they take quite seriously.

“We’ve had a couple of guests be like, ‘OK, what kind of questions are you gonna ask?’” Shulman says. “Well, first of all, we don’t prep like that, so we don’t know. And secondly, we don’t want you to prepare stuff, we want to get it in the conversation.”

“There’s been so many times where someone has said something that blew our minds that I don’t want to ruin it,” Shulman says. “After you’ve blown our minds you can’t blow our minds again.”

Shulman and Schoeny pull from a wide range of interests, from sports to superheroes, to help them poke around and find the topics that will help guests open up and share their personalities.

The title is clearly inspired by, though legally different enough from, Shulman says, Mister Rogers’ famous song and invitation, “won’t you be my neighbor?”

The pair don cardigans over their office clothes for the thumbnail image of each episode, setting the welcoming and warm tone of the series.

They even designed T-shirts, which Shulman says are inspired by stadium rock tour apparel of the ’80s. The shirt design is tongue-in-cheek, as they display an Upper Arlington water tower standing tall over a city being destroyed by a giant monster.

“Because how can you have a rock tour T-shirt without Godzilla on it?” Shulman says.

While the podcast sets out to brighten listeners’ days and acts as a fun way to get to know city representatives, Schoeny and Shulman use it to progress the city’s mission.

“Our overall purpose is making government work for its residents so that they’re not worried about stuff that should just happen if government functions well,” Schoeny says.

Shulman adds that since he joined the staff in 2020, there has never been a time when he has been told to work a certain way “because that’s the way it’s been done.”

“I hope the podcast is a little bit of an example of this, that Upper Arlington is a city that’s not afraid to take a new idea, batter it around for a while and see if we can make something work from it,” Schoeny says. “So the fact that the two of us are willing to get on a podcast and talk about the intersection of string theory, Marvel Comics and Harry & Meghan with an Episcopal priest, that should, I hope, be a symbol to people that we’re willing to take risks and try things that are different.”

You can catch Schoeny and Shulman on Won’t You Be Our Neighbor on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and more, as well as on www.upperarlingtonoh.gov.

If you enjoy the podcast, you can email them at fanmail@uaoh.gov. If you don’t, you can email them at hatemail@uaoh.gov, too!

Tyler Kirkendall is an editor at CityScene Media Group. Feedback welcome at tkirkendall@cityscenemediagroup.com.

Schoeny (left) and Shulman (right)

By Rachel Karas

New Grand View

Grandview Heights schools reopen new and updated buildings for spring semester

The Grandview community has waited patiently for updates to its school buildings since passing a nearly $55 million bond levy back in 2018.

Over the past five years, the district has been hard at work renovating Stevenson Elementary and Grandview Heights High School, as well as building a new Larson Middle School.

Stevenson saw some major improvements to wheelchair accessibility as well as safety with a ramped walkway near the entrance and a new vestibule.

The new middle school is attached to the high school and both student bodies now benefit from wider hallways, more open classrooms and various other renovations throughout.

With construction finally complete, Grandview students and staff were welcomed back into their new and improved schools in January. Administrators say the renovated and reimagined buildings will offer new opportunities for students.

Building changes

While Stevenson saw perhaps the least outward changes, Larson Middle and Grandview Heights High schools look completely different from the dark and out-of-date buildings they were before.

Most classrooms now have outwardfacing windows to help brighten up the classrooms, making them more inviting and conducive to learning.

Students will also notice that the classrooms are much more open. With collapsible walls and large, glass, garage-style doors near classroom entrances, teachers now have the flexibility to open up their classroom space to conjoining rooms.

“The teachers have already begun to utilize the collaborative spaces,” chief technology officer Chris Deis says. “The teachers either have the garage doors open or they’re sending students out in the collaborative spaces and leveraging those spaces so they’re not as confined.”

The hallways themselves are also more spacious after the schools removed the lockers. This not only makes the school look more inviting, but also more wheelchair accessible.

Just steps away from the high school gym sits the new middle school gym, both of which share a concession stand that is easily accessible for games and activities.

Photos courtesy of Grandview Heights Schools

Athletes, families and visitors can use the nearby middle school commons area, located on the first floor of the building like both gyms.

Other new shared spaces include a resource desk where students and teachers can visit throughout the school day if they need technical support for electronic devices such as laptops and tablets.

Several of the bathrooms around both schools were renovated to include boys, girls and gender-inclusive restrooms, as well as private staff restrooms. Each bay has individual and private locking pods with a common sink area that provides accessibility and privacy to students.

Although there are many shared spaces, administrators made sure to pro-

vide separate cafeterias and restrooms for middle and high school students.

Each classroom’s technology has received a significant upgrade as well by way of bigger, newer screens and newly wired sound systems. This isn’t just for the sake of making classrooms more modern, but to make classrooms more accessible and welcoming to students with disabilities.

“In an older building, you have a lot of hodgepodge. … So everything’s different and you might know how to operate one room, but another room might be completely different,” Deis says. “It’s nice to have a clean slate so that everybody knows how to go into any room and basically operate.”

Positive effects

The changes to Grandview Heights school buildings aren’t just pleasing to look at. Chief academic officer for the district Angela Ullum says the schools’ restructures have educational benefits, too.

“We’re preparing our kids for the jobs of tomorrow and all of those jobs are about critical thinking, collaborating, be-

Superintendent Andy Culp speaks to the crowd gathered at the opening ceremony.

One of the renovated classrooms, showcasing the new windows and technology.

ing able to communicate,” Ullum says. “And so, being able to say to a group of students, ‘Hey, you are gonna go, and you’re going to work on this project, and (we) have a space where everyone can sit together and work on it.’”

Having a joint, collaborationfocused building also increases student learning time, Ullum says, as it cuts down the time students need to travel between classrooms. It also eliminates the need for students to leave the building when they are taking higher-level classes, increasing student safety.

And teachers will benefit, too. Those who teach classes at both high and middle school levels no longer need to travel between buildings and instead can walk across the hall.

The attached building has also made it easier to hold meetings between teachers of different grade levels, allowing for more cohesive lesson planning and bridging gaps in student learning.

Ullum says the close proximity has also increased collaboration between teachers, making it easier to teach joint lessons and connect with one another.

“It’s really great for our staffs because they’re also seeing each other more often,”

offer more space for students to collaborate.

Ullum says. “They’re able to ask questions to each other more often. It has just created more camaraderie among two schools that used to be separate.”

The renovated classrooms

Photos courtesy of Grandview Heights Schools

Future of Grandview

While all major construction projects were completed prior to the spring semester, there are some smaller projects that administrators say are yet to come.

One such projects is the personalization of the school itself. The school walls were given a fresh coat of paint, but an unfortunate side effect meant painting over colorful student-created murals that made the school unique. But the walls

won’t be without student art for long.

To bring back the history of the school –and to add to it – Ullum says high school Principal Sam Belk has already begun working with his student advisory group to brainstorm ways to bring art back to the school in a way that honors its past and allows for future growth.

“It’s exciting for the students who get to be the first students to attend the new Grandview Heights High School, but it’s not. It has a tradition,” Deis says. “There’s a tradition there. But they get to then take it into their own direction.”

Rachel Karas is an editor at CityScene Media Group. Feedback welcome at rkaras@cityscenemediagroup.com.

Large doors in classrooms allow teachers to open up their rooms.

Banding Together

Grandview Heights band tradition continues after 70 years

Looking to get into the high-stakes game of musical chairs? Are you hoping to put your skills toward a good cause? Look no further than the Grandview Heights Band Parents Association’s (GHBPA) annual Cake Walk fundraiser.

Dot Keil, president of GHBPA, and Grandview Heights City School District band members are gearing up for their 74th Cake Walk fundraiser in April. The GHBPA is the largest booster organization in Grandview that works year-round to raise money in support of Grandview band students in grades 5-12.

“It’s one of our biggest fundraisers and probably the most fun,” Keil says. “As a long (standing) member of the Grandview community, I can tell you it’s bigger than just the band and it’s something the whole community looks forward to.”

Since 1948, the annual Cake Walk fundraiser has been a sweet success in

the Grandview community. It helps the GHHS band subsidize the cost of high school band camp, uniforms and instruments, while also funding scholarships

and other costs associated with the music programs.

“The last two years, we’ve been able to send our students off-site to some

Don’t miss the first Cake Walk at the renovated Grandview Heights High School on April 14 at 6:30 p.m.

really exciting music concerts,” Keil says. “Last year, we sent every band student to the marching band youth concert at Ohio State, we’re bringing in guest artists, and we help to support our students who go for solo and ensemble contests.”

The event is as simple as it sounds. Purchase a ticket for the chance to walk in one of the five “cake rings” (a circle of chairs with a number on each). Once the Grandview band starts playing, everyone walks around the ring until the music stops.

When it does, the master of ceremonies draws a number and the lucky winner walks out with a cake.

In addition to the cake rings, the GHBPA includes other activities like face painting, a silent auction and a cake decorating contest with prizes awarded in three categories: Most Bobcat Spirit, Most Creative and Most Musical. One of the most memorable was a pandemicthemed cake, Keil says.

“Over the years we’ve had really beautiful cakes along with some wild and crazy ones,” she says. “They’re different every year, so each year you come, you get to see the creativity that people have come up with.”

After long winter days and nights, the Grandview community views the Cake Walk as an invitation to the season of spring and a staple event for residents. It’s an invitation that keeps on coming, even after 70 years.

“I think there are a number of things that have kept the longevity of it,” Keil says. “Usually, it’s the first public event of the spring, so it’s an easy night where people can come and go as they want while also being able to see their friends and hang out a bit.”

The Cake Walk is open to all, with a $1 entrance fee per person. This year, the fundraiser will take place on April 14 at 6:30 p.m. in the renovated Grandview Heights High School.

Custom Kitchen Comfort

Kitchen and bathroom makeover adds personality to Upper Arlington home

As longtime residents in Upper Arlington’s scenic suburbs, Nancy and Denny Hoobler have called their street home for over 24 years. The Hooblers have cherished their time in their longtime home, but after all these years raising a family there, it was time to refresh and begin a new chapter.

“It was just old,” Nancy Hoobler says. “We had really done nothing to the kitchen for our 24 years.”

The initial idea for a home remodel came about in 2015, but at the time, was a distant dream. The plan was brought to life in 2019, but as COVID-19 hit, the

Hooblers’ goals were once again pushed back. Finally, in the fall of 2022, the family had had enough of their broken cabinet doors and outdated appliances. They decided it was time to initiate the process.

Luckily, at the recommendation of local family friends, the Hooblers found Steller Construction.

“We had Steller come in and we fell in love with them,” Hoobler says.

Once the match had been made, Steller immediately got to work. One of the main focuses was the galley kitchen, which needed more space and modern-

ization. By removing soffits and replacing the former rickety cabinets with ones spanning the ceiling, Steller maximized kitchen space while adding a fresh feel to the environment.

In addition to the new cabinets, an unnecessary prep sink was removed in order to create space for a central figure of the renovation: a thick quartz countertop. This surface adds an accent of elegance to the space while adhering to the spatial needs for new appliances.

Although the fresh appliances were a necessary and much-appreciated addition, given the positioning of the new oven,

clearance was necessary when installing the counter and range top. Steller Construction recognized this demand and recommended the quartz material.

This not only fixed spacing issues, but it added aesthetic appeal. Stunning crown molding, ornate paneling and enhanced lighting fixtures were installed to make the space look brilliant.

The white countertops and cabinets are complemented by a subtle shade of blue on the walls. This color decision was relatively simple for Hoobler, with the guidance of project manager Cassie Tackett. The pair made joint decisions

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throughout the process, but not all choices came so easily.

“She saved the hardest for last, and it was the floor,” Hoobler says.

The decision between authentic hardwood flooring or luxury vinyl plank, a durable alternative, was a tough one. However, they ultimately opted for true hardwood. With the choice to use genuine, natural material, the flooring boasts a timeless beauty that coincides perfectly with the sleek counters.

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This flooring is also featured in the refurbished half-bathroom, nestled alongside the kitchen. Within this half-bath is a beautiful elliptical mirror hanging above a refurbished sink, joined by ornate lighting. Deciding on these statement pieces was a tricky process for the homeowners, but luckily, their great relationship with Tackett alleviated the stress of this task.

“Cassie, knowing me so well and knowing that I would be stressing, called me later and asked me if I would like help picking out a mirror,” Hoobler says. “I immediately said yes.”

Tough decisions for bathroom features were not the only time the seamless partnership between the Hooblers and Steller Construction came in handy. This close-knit bond was a crucial factor for the success of this renovation project, as it made the nearly daunting home construction process painless for the couple.

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meant, oh my god, they’re leaving me!” Hoobler says. “I didn’t think it was going to be this easy.”

Thanks to the work of Steller Construction and the passion of Nancy and her husband to restore their home, the Hoobler home renovation project was a breathtaking success. With freshly painted walls and flooring in the living room, dining room and family room, joined by the complete renovation of their kitchen and half-bath, the Hooblers have created an environment that reflects their identity.

“This is my personality, Denny’s personality,” Hoobler says. “It’s more us.”

With this home restoration, the Hooblers will no longer fight with broken cabinets or stuffy kitchen space. Instead, they can reside blissfully in a home that mirrors their likeness.

Megan Brokamp is an editorial assistant at CityScene Media Group. Feedback welcome at feedback@ cityscenemediagroup.com.

By Claire Miller

Tupelo’s Top Chop

Tupelo Honey executive chef shares his story and a pork chop recipe

Photo by Claire MIller

It all started with a love of cooking.  Raymone Hogue has worked his way up from the bottom of the kitchen food chain to his current position as the executive chef at the new Upper Arlington location of Tupelo Honey.

The Buffalo, New York, native started his food career as a dishwasher and continued to be promoted until he was in management, opening restaurants all over the United States.

With Tupelo Honey, he has been there since day one, when it opened the first location in Ohio late last year. He hired all the staff, with whom he is close-knit, and emphasizes working together.

“Just seeing how we’ve come together so far, coming together as a team, not losing a lot of people and you know, just holding that standard and holding an operation of excellence and I really feel good about it,” Hogue says. “We take pride in this amazing food that comes out of the kitchen and make sure it’s hot, fresh and ready every day.”

Hogue says Tupelo is unique for its Southern style and comfort food. Tupelo’s signature dishes – like its biscuits and jam, shrimp and grits, mac and cheese, and fried chicken – are being embraced by the Columbus crowd.

“Us bringing that culture to them is opening up the hearts of everyone,” Hogue says.

Try whipping up a dish straight off the Tupelo menu at home, including grits with goat cheese.

Claire Miller is an editor at CityScene Media Group. Feedback welcome at cmiller@cityscenemediagroup.com.

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RECIPES

Southern Bone-In Pork Chop

Ingredients

• 8 oz. pork chop

• 1 oz. canola oil

• 2 tsp. salt

• 1 tsp. black pepper

• 4 fl. oz. goat cheese grits

• 2.5 wt. oz. blanched broccolini

• 2 wt. oz. bacon jam, hot

• ½ tsp. chives, minced

Method

• Coat pork chop in oil and season with salt and pepper.

• Grill on both sides, marking chop with cross-hatch grill marks for about 6-8 minutes or until internal temperature reaches 155 degrees.

• Allow the chop to rest for 3-5 minutes.

• Meanwhile, place whole broccolini on a cooler spot on the grill. Allow it to heat up without charring or getting hard grill marks.

Assembly

• Ladle the grits onto the center of the plate.

• Place the grilled broccolini over the center of the grits.

• Lay the pork chop across the top of the broccoli with the bone pointing up.

• Top the pork chop with the bacon jam.

• Garnish with chives.

Blanched Broccolini

Ingredients

• Broccolini

• Salt

Method

• In a large stock pot, bring 4 quarts of salted water to a boil. Ensure you have enough water for broccolini to move around in pot.

• While waiting for water to boil, gather your ice bath. Fill a 6-inch-deep hotel pan with ice and water. Place a 4-inch perforated pan into the 6-inch hotel pan. Ensure you have enough ice water in pan to completely cover the broccolini.

• Once water is boiling, add broccolini.

• Cook for 4-6 minutes or until bright green and tender.

• Remove from pot and shock in ice bath. Remove as soon as chilled, draining well.

Bacon Jam

Ingredients

• ½ pound bacon ends and pieces, cut as best you can into ¼ inch pieces

• 2 cups red onion, remove ends, peel, and slice in half. Then cut each half into strips

• ¼ cup brown sugar

• ¼ cup water

• ¼ cup cider vinegar

• ¼ cup brewed coffee

Method

• In a heavy bottom pan, add bacon and render out the bacon until crispy.

• Add onion and cook until tender, about 4-6 minutes.

• Add remaining ingredients, bring to a boil. Once boiling, reduce heat to a simmer and cook for 5 minutes.

• Store in an airtight container under refrigeration.

Goat Cheese Grits

Ingredients

• 3 cups water

• 1 tsp. sea salt

• 1 ¼ cups grits

• 1 tbsp. butter

• 2 tbsp. cream

• 4 oz. goat cheese

Method

• In a heavy saucepan, bring the water and salt to a boil over high heat.

• Stir in the grits and butter and bring back to a boil.

• Add the cream and decrease the heat to low, simmering for about 10 minutes, or until the mixture is creamy and thick.

• Remove the pan from the stove and whisk in the goat cheese until melted.

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The average sale price of a home in Upper Arlington was $513K last month, up 18.5% since last year. The average sale price per square foot in Upper Arlington is $236, down 6.2% since 2021.

The average sale price of a home in Grandview Heights was $553K in December 2022, up 47.9% higher than last year. The average sale price per square foot in Grandview Heights is $276, up 9.5% since 2021. (Data from Redfin)

4400 Squirrel Bend Rd. 8 beds, 7 baths

$1,200,000 Sold on 1/10/22

2310 Tremont Rd. 3 beds, 2.5 baths

$959,000 Sold on 12/15/22

1117 Wyandotte Rd. 3 beds, 2.5 baths

$902,700 Sold on 12/22/22

1920 Chatfield Rd. 3 beds, 2.5 baths

$837,000 Sold on 1/23/23

1943 W. Lane Ave. 4 beds, 2.5 baths

$811,000 Sold on 1/18/23

2005 Wyandotte Rd. 3 beds, 2.5 baths

$750,000 Sold on 12/6/22

1450 Berkshire Rd. 4 beds, 3 baths

$742,000 Sold on 12/12/22

2511 Brandon Rd. 4 beds, 2.5 baths

$739,000 Sold on 12/14/22

1389 Glenn Ave. 4 beds, 2.5 baths

$710,000 Sold on 12/22/22

Book reviews from Chelsea Weissman from Grandview Heights Public Library

Your Nose: A Wild Little Love Song

by Sandra Boynton (ages 0-3)

This fun, cute and singable board book is based on the song of the same title from Boynton’s Blue Moon album from 2008, sung by Neil Sedaka. Illustrations start with a fox parent admiring their child’s angel eyes, but they really love... their nose!

Throughout the book, there are fun little “boops” and other animals like hippos, birds, mice, platypuses, pigs, rabbits, all admiring the noses of their children.

We All Play:

Kimêtawânaw

by Julie Flett (ages 2-5)

Simple text and beautiful illustrations in this picture book show the bond between children and nature, and how we are all connected. All kinds of critters sniff and sneak, slip and slide, and rumble and roll, which is like kids playing. The refrain “we play too!” is written in English as well as in Cree, a North American Indigenous language. A list of the animals from the story translated into Plains Cree, as well as a simple explanation of how to pronounce the consonants and vowels. A translation of the three phrases used throughout the story is presented at the end of the book.

Just Dance

by Patricia MacLachlan (grades 2-4)

By the author of the famous Sara, Plain and Tall, this early chapter book tells the story of a 10-yearold girl named Sylvie Bloom who lives on a farm in Wyoming. She is curious why her mother traded away her life as a successful opera singer in London to marry Sylvie’s father and worries she and her family have held her mother back from a more exciting life. Sylvie also has a knack for writing and her teacher encourages her to take over a column in the newspaper about all the important events in their town. Through her writing and various other events, Sylvie learns a lot about life, love and her place in the world.

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Deep Blue

by Jennifer Donnelly (grades 5-7)

The first of the “Waterfire Saga” series tells the story of Serafina, who is the teenage mermaid daughter of the queen, Isabella, and the heir to the throne. A premonition that Serafina must be one of six other mermaids to save the sea turns out to be true when her realm is invaded, and her mother is wounded. She and her best friend, Neela, go on a journey to find the other mermaids so they can work together to save the seas. They meet a lot of interesting characters on the way and solve mysteries. In addition to the fun, fantasy backdrop to this story, there are also many strong female characters. All the mermaids have strong but different personalities and there is not a lot of focus on a love story even though Serafina is in love with her betrothed. There are simply too many other conflicts happening in the story that take priority.

Everlost

by Neal Shusterman (grades 7-12)

Two teenagers, Nick and Allie, are killed in a car accident at the beginning of the story. Their souls are stuck between life and death, in a place known as Everlost. This place is only for kids under age 15 and the two are now known as afterlights. This new place they have found themselves in is a shadow of Earth and there are specific places ghosts can walk; otherwise, they’ll sink into the earth. Nick and Allie don’t know what to do, so a longtime Everlost resident named Leif, whom they met upon their arrival, joins them on a journey back to New York City, where there are many ghost kids living in Twin Towers. A girl named Mary Hightower oversees all the kids and turns out to be an intriguing villain, whom Nick is in love with and Allie doesn’t trust. There are a lot of obstacles and dangers (like monsters and gang “afterlights”) in Everlost and interesting presentations on identity. As the characters evolve, Nick discovers a way to help the “afterlights” and becomes Mary’s arch-nemesis. This trilogy provides welldeveloped characters and an engaging take on a world of what life after death might look like.

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