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A Columbus woman is thankful to be alive after she was shot in the head while waiting at a traffic light last Monday.

Restaurant openings, closings and more Central Ohio food and drink news

Original Rush Creek home in Worthington for sale after major renovations Jim Weiker, The Columbus Dispatch The most important house in one of the most important neighborhoods in central Ohio had water running through it when the current owners purchased it in 2014. Water pipes had broken in the home, along with sewer lines and the hot water tank. It was a sorry state for a house that launched one of central Ohios most distinctive communities.  The home was completed by Marth...

Water pipes had broken in the home, along with sewer lines and the hot water tank. It was a sorry state for a house that launched one of central Ohios most distinctive communities.  The home was completed by Martha and Richard Wakefield in 1957 and served as the inspiration for what would become Rush Creek Village in Worthington, which grew to become the nations largest collection of homes in the style of Frank Lloyd Wrights "organic" architecture. The 2,629-square-foot home conveys all the f...

The iconic orange neon sign that graced Tee Jayes restaurant and Jerrys Drive-In at North High Street and Morse Road are among nine sites on Columbus Landmarks annual "most endangered" landmarks list this year. The sign received the most nominations from the public this year, said Becky West, Columbus Landmarks executive director. "Its really a touchstone for people who grew up in the neighborhood, and people who are just traveling through" West said. Theres also a nostalgia factor, she said...

Restaurant openings, closings and more Central Ohio food and drink news

In a nutshell, What the Waffle sells food that is fun to eat for terrific prices. Examine that shell, though, and you will discover that What the Waffle is newsworthy for numerous other reasons, too. Although it’s a compact operation that serves only takeout food, What the Waffle — which opened last summer amid widespread protests prompted by the killing of George Floyd — offers an impactful interior enlivened by the work of artist Adriane McMillon. McMillon’s skillful contributions inc...

Customers continued to file into Tee Jayes Country Place at the corner of North High Street and Morse Road late Friday morning, even after the breakfast rush has typically ended. A quaint dining room lined with wood-paneled walls and unpretentious décor had sparse seating thanks to coronavirus restrictions that requires tables to be spaced at least 6 feet apart — a line of chairs in front of a counter at the north end of the dining room was covered in white paper to keep customers from si...

As usual, the winners of Joe’s Mildly Entertaining Easter Egg hunt proved harder to fool than I expected. A Laotian Buddhist shrine tucked into an East Side neighborhood? They knew it. Two virtually identical statues of an aviator? They located the right one. The 16th annual contest challenged readers to decipher rhyming riddles pointing to the location of imaginary eggs. The winners of the always competitive early-bird prize are Steve Huggins, 54, of Bexley, and his daughter, Betsy, a 22-ye...

I speak of the big red arrow at North High Street and Morse Road. “A beacon for the community,” says Paul Da Silva, who celebrates it and other neon masterpieces in photos at columbusneon.blogspot.com and on Instagram. I asked him for his thoughts on the arrow sign after news broke this month that Tee Jaye’s, the restaurant it so emphatically advertises, would close in May after 29 years. (The company will still have seven other Tee Jaye’s restaurants in central Ohio.) Da Silva sees th...