‘Seussical’ a fun yet meaningful show


Director Justin Nawman and the students of Thomas Worthington High School present Seussical the Musical for three nights, Feb. 17-19, on the main stage at Thomas. The show will begin at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets cost $15 per person and are available for purchase beginning Feb. 13 on the TWHS Theater […]

Eagle Family Group makes birthdays happier for others


As part of its Eagle Family Groups program, Evening Street Elementary School put together birthday bags to donate to the Worthington Resource Pantry in January. “We were talking in our groups with the kids about the fact not every child has a birthday cake,” said Principal Mary Rykowski. “When the kids heard that, they wanted to help.” Rykowski led the […]

Perry student pursues passion for weather


Perry Middle School seventh grader Selah McGillibray serves as the school’s weatherperson during Student News broadcasts. However, it’s a tale as old as time – at least as old as the establishment of middle school. Sometimes kids can be mean. Such was the case for McGillibray when she decided to put herself out there and become the first weatherperson on […]

Professor set us on path of learning


In college, I told people I wanted to be a journalist, but the idea mostly terrified me. The first assignment in my first news-writing class didn’t help: We were supposed to write our own obituaries. Fortunately, the professor – a wild-haired, frenetic man with an impish gleam in his eye – assured us we could make it as big a […]

Thomas Worthington Gymnastics 2023

As another newspaper closes, we all are losing

Here’s a new twist on an age-old question, retooled for the 21st century: If yet another newspaper falls in the woods, but few people are reading, does it make a sound? To me it is a thunderous noise as a cornerstone of our democracy crumbles even further. I must admit I have had mixed feelings about the demise of the […]

Worthington Spotlight, February 2023