BP owner proposes new look for Hayes birthplace

Former U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes was not born at a gas station, and one downtown Delaware business owner is attempting to correct that misconception.

Former U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes was not born at a gas station, and one downtown Delaware business owner is attempting to correct that misconception.

The man who discovered that man-made chemicals could destroy the ozone layer has died at the age of 84.
The Delaware community lost a longtime business owner and lifetime Delaware supporter when Dale Bargar, owner of Bargar Jewelry in downtown Delaware, died this week.

Secession threatened to permanently divide the nation in 1861. During the five-year Civil War there were 1.1 million casualties and 620,000 deaths as both sides fought to maintain their way of life. To honor those who fought on both sides and to show the effect of battle on Ohioans, the Rosecrans Headquarters Unit, a Civil War re-enactment group based at the Myers Inn on Sunbury Village Square, is sponsoring a Civil War re-enactment and Living History Pageant in Sunbury on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.