The Bellevue Gazette
TypeBiweekly newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Civitas Media
EditorAmber Hatten
Founded1851 (1851), as Bellevue Gazette, and Huron, Seneca, Erie and Sandusky Advertiser[1]
Ceased publicationJune 1, 2016
Headquarters212 W. Main Street,
Bellevue, Ohio 44811, United States
Circulation2,460 daily in 2007[2]
OCLC number11035646
Websitethebellevuegazette.com

The Bellevue Gazette was an American bi-weekly newspaper published Wednesdays and Saturdays in Bellevue, Ohio from 1851 to 2016. It was owned by Civitas Media, a subsidiary of Versa Capital Management.

History

First appearing as a short-lived weekly newspaper in 1851,[1] The Bellevue Gazette was published continuously since being refounded in October 1867,[3] and daily since 1899, originally as The Bellevue Record, then The Evening Gazette, before adopting the name Bellevue Gazette in 1906.[4]

For more than a century, The Bellevue Gazette was the flagship of The Gazette Publishing Company, a chain that also included eight weeklies across Northwestern Ohio. The company, owned by the Callaghan family, was sold to Brown Publishing Company of Cincinnati in 2007.[2]

Brown declared bankruptcy and was reconstituted as Ohio Community Media in 2010.[5] The company, including The Bellevue Gazette, was purchased for an undisclosed sum in 2011 by Philadelphia-based Versa Capital Management.[6]

On June 1, 2016, the Bellevue Gazette published its final addition after Civitas Media announced both the Bellevue paper and the Clyde Enterprise would be shuttered.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 Baughman, Abraham J. (1909). History of Huron County, Ohio: Its Progress and Development, Vol. 1. Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Company. p. 191.
  2. 1 2 "Gazette Publishing Agrees to Sell to Brown Publishing". DirksVanEssen.com. September 28, 2007. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  3. ↑ "About The Bellevue Gazette". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  4. ↑ "About The Evening Gazette". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  5. ↑ Sanctis, Matt (September 3, 2010). "Court Approves Brown Sale of Assets". Springfield News-Sun. Springfield, Ohio. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  6. ↑ Staff report (May 20, 2011). "Local Newspapers Under New Ownership". Springfield News-Sun. Springfield, Ohio. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  7. ↑ Civitas Media (May 31, 2016). "Gazette closing its doors". Bellevue Gazette. Bellevue, Ohio. Retrieved August 8, 2016.


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