The Bellevue Gazette

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.

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

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. Baughman, Abraham J. (1909). History of Huron County, Ohio: Its Progress and Development, Vol. 1. Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Company. p. 191.
  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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