| The Bellevue Gazette | |
| Type: | Biweekly newspaper |
| Format: | Broadsheet |
| Foundation: | , as Bellevue Gazette, and Huron, Seneca, Erie and Sandusky Advertiser |
| Ceased Publication: | June 1, 2016 |
| Owners: | Civitas Media |
| Editor: | Amber Hatten |
| Circulation: | 2,460 daily in 2007[1] |
| Headquarters: | 212 W. Main Street, Bellevue, Ohio 44811, |
| Oclc: | 11035646 |
| Website: | thebellevuegazette.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.
First appearing as a short-lived weekly newspaper in 1851,[2] 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.[1]
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]